Fevzi Yazici is the award-winning former design director of Zaman, the daily newspaper in Istanbul. In 2016, after an abortive coup, 47 journalists from Zaman were arrested and accused of complicity. Yazici and his colleagues were convicted, and the newspaper was closed. His life sentence was later reduced to eleven years, which he is still serving. Held in the notorious Silivri prison, 90 kilometers from Istanbul, Fevzi designed a Victorian typeface with a pencil in his dimly lit solitary-confinement cell and named it Firdevs for his wife. The drawings were digitized by Dyana Weissman, Type Network’s custom type director, and Firdevs is now available from Dyana’s foundry, Kerns & Cairns.
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