Clinton Young Foundation website
The Clinton Young Foundation was first established in 2014 in the Netherlands with the target to raise public awareness of the legal case of Clinton Young who had wrongly been sentenced to death penalty in 2003. In 2020 the foundation officially opened a second office in Austin, Texas. In 2021 Clinton’s case was vacated by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and in 2022 he finally was released from jail on bond. While, after twenty years on death row, his case eventually found a good ending, the foundation broadens its scope and keeps on working for all those wrongfully convicted of capital murder in Texas.
The website featured in this post uses two typefaces: Blaze Type’s geometric sans-serif Area in its Extended cut for reading text and functional items – and Big Daily, a serif designed by Alaric Garnier as eye-catcher for the headlines. Published by Production Type, Big Daily was mainly inspired by small newspaper print. For the time being, Big Daily is available in its Short variant whose name-giving feature are the extremely short ascenders and descenders. Further declinations are in the pipeline, though. What makes the appeal of Big Daily are the pronounced yet sturdy stroke contrast and the swift dynamic of its Italics.
