Toxische Pommes – Ein schönes Ausländerkind at Volksbühne poster
In April 2024, satirist Toxische Pommes came to Berlin to read from her debut novel Ein schönes Ausländerkind (“The perfect immigrant child”). From Volksbühne:
When the corona pandemic started, Toxische Pommes was in the process of coming to terms with leaving a toxic relationship with the help of the Chinese surveillance app TikTok. The satirical videos on various social and political issues resulted in the cabaret show Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar. […] A family escapes to a country that doesn’t want to be a country of immigration. The book is about a daughter, whose sole purpose is set on becoming an ultra-integrated immigrant, and her father, who ends by losing himself in the process.
The posters advertising the event were designed by LSD, specialists for using unusual and provocative fonts. For Toxische Pommes, they dug up Mystery Caps. This novelty typeface is comprised of guts, tongues, and other body parts. Its designer is unknown to me. The earliest appearance I’m aware of is in the 1970 catalog by Lettergraphics. Read more about it in a previously posted Use.
The specific font in use is Grog Caps, Traitor Vic’s 2009 digitization based on and named after a showing by Dan X. Solo in Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts from 1978. The typeface is printed in two colors, with some parts of its letterforms filled in. Small text is added in a wide(ned) style of Compacta.
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