The design concept for Cody was born from a casual encounter with a video game that featured an environmental puzzle. The font’s creation process, akin to the translation and decipherment of several ciphers, relies on the order of the letters in the English alphabet. Each Cody is comprised of thee concentric, incomplete circles. These circles, starting from the innermost, rotates 45 degrees clockwise as the letter sequence progresses. Once the first circle completes a full rotation, the next one takes its turn, and so on. Drawing influences from various sources, such as Morse Code, maritime flags, and Braille, Cody marks the inception of the designer’s journey into enigmatic scripts. Speculatype (2017) is a book that presents the designer’s typographic explorations with Latin letterforms with in-depth case studies and information about the inspiration and process behind them. (The book is displayed near the gallery’s ramp, next to Spencer’s project, Hiero.)