In June 2014, the clock atop Bolivia’s Congress building in La Paz was reconfigured to run anti-clockwise. The change was described as a symbol of decolonisation for Indigenous Aymara and Quechua peoples, and a logical expression of southernness.

It’s 2020. I’m sitting at my dining table in London crying, and Lyson is holding me. I’m trying to find the energy to continue drawing ABC ROM.

It seems that however state institutions enact power, a bureaucratic arsenal of documents is deployed—a kind of performance in which a cast of Latin typefaces naturally and dutifully inscribe the state’s claims to a standard of incontestable legibility. This sense of legibility (of bodies, natural resources, land) is broader than the clarity of letterforms on a page, but the need for typographic legibility pervades attempts to establish any novel unit of legibility..