THE STORY BEHIND THE LETTERS
My name is Josephine, I am 23 years old, and I have always been afraid of words.
At eight years old, my parents started to worry: something wasn't right, I wasn't reacting like other children my age. It was at nine that I was diagnosed with dyslexia. A word already so complex to write, and even harder to understand when you're a child. I felt like an outsider in a world that didn't understand my way of thinking, and I couldn't read it.
I hid my dyslexia for a long time. I didn't accept it. Until this year, it scared me, it controlled me. I spent years running from other people's gaze, avoiding their judgments, pretending to be like them, hoping that no one would notice my difficulties.
Today, I write to you from the heart. With the certainty that little ten-year-old Josephine, lost and discouraged, was wrong to believe she would never succeed. Being dyslexic isn't easy. It requires more work, more discipline, more perseverance. Thanks to my creativity, I've learned to no longer fear letters. I now see them as living forms, malleable designs with which I can play, create, and invent. My dyslexia no longer defines me; it reveals me. It gives me the power to see differently, to think differently, to transform constraint into freedom.
Dyscover was born from a personal story, from a need that became a project.
For my degree in Art Direction from Penninghen, I chose to dedicate my final thesis to dyslexia, a subject that had long remained private. This work, which was awarded the highest distinction, marked a turning point: it was from this that Dyscover was born.
I met dyslexics of all ages, collected their stories, and photographed how they perceive letters and words. This human and visual exploration allowed me to understand the richness of our different ways of learning.
So I created a modular typography designed to facilitate learning, to stabilize shapes, to reassure the eye, to give confidence.
A colorful, playful, vibrant typography that transforms the page into a playground rather than an ordeal.
Dyscover is:
A bridge between the world I had to tame and the one I wish to offer to children.
A place where every letter becomes a friend, a landmark, a source of strength.
A space where difference is no longer an obstacle, but a path.