BORINQUENEERS DISPLAY
Borinqueneers is a bold condensed display typeface inspired by the 65th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, a unit composed of soldiers from Puerto Rico. Once segregated within the U.S. military, the regiment served honorably despite facing racism, discrimination, and even a wrongful court-martial, and was later awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2014. During the development of this typeface, I discovered that three members of my own family had served in the regiment, and today many of my relatives still serve in or work for the U.S. military.
Within In Between Worlds, Borinqueneers becomes a microcosm of the tension between serving a country that does not always fully accept or claim you. It anchors the project in the long arc of Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship to the United States and asks, quietly but directly, what it means to give loyalty, labor, and even life between two often opposing cultures.
DANIEL IRIZARRY
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