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Some funky typography this week, with work from Jakarta, Montréal, and Oslo. Kyō by Andrea Reza Kyō is a family-owned coffee shop located in a residential neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, with dine-in options, pastries, and, naturally, coffee. The identity, designed by local designer Andrea Reza, revolves around an unconventional, lovingly-textured wordmark that is quite unique. Placing the bottom of the ascender of the “y” on the baseline is kind of a big short circuit in terms of traditional typography but I love how it’s so well balanced thanks to the diacritic macron over the “o”, making all three letters line up at the top and bottom. Even if the “y” had been placed where it normally goes, the construction of the letters is quite nice. In s