Century Odyssey is a body typeface designed for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Drawn on the basis of Century Old Style, Century Odyssey is an experimental typeface, with a library of contextual glyphs that weave through and subtly puncture the text; the typeface becoming a narrative in itself.
It works by setting the typefaces’ alternates and ligatures to linguistic, rather than graphic contexts, which then reveal themselves in specific phrases and words.
The typeface is showcased as a new edition of Ulysses. The edition features an introduction to the typeface attached to the front cover, becoming part exhaustive type specimen, part new edition of Ulysses.