Plan

Avoid Red Arrows was commissioned by the artist Ruth Sacks to develop a font that suits the specific requirements for Volapük, a constructed language developed by Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879. Volapük was intended to be an auxiliary language solving the problems of multi-international communication and commerce.

The typeface "Plan" references feather-drawn typefaces of the late 19th century, the time when Volapük was invented, but is constructed as the language is. "Plan" is the first Volapük ready font incorporating all additional characters that were conceived by Martin Schleyer.

The art work of Ruth Sacks is a piece of a legend written in Volapük, displayed as a series of posters  in the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art and also published in the advertising space of the Offenburger Tageblatt, a regional German newspaper that has been running since 1812.