The Font
The designer, Garth Walker, took the graffiti found on the back of the doors of the Number 4 solitary confinement cells, the graffiti from the streets of Hillbrow, the handwriting of Justice Zak Yacoob – who quite significantly had never seen his own writing before because he has been blind since he was nine months old. He fused all this handwriting together, extending the idea of a court with no hierarchy – former prisoners, Hillbrow residents and judges were all on the same level in the creation of this unique font.
The graffiti on the back of the door in Number Four.
The Constitutional Court of South Africa: The first ten years
