Lateral is a contemporary superfamily that revolves around the notion of sideways expansion. Its name comes from the Latin lateralis, “to the side”. In topographical anatomy, this term is used to specify a relative position, or to relate structures spatially to one another. On the macro level, the concept becomes manifest in the vast range of styles – the widest width takes up more than five times as much space than the narrowest one. On the micro level, it’s revealed in how the glyphs are constructed.
