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Grope Sans is a typeface designed by Bompas & Parr to accompany the UK launch of Grope Mountain. The fun, playful and tongue-in-cheek font graphically represents the experience of interacting with the climbing wall and was used in event signage, maps and hand-outs.

It was inspired by the inherent physicality of climbing and the voyeurism of climbing walls. The resulting font doesn’t shy away from the realities of sex and celebrates the primal interplay between hands and the body’s erogenous zones during sexual encounters. The cartoon-inspired graphic technique revels in the crude functionality of sexual interactions which typically involve digital manipulation.

The colours used in the typeface are matched from the bespoke holds used throughout the installation which were all cast from volunteers’ anatomies from the original show in New York in 2015.