Typetalk, developed by Amy Papaelias for her MFA Thesis Project,  combines type design and sociolinguistic theory to visually represent social and cultural speech variatations. Based on these variations, the fonts take on their own personalities and behaviours, creating a relationship between the formal elements of handwriting and the contextual variants of language. This project explores type as a site for visualisation of language within its cultural context. One font "Sugar and Spice", replaces curse words with 'nicer' alternatives, replicating the speech of a nine year old girl. For example, "He's a fucking bastard" becomes "He's a really mean boy". Others include a font based on a shy teenage male, a stereotypical french woman, and a five year old child. The typefaces utilise OpenType ligature features to combine strings of letters into pre-determined words, in this way the project subverts the aesthetic intention of ligatures for linguistic ones.