The Perilous Fight is a three-volume music compilation released in February 2026 to support immigrant justice in the U.S. The compilation features work by over 70 artists, and was organized by Mike Horn of Seawind of Battery and Mike Mannix of Centripetal Force Records.

Proceeds from the first volume, Justice for All, go to the National Immigrant Justice Center. Proceeds from the second volume, We the People, go to the Minnesota-based Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. And proceeds from the third volume, United We Stand, go to Amnesty International USA.

The organizers describe the project best:

This is not an ordinary benefit compilation. The Perilous Fight is a collective statement of solidarity—a response to the escalating rhetoric, intimidation, and violence shaping daily life in communities across the country. The contributors are everyday Americans using music to speak out against cruelty, authoritarianism, and the atmosphere of fear fostered by the current administration. This first volume is largely instrumental. These are artists are expressing their voice through their instruments.

The album art was designed by Ian Branch and makes use of my Kuhlman typeface based on the cut-paper lettering of Roy Kuhlman. Branch created the illustration first, and then happened to stumble across the font and found its jagged edges and alternate forms to be a perfect fit for the aesthetic and message.

Community Justice Exchange offers If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure as a free PDF download in English and Spanish, “for generating abolitionist struggles against the construction and expansion of cages.” With art direction by Mon M, designer Noah Jodice combined his own illustrations, angular shapes, and muted photographs in a simple color palette. The hand-cut and collaged aesthetic of the imagery pairs well with the angular outlines of Cedar for display settings. Extended body text is set in Palatino, with Halyard Micro used for emphasis and callouts, and Halyard Display for negative text.

Noah writes on his site:

As a prison abolitionist, I’m quite proud of this project, both for its scope and its content. The resource is dense with hard-earned lessons from the anti-carceral organizing work of the No New Jails Network. We designed the resource for a breadth of readers and experiences, whether you spend two minutes with the text, two hours, or two weeks.

Uma luta que vem de dentro, do centro. The CBJC (Centro Brasileiro de Justiça Climática, English: Brazilian Center for Climate Justice) is an NGO that was born big and brings climate struggles to the forefront with a racial slant. Its construction opens up a space for dialog, bringing its versions closer together and putting everyone in the same place, with contemporary, powerful communication.

The identity that is born in the geometric peripheries connects narratives and expands worldviews, taking them beyond the limits of the border; the brand is sharp, powerful, raw, like its struggle, it needs to be seen and above all remembered. The humanity present in the composition provokes concerns about the realities of those who are victims, while at the same time empowering voices that are going to transform the now; we need to be attentive and strong, and this is a construction that is at the heart of this change.

The project won the People’s Choice award in the Brand Design and Social Impact Design categories at Brazil Design Awards 2024 and in the Branding Category at the Latin American Design Awards 2025.

According to their About page,

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

Since 2018, the EFF logo combines a custom drawn monogram with the name spelled out in caps from League Gothic. For text on the website, the EEF uses a mix of Montserrat, Merriweather and Josefin Sans.

Established in 2022, Freedom Grams is a not-for-profit initiative to end cannabis injustice in the United States. By selling weed in the exact amounts that got people incarcerated for possession, the organization aims to highlight this injustice to consumers who are legally purchasing that same quantity (and, obviously, not going to jail), with all proceeds going to the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit dedicated to cannabis-related criminal justice reform. The identity, packaging, and website are by Munich-based Moby Digg and feature LL Akkurat and LL Akkurat Mono.

Omnes is used for the logo of Global Rights for Women.

The non-profit lobbying organization headquartered in Minneapolis is active around the globe to advance laws, policies, and practice to create communities where women and girls can live free from violence. Since the launch in 2015, GRW’s visual communication is centered around the two-line logotype in Omnes Regular, with the two aligned O’s substituted by overlapping color dots. The motto “Justice for Victims of Violence” is added in Archer.

Monochrome version of the logo as used for a previous version of the website

The logo as used on the cover of a report published in 2020, designed by Neerja Sharma. Text is set in Avenir.

The logo as used on the back cover of a report published in 2020, designed by Neerja Sharma. Text is set in Avenir.

Darden Studio’s Halyard is the typeface for Demos.org. The website uses various styles of the Halyard family, from two of its three optical sizes.

With compact vertical proportions and tight spacing, Halyard Display is optimized for larger sizes. Its Bold weight is featured for headings. Halyard Text is distinguished by more open shapes and lends itself to being used in smaller sizes and for longform text. The Text subfamily appears in six of its eight weights, and additionally in some italic styles, for a finely graduated typographic hierarchy. As a sans serif with multiple optical sizes and styles, Halyard can perform a wide array of tasks, and at the same time keep everything nicely coordinated within one family.

Founded in 2000, Dēmos is a liberal NGO with the stated mission to “power the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy.” Their new website was designed by ThinkShout and launched in 2019. The Dēmos logo uses Brandon Grotesque.

Halyard Display in use for the issue headings.

Halyard Text used in various weights for article headings, teaser texts, categories, dates, and author credits.

Halyard Display in use for the teaser titles. Footer menu in Halyard Text.

Issue header with Halyard Display for the title and Halyard Text for the intro.

While Halyard Display (center) has an a with horizontal terminal, Halyard Text (top) has larger apertures.

Header for latest articles.

Blog article with pull quote.

Book design for Université de Montréal’s Cyberjustice Laboratory. This publication concludes a seven-year research project aiming to help the justice system step up from its rigid and archaic ways into a more efficient system, while keeping humanity and accessibility at its core.

Cardinal Fruit, a recent typeface reminiscent of condensed humanistic typography in old computer ads (see Apple Garamond), seemed like an apropos candidate for a book about the balance between technology and humanity. It is combined with Suisse Int’l.

Illustrations by Julien Posture.

Jubilat by Darden Studio is the typographic voice of Colorlines.

Published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice, the daily news website uses Jubilat for both headlines and text, in a range of styles and sizes. The slab serif was conceived primarily as a display face, but with its large x-height, it works reasonably well for medium-sized text on screen as well. It here is contrasted with the sans-serif Proxima Nova for menus and captions. The Colorlines logo is in FF DIN.

Article page with main headline in Jubilat Medium. Deck and body copy are rendered in the Light weight.

Topic index page. Jubilat is paired with Proxima Nova, which appears in all caps for titles and dates.

Article teasers. The authors’ names are set apart by the use of Jubilat Italic.

Article page featuring Jubilat’s proportional lining figures.