For many historical periods, there seems to be a fairly clear typographic counterpart: for example, Renaissance and humanist typefaces, Modernism and geometric sans-serif typefaces, and so on …

But what about Surrealism?

Are there any typefaces, type styles or typographic movements that could seriously be described as ‘surrealist’? If so, what characteristics would distinguish them? Are there historical examples from the Surrealist period itself, or later typeface designs that embody Surrealist ideas typographically?

Or does Surrealism differ fundamentally from movements such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco or the Bauhaus, in that it manifests itself primarily through visual language, composition, collage and visual context, rather than through the design of the letterforms themselves?

Would you consider Surrealism a missing category in typographic classification, or simply a movement that never developed its own recognizable typographic language?