Had this silly idea. Maybe it’s a poster. A t-shirt?
The surface area of each character has been mathematically halved—or as close as I could get—by making one vertical or horizontal slice, while still retaining the characters’ readability.
What do we think?
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I think that thinning the "C" and "O", or finding another way to distinguish them, would improve this. All the other forms look fine.
ReplyDeleteI guess there are problems distinguishing "n" and "p", and "d" and "u", but those don't bother me as much.
Personally, I really don't like the ones where the stroke width has been affected, I think they're visually jarring, especially because there are so few of them. That uppercase F, for example, seems to be taking the mathematical accuracy to a bit of an extreme, leaving that hairwidth upright there. I think there would be more elegant ways to deal with i, j l, F, I, J, L, T and 1.
ReplyDeleteAnd B and G for that matter.
ReplyDeleteSorry Whelk, but as much I love type, I might love math more. If I wasn't beholden to the rules I laid out for myself, it wouldn't be much of a concept... just an exercise in beauty. I have no real problem with it being visually jarring. It's not meant to be a font. It's just a pun.
ReplyDeleteWould love to see this applied to, say, Helvetica Heavy or Black even. Think the results could be somewhat more substantial?
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