The day I discovered type design

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by ingve • 4 months ago

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furyofantares• 4 months ago

Lettering design I did for my high school yearbook in 1974.

Anyone else get an optical illusion effect from this? Looks like it's continually zooming out to me.

fuzzylightbulb• 4 months ago

Same. Those colors were an intentional (and effective) choice

jmcmichael• 4 months ago

yeah, that’s called chromostereopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis

_0ffh• 4 months ago

I took a look and it's probably a color isoluminance effect.

sebastianmestre• 4 months ago

TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed

smitty1e• 4 months ago

One is fascinated by how others can be enthralled by something that seems, at first blush, so much polishing of the cannon ball.

But that's OK. The world is a better place for not being ruled by my bland tastes.

If I had to design a typeface, I'd bring back retro characters like thorn: Þ.

shdudns• 4 months ago

Thorn would solve so many problems.

For example, how do I write an h sound after t?

mosessupposed• 4 months ago

Ah, that's the guy who designed my favorite typeface. I once ran a weekly newspaper that was about 70% Etna. It's a fabulous family, lots of character (and characters - heh) while still crazy versatile.

The day I discovered type design

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