The day I discovered type design

91 points
1/21/1970
3 days ago
by ingve

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furyofantares

> 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.

3 days ago

jmcmichael

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

3 days ago

fuzzylightbulb

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

3 days ago

_0ffh

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

3 days ago

mosessupposed

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.

3 days ago

sebastianmestre

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

3 days ago

smitty1e

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.

3 days ago

shdudns

Thorn would solve so many problems.

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

3 days ago