Just added: a 66-segment font from Vienna metro, as illustrated in this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=_4ZMC_QBAC4C&lpg=PA107&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false …, via @startled.pic.twitter.com/qeLttLInFI
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Just added: a 66-segment font from Vienna metro, as illustrated in this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=_4ZMC_QBAC4C&lpg=PA107&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false …, via @startled.pic.twitter.com/qeLttLInFI
Fun stuff to try! 1. You can draw with your mouse or finger! If you do it, switching between the fonts will respect and not destroy your work. (Unless you draw an existing letter, which will be “OCR-ed.”) My favourite example so far: https://twitter.com/adurdin/status/994910698252718083 …
2. You can press space many times to give yourself a nice canvas to draw, and draw across characters.
3. If you type on desktop, type a longer phrase, and then hold backspace and see them disappear in a pleasing fashion.
4. Or, if you type on mobile, and it mirrors the input box below, try to write a longer word that heavily autocorrects after you’re done – and see it animate above.
5. On desktop, hold Ctrl to “type in place” and have the new letter replace the previous one. It’s fun to see relationship between letters this way (e.g. O and Q, P and R, 0 and O, and so on).
This is the Figma file with all the vectors in case you’re interested in engaging this way:https://www.figma.com/file/MNtvZ9k1tSIW4wf499uMUN/Segmented-type-to-share …
This is a great exploration. Even with few segments at hand, you can start approaching many letters in different ways and thinking of the personality of your font:https://twitter.com/chriswearly/status/995011960373641216 …
For that reason, I always liked pixel fonts as a way to introduce people to type design. You can learn basic lessons and recover from mistakes so quickly. (For example, the distance between “Crap, I forgot to make room for descenders” to making that room can be just minutes.)
I think I just learned the lesson Will Wright learned when the level editor for another game became more interesting than the game itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(1989_video_game)#Development … (Or: Build canvases, not demos.)
I wonder if this is the first time in history someone make normal and bold fonts in 14/16 segments.https://twitter.com/chriswearly/status/995062527540252672?s=21 …
Added two more fonts showing different ways of approaching the same problem. I hope someone can help me find a 20-something segment system so that we have every decade represented! https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/ pic.twitter.com/1JYv7rpwhE
I love that people are trying to create emoticons/emoji with this.https://twitter.com/bartaz/status/995609396733456385?s=21 …
This just made me laugh out loud.https://twitter.com/TheApparatchik/status/996049805699960834 …
With great help from patent detective @obra, we now have five new experimental segmented fonts that were never produced or very rare, most recreated from patent drawings.
They are REALLY cool.
https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/
1. A *six* segment font, made for a *pocket typewriter* 155 years ago. The typewriter had six keys, too – not unlike Braille, you would actually key in segments!pic.twitter.com/ITb7AM8YaE
2. A wild 1896 font meant to be lit by… lamps. Only one letter, M, was in the patent, so I extrapolated all the rest.pic.twitter.com/WNbTPfN5Gm
3. A recent font developed for e-ink displays, sent to me by its authors, Dave Vondle and Nicholas Zambetti.pic.twitter.com/x9E9PWN6BH
4. An asymmetric font from 1958. Only digits were specified – check out that “4”! – so I extrapolated to the entire alphabet.pic.twitter.com/ktwTY6Ohf5
5. And, lastly, an amazing discovery: A 1956 font by Fred P. Brooks, Jr. – the author of “The Mythical Man-Month”! It’s actually a bit of a cross between Nixie and segment font (overlapping segments), and it is an absolutely GORGEOUS art deco font. Look at those digits!pic.twitter.com/TTadostDMC
As expected from a programmer, all the glyphs were specified as data, which I keyed in. As expected from a programmer, there were bugs. :·]pic.twitter.com/tQGTWgDwzY
If I’d want to turn either of these into a real font, this would be it.
There’s something really thrilling about bringing these long forgotten (155 years!) entities back to life.
Thanks again to @obra and others who helped in finding those!
My friend @julesforrest found a brilliant example of a different kind of segmented typography: digits made out of pipe fragments and connectors.pic.twitter.com/tQvy9ufA3s
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