Interesting! It’s definitely pretty difficult to read some of the variations but it is quite stylish, I don’t think I’ve seen a typeface quite like this before.
I don't know much about these topics, but the style looks very 1970s to me. Looked at the Wikipedia article on Wim Crouwel and it seems some of his typography was from the late 60s, so not far off.
Nope. No problem here. Don't know why you would think my comment was meant to suggest it. I am presently a fan of many things from that time period. Very good decade for music, for instance.
I stopped reading after trying to scroll and seeing that the website messes with my scroll speed (and even worse, there is an annoying inertia effect).
Outside of this, the font may be useful for some specific design work, but it is unreadable.
I don't know where the "hate" is coming from... Or maybe I just see this more as art and not something to be taken seriously as a technical suggestion.
me too: i thought it was a wonderfully artistic/design tool. no a replacement font for your terminal (what seems that most were expecting judging from their comments of disappointment)
Author here. This started as one of our monthly days of experimenting at our design agency https://booreiland.amsterdam — The concept of those days is to create something (anything) in 8 hours. The prototype of this was done in the day after Crouwel passed away so that basically was my starting point. I knew he worked a lot with grid-based type (and earned the nickname Gridnik because of that).
I see a lot of comments about readability. That's not really the point though, although I tried my best. It's more of a programming and design puzzle, to see what happens if all you have is a 3×3 grid.
I really enjoyed it, even if I did think it was going to be recommendations for a text editor config initially. How was it built? Looking through the compiled JS, it looks like it uses PixiJS (https://pixijs.download/dev/docs/index.html)?
I found it really hard to read, but I loved the presentation. It was definitely a much smoother parallax effect than the one that Apple did for the iPhone 11 launch page (though I'm assuming they've since fixed it). You should definitely be proud.
very neat, it would be interesting to see the 3x3 grid encoding used for steganography, especially in a game. Incidentally, this is another reason that Minecraft needs a vertical slab, an open trapdoor is one option but has a limited palette.
I think a font like this would fit perfectly in colorForth. Combining the Shannon encoding used by Chuck Moore [1] with a similar font would be an interesting exercise.
This font in particular is great. I am always intrigued by experiments that try to take minimalism to the extreme.
Very designed. I'm just glad I don't have to read that font on a regular basis. One of those sad cases where “design” is the diametrical opposite of usability.
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edit: or thai, or arabic
[0] http://baby-pen.com.tw/index.php?route=product/product&produ...
It kind of feels like cheating with all the shrinking/expanding of vertical/horizontal cells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Crouwel
Outside of this, the font may be useful for some specific design work, but it is unreadable.
I see a lot of comments about readability. That's not really the point though, although I tried my best. It's more of a programming and design puzzle, to see what happens if all you have is a 3×3 grid.
That page doesn’t mention the spelling error (possibly intentionally, as the ‘m’ looks weirder than the ‘n’) in the title (cover image on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_(Joy_Division_album) )
This font in particular is great. I am always intrigued by experiments that try to take minimalism to the extreme.
[1] https://colorforth.github.io/chars.html
Thanks for doing the hard slog of filtering all the things that does not work, so others may avoid them :-)
As whoever said: "I did not fail, I discovered a thousand ways of not making a light bulb"