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The day I discovered type design(marksimonson.com)
52 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 6 comments
furyofantares 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

jmcmichael 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

fuzzylightbulb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

sebastianmestre 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

smitty1e 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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 an hour ago | parent [-]

Thorn would solve so many problems.

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