Experiments
Figure
A grid thirty-three cells wide, with the alphabet's rules marking your drawing as you go.
Every figure drifting behind this site started on this grid. Thirty-three cells a side, no half tones. A cell is on or it is off.
The rules mark themselves beside the grid. They are not our taste.
They are measurements. How much ink the figure holds, whether the stroke survives, whether a counter-form closes inside it, whether the shape holds when it drops to eleven cells.
What you draw jumps to the field behind the page. Same engine, taking your figure instead of ours.
The grid
Drag to paint. Switch to erase when you want a cell back. On a keyboard, arrows move and the space bar turns a cell on or off.
Column 17, row 17, off
At eleven cells
Ink: 0 cells
The rules
- Ink Between 60 and 420 cells
- Stroke A stroke 2 to 3 cells wide
- Counter-form A closed counter-form
- Eleven Legible at eleven cells
Send it in
If you make a figure that holds, send it. We look at all of them. The ones that make the alphabet keep your name beside them. No promise of a reply.