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 my 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 mine.
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 Too few cells, or too many. Stay between sixty and four hundred and twenty, and under half the grid.
- Stroke The stroke is thin.
- Counter-form No closed gap. Shut a hole somewhere inside the figure, even a small one.
- Eleven At eleven cells the figure falls apart. Thicken it, or drop some detail.
Send it in
If you make a figure that holds, send it. I look at all of them. The ones that make the alphabet keep your name beside them. No promise of a reply.