The day I discovered type design (marksimonson.com)

by ingve • 8 comments • 97 points

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[−] furyofantares 58d ago

> 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 57d ago

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

[−] fuzzylightbulb 57d ago

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

[−] _0ffh 57d ago

I took a look and it's probably a color isoluminance effect.

[−] mosessupposed 57d ago

Ah, that's the guy who designed my favorite typeface. I once ran a weekly newspaper that was about 70% Etna. It's a fabulous family, lots of character (and characters - heh) while still crazy versatile.

[−] sebastianmestre 57d ago

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