tuesday alphabet
Sure, you could bake your own biscuit alphabet with all sorts of specialist cookie-cutters and ovens and ingredients and suchlike OR you could spend half an hour raiding the biscuit jar and rearranging the contents until you end up with something like the above, from Present / & / Correct
N.b. When the revolution comes and my glorious reign begins, I will make sure that all alphabets are at least 20% Bourbon Cream. You’re welcome.
Some time ago, I resigned myself to the fact that cats have decisively beaten out dogs for full spectrum dominance of the internet. The dog community can spend its time licking its balls in a daze, wondering how it came to pass, but there’s no turning back. If you’d like to read a 6,000 word essay about the ‘online cat-industrial complex’, then Gideon Lewis-Kraus has you covered.
If, on the other hand, you came here to find an alphabet made entirely of cats, then Nekofont is the world’s number 1 web app for cat typography. Citizens may safely abandon all other alphabets; we have a winner.
This isn’t actually a full alphabet – yet – but it’s an interesting project that combines mapping, image processing, architecture and typography.
Benedikt Groß, a data visualisation designer, and Joey Lee, a geographer, are collaborating on a successfully-funded Kickstarter to seek out letterforms in satellite imagery. Whatever typeface comes out the other end of this process will be a neat little curiosity piece, but Groß and Lee’s more serious focus is on offering “non-domain experts (e.g. artists, designers, citizen scientists, etc.) a set of tools to source their own datasets and inspire people from all backgrounds to explore geographic data.”
Spanish interaction designer Claudia Mussett has created this typographic tribute to the mighty Monument Valley. Go check out the full A-Z at her website. This is part of a rapidly growing body of MV fan art, some of which you can see over at the ustwo-curated Monument Friends tumblr.
In Alphabet Topography, Caspar Lam and YuJune Park of Synoptic Office take a linguistic high concept, add a dash of autocorrect magic, and end up with a beautiful modular sculpture. The relative height of the letterforms is determined by how often each letter is used in English.
