"The hardest thing was not to get confused by the illusion while drawing
February 18, 2014 7:07 AM Subscribe
Frustro "is a display typeface with a multistable perception phenomenon, based on the principles of the Penrose triangle."
The Impossible Typeface
The Impossible Typeface
This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- jessamyn
Oww, my eyes!
I'm not a typography expert, but is it common to use an abbreviated obituary for Oliver Reed as a text sample?
There is an interview linked from the first page that includes this useful tidbit:
In your opinion, is there an ideal usage of your font?
I don't see the ideal usage of Frustro, but I'm sure it's not for body text. I think it's up to the user to find out what to do with it.
posted by TedW at 7:17 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'm not a typography expert, but is it common to use an abbreviated obituary for Oliver Reed as a text sample?
There is an interview linked from the first page that includes this useful tidbit:
In your opinion, is there an ideal usage of your font?
I don't see the ideal usage of Frustro, but I'm sure it's not for body text. I think it's up to the user to find out what to do with it.
posted by TedW at 7:17 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
I always love me a cleverly-done font, but... Why why why make the H, K, and X almost-alike? Why?
posted by ardgedee at 7:21 AM on February 18, 2014
posted by ardgedee at 7:21 AM on February 18, 2014
This is not a unique comment - see also: See also: Macula.
posted by komara at 7:25 AM on February 18, 2014 [6 favorites]
posted by komara at 7:25 AM on February 18, 2014 [6 favorites]
I hear LaBeouf is working on a typeface like this, based on scanned images in which he has personally chewed away unwanted ligatures of the superimposed lettershapes of glyphs printed on rice paper, which he has appropriated from other copyrighted typefaces. The Knawshia family.
If you install it he comes to your house and personally apologizes to you about how terrible it is. While crying and holding your hand.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:35 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
If you install it he comes to your house and personally apologizes to you about how terrible it is. While crying and holding your hand.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:35 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
It's almost like the typeface in my copy of The Necronomicon, but this is definitely second rate. For one thing, no matter how long I look at them, they stay affixed to the screen and make no effort to crawl into my brain through my opic nerves. Nice try, but I can only assign a C....
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:40 AM on February 18, 2014
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:40 AM on February 18, 2014
The Impossible Typeface
posted by the man of twists and turns
Eponysterical?
posted by ssmug at 7:46 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by the man of twists and turns
Eponysterical?
posted by ssmug at 7:46 AM on February 18, 2014 [1 favorite]
Perhaps it is a good thing that this typeface isn't free; otherwise I see a the potential for a nasty April Fools prank by #1.
posted by TedW at 7:48 AM on February 18, 2014
posted by TedW at 7:48 AM on February 18, 2014
This is a double but it seems like a nice thread and I can't bring myself to flag it. Linked in case anyone is interested in the conversation it sparked last time.
posted by Wretch729 at 8:45 AM on February 18, 2014
posted by Wretch729 at 8:45 AM on February 18, 2014
I always love me a cleverly-done font, but... Why why why make the H, K, and X almost-alike? Why?
I think maybe diagonals screw up the effect. (It's hard to tell, since they used the "spaghetti" version for the character set, but I suspect the Z doesn't quite work.)
posted by Sys Rq at 8:48 AM on February 18, 2014
I think maybe diagonals screw up the effect. (It's hard to tell, since they used the "spaghetti" version for the character set, but I suspect the Z doesn't quite work.)
posted by Sys Rq at 8:48 AM on February 18, 2014
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