Seriatim Substitution
Hrant (from the critique of Seriatim Gestalt):
> Which reminds me of an experiment I've
> been considering: making a font (probably
> out of Times) that substitutes other letters
> for the real ones, with some minimal
> manipulation. Like taking an "e", rotating it
> 180, and adding a small curling stroke to
> the bottom-right: one messed-up "a"!
I think it was David Carson who did something like that with Times Roman.
Here's a version of that idea using Seriatim. The ground rules: Characters had to be used as they are, with no manipulations other than rotating, shifting or flipping. Characters could not be used to represent themselves (I followed this one pretty well, with the exception of the upper-case "U", which I flipped horizontally, and the at "@", which I flipped vertically). I allowed this rule to lapse for most of the nonalphabetics and nonnumerics.
David


















26.May.2002 3.40pm
26.May.2002 3.50pm
The Latin alphabet, in 3000 AD...
hhp
26.May.2002 9.05pm
Funny!
The lowercase r is great. I might try to make a descending r in a typeface. It's an interesting idea.
26.May.2002 10.26pm
David - Nice 'thinking' on this one...the clever redheaded stepchild of your Seriatim family.
bj