An experimental typeface that I designed during my study Graphic & Typographic Design at the Royal Academy of Art (kabk). It incorporates the principal of self-similarity, and behaves like a fractal in that sense.
| x = 1 | |
|---|---|
| x = 2 | |
| x = 3 | |
5x2 — formally 5x — was originally designed as a part of Personal Project Pixel Perfect (p4). It was based on a 5 by 5 (pixel) grid, and looks a lot like Kottke’s Silkscreen, but also like some (much older) type experiments from the Bauhaus in that sense. The big difference is that the 5 by 5 principle is used recursively, in order to construct greater corpses.
After a while, I started using 5x2 outside the context of p4, and therefor was no longer bound to the p4 dogma, which meant I could start incorporating different shapes and colors. I then wrote a series of software programs in Python, PHP, and Processing, that allowed me to render more complex variations relatively fast.
Examples of 5x2
in the wild. (Also see p4.)
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