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Occlusion Grotesque Experimental Typeface (2021)
- airstrike 5y agoI read the first paragraph and rolled my eyes, then proceeded down to the photos and specimen and fell in love with it. Amazing find
- neves 5y agoI'd like to see it in other tree specimens. Each one will create its own unique design
- tptacek 5y agoExact same reaction.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI dunno, it seems kind of... Smudged? Totally subjective, of course, but it just doesn't seem that interesting.
- abrookewood 5y agoYes, I was thinking "W@nker!" ... scrolled down and then went "Wow .. that is seriously cool". Can't imagine that it will be much use past Year 5, but it's a great concept.
- IshKebab 5y agoYeah it sounds like bullshit pretentious art (technology, nature, synergy ) but the results are actually really cool.
- aagd 5y agoAm I the only one finding this painful to watch?
- jollybean 5y agoPeak Hipster kind of thing, of course it's 'Scandinavian' ... but it's fine, it works. Looks cool.
- aliswe 5y agoscandinaves were hipsters before hipsters were hipsters.
- arthurcolle 5y agoWhat is the font of the site itself? I really like it - on mobile right now so can't open devtools to find out myself
- FragenAntworten 5y agoInput Sans Condensed Medium: https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/input-sans https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/input-sans
- FrostKiwi 5y agoThat is one of the most unique mergers of tech and art I have seen in a while. Big ups to the creator.
- foreverathome 5y agooh neat. now we can have variants based different trees.
- mizzao 5y ago> Chapter two, Deep Occlusion, explores the typeface as a dataset for an AI to learn how a tree grows and designs shapes over time. Very curious to see this part emerge.
- bogwog 5y agoFuck that! It will put trees out of a job!
- quickthrower2 5y agoI wonder, can you turn this into a "tree aging" machine learning model that can then predict / apply this to other characters, for example those Google monocolor emojis.
- veltas 5y agoThe font is hard to read. It's a nice thoughtful project but seems to not have 'worked' as a functional font. But if I see it used on a blog somewhere now I'll probably remember it and have a chuckle.
- TAKEMYMONEY 5y agoThat's known as "display" type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_typeface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_typeface
- cormacrelf 5y agoThere are thousands upon thousands of fonts that are also “hard to read”. It’s not because they are poorly executed. They’re just not all meant to be used as body text for a book. The function is clearly display text (ie one-off headlines, big type for designs like you might see in a magazine) and this one works in that role perfectly. Almost any amount of “hard to read” is tolerable when there’s only one or two lines of text set in it and it also happens to look beautiful.
- veltas 5y agoTolerable is a synonym of sufferable. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- LeanderK 5y agoBeauty is not always about function and text is not always about content. Design and style can communicate a certain vibe or appeal to a certain social group, which might be more important than raw information.
- IshKebab 5y agoI don't think they intended for the tree to make an easy to read font. It looks like it "worked" very well as a cool art experiment to me.
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- noisy_boy 5y agoThe tree seems to be making the fonts more "organic" :) The f looks like a penguin to me, m is an elephant for sure and o is like eye of a snake...
- taneq 5y agoI can't help reading the progressions of letters as being what the tree would say, if it could, after having letters carved in it. > aaaaa! > fffff! > hhhhh...
- mathiasrw 5y agoI love this project! But I feel like the attention to details in planning the project is not matched with the attention to details when it comes to capturing the essence / energy of the font as the tree progressed. Some examples are "a" for year 3 and "h" for both year 2 and 3 where the font is lacking a lot of the expression that the designer tree is providing. But very interesting. Thank you for creating this.