Playground · open exercises
Things that didn't have to exist.
A place for the experiments that would never survive a real brief — palette studies, grid tests, animated type, the kind of thing a studio of one imagined hand might post to its own wall at the end of a quiet afternoon.
Animated type
A headline that admits itself.
A palette
Six pigments. Cream to hold the page, verdigris to calm it, madder when it needs arguing with.
A grid, imagined
Twelve columns, four rows, one argument. Imagined — not in use anywhere.
Marginalia
"A book set too close to its edges reads as anxious."
Live kerning — drag to re-space
Drag the slider to move every letter in or out. The word is permanence; kerning is the thing we use to pretend a word can mean it.
An impossible button
It moves. Not because it refuses you, but because the designer refused a brief in which a button was wanted for its own sake.
A generative specimen
24 invented glyphs composed from the same five strokes. Reload to remake the specimen. None of these are real typefaces; all of them are plausible.
Hand-pulled rule
A printer's rule, inked by hover. The ink runs where the hand rested longest — faster movements leave thinner lines. Try it.