Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Braille: Set below or beside the print, with room for a finger to travel
- Type
- Set in Braille's manner (Dot diameter and spacing follow the standard, never adjusted for looks), and let Pictogram System's lettering (Draw every mark on one grid and stroke weight, human proportions shared) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Braille's material (Materials that hold dot height, no coating that rounds the domes); bring in exactly one thing from Pictogram System (Single color silhouettes, minimum size and viewing distance decided first).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 140 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Braille Shrinking or tightening the dots to tidy the look drops them below the resolution of a fingertip, and nobody can read them.
- Pictogram System Drawing each mark as a picture lets stroke and proportion drift, the set stops reading as a system, and meanings swap at a distance.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Braille (Style, 1824–) and its accent from Pictogram System (Style, 1964–). Structural cues: The 2x3 dot cell; Dimensions fit to the fingertip; Left-to-right tactile reading; The materiality of embossing. Accent cues, used sparingly: Geometrized human figures; Uniform stroke weight; Consistency as a system; Independence from language. Composition: Set below or beside the print, with room for a finger to travel. Type and lettering: Dot diameter and spacing follow the standard, never adjusted for looks. Let one material quality come from the second style: Single color silhouettes, minimum size and viewing distance decided first. Mood: Trust, Intimacy, Technology. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Braille 1824– / Style / Symbol Systems
A tactile writing system Louis Braille designed at fifteen, giving every letter a two-by-three cell of dots. Sizing that cell to a single fingertip is a rare case of ergonomics and typography arriving at the same answer.
- Pictogram System 1964– / Style / Information Design
Unified symbol systems that name facilities and actions without language. Tokyo 1964 systematized sport and wayfinding symbols; the AIGA/DOT transportation set became the public-domain world standard.
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