Letterform Expression

文字表現

Dictionary entry

  1. Kinetic Typography film titles–digital motion / Motion

    Translates a word's meaning into speed, pause and direction — designing the time of reading itself.

  2. Calligram antiquity–modernism / Technique

    Turns the arrangement of words into the shape of their meaning — reading and seeing at once.

  3. Manga Lettering 1930s– / Style

    The drawn sound-words of Japanese manga — don, shiin — writing noise and even silence as pictures. Translating sound's texture into line weight and shape, it dissolves the border between word and image inside the panel.

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