Original DA Upload Date: January 31, 2021
To close out January, here’s something completely different and experimental.
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Earlier this month, I came up with a Limited Palette Randomizer challenge, or Lipara challenge for short, similar in concept to that comic with Rowan Rudyard that I made on Leap Day last year, but more restrictive. I let a number generator choose thirty random integers within a sixteen-number range (0-15 or 1-16), with every group of six representing the hex value of one of five colosr that I would use to create the image. When I used the 0-15 range, numbers 10-15 would represent A-F respectively. But then I made it easier for myself by using the 1-16 range, in which the 10 would represent ‘0’, and 11-16 would represent A-F. After the thirty numbers were converted to the five hex values, I then would get to work creating the posters, with the palette with which I was provided. And this is what I came up with!
Because I thought the posters gave off a retro vibe, I constructed a font modeled after Milton Glaser’s ‘Babyteeth’ to go with them. It’s not an entirely new font, the ‘A’ and ‘M’ look exactly like how they appear on the single cover for ‘Mama’ by Genesis, and the ‘N’ looks like the NBC logo from 1975. And I’m sure there are other sources this font takes from, those are just the two I could think of. If I could sell this font (might run into some trademark issues with the ‘N’, though), I’d probably call it… “Englishman’s Teeth”. Because it’s a retro-looking font and Brits have been known as a driving force in popular music, especially in the 1960s and 1980s, both decades that this font is inspired by.
“Full version of Englishman’s Teeth coming when?”
When I design a full set of letters, numbers and punctuation. Which I don’t know when that will be.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this experiment in artwork, and I can’t wait to see what other people come up with for the Lipara challenge! All you need is a good digital art program, any program where you can choose numbers based on hex values. Then go here, set sample size to 30, range to 1-16, allow duplicates, and work with whatever it generates for you!
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All four panels of this artwork were made at a resolution of 2160×2880 (aspect ratio 1:1.33).
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