Tiling Typography

A series of four typographic studies placing classic typefaces over mathematical tiling patterns.

2010-01-01

Method
digital
Year
2010

Each composition pairs a typeface with a tiling whose geometry echoes something in the letterforms: Garamond’s classical curves against the five-fold Penrose; Baskerville’s sharp serifs against the nine-fold rhombic grid; Frutiger’s rational geometry against the Ammann–Beenker’s eight-fold order; Gill Sans’s humanist strokes against a domino tiling.

Baskerville, the word in the font, on a 9-fold rhombic tilingFrutiger, the word in the font, on an Ammann–Beenker tilingGaramond, the word in the font, on a Penrose tilingGill Sans, the word in the font, on a domino tiling