7 Optical Illusions in Type Design — Atricle

Igor Petrovic
Igor Petrovic Posts: 369
in Type Design Technique & Theory
Hi,

I wrote an article about the most common optical illusions in visual design:
https://nostalgicdolphin.com/7-optical-illusions-that-every-graphic-designer-should-know/


Nothing new for experienced type designers (already seen in Gunnlaugur Briem's notes or Thomas Phinney's FL video) but I tried to generalize the topic to draw the attention of graphic/logo designers.

Posting here aiming type design beginners. Cheers!
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  • Yves Michel
    Yves Michel Posts: 240
    Very nice article!
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,071
    Nice!
    You might want to show the corrected version on its own in Chapter 5. It's hard to tell that it's working when it's drawn over the uncorrected version.
    The corrected pill shape in the Bone Effect chapter still doesn't look too good, as you mentioned. You might want to show off the trick of tension offloading: Introduce extra on-curve points at the 45° points in the uncorrected version, then apply your correction to the curve-to-straight transition points. That should look more convincing.
    Cheers, Christian
  • Igor Petrovic
    Igor Petrovic Posts: 369
    Yves Michel said:
    Very nice article!
    Many thanks, Michel!

    Christian Thalmann said:
    You might want to show the corrected version on its own in Chapter 5.
    Thanks Christian, this is a wise remark!

    Christian Thalmann said:
    You might want to show off the trick of tension offloading: Introduce extra on-curve points at the 45° points in the uncorrected version, then apply your correction to the curve-to-straight transition points.
    This sounds interesting, thanks! However, I am not familiar with the technique. Do you mean that you would do the same as described in the article, except adding the on-curve points at 45° before the correction (and then removing them at the end)? 
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,071
    Don't remove them at the end, that would undo the effect... try it for yourself! :smile:
  • Igor Petrovic
    Igor Petrovic Posts: 369
    I see. I was restrained by the reflex of considering on-curve points as a problem for interpolation. But that doesn't apply to logo design, indeed. Thanks!


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