Colophon
How these pages are printed, and the few rules they keep.
panel · interference · two ring sets, 9 and 9.5 px · centres 155 px apart · seed 13panel · terrain · 1 summit · 12 contours · bands even-odd · seed 13panel · halftone · screens 24 px at 15° and 17 px at 75° · bloom 448 px · seed 13
Three drums, one signal
The drum switch re-inks the plates and panels of every page. Text, layout and artwork never change. Your choice and the registration stay with this tab until you close it; Reset puts the first drum back.
Printed in Fringe: magenta, cyan and key blue, registration 3 px.
Fringe
- plate 2 · cyan #2fa9d9
- plate 1 · magenta #e0389c
- key · key blue #3255a4
An interpretation of the saturated band of the glitch pieces.
Muted
- plate 2 · pale ochre #d9b45a
- plate 1 · mauve #9a5f8a
- key · oxidized green #3d6650
An interpretation of the muted band of all eleven pieces.
Bloom
- plate 2 · acid #f5fa49
- plate 1 · pink #f64caa
- key · cobalt #2523c9
The Brutal Bloom inks of the first prototype.
Method: the eleven pieces were converted to sRGB, downscaled to 240 px and binned into hue families in two bands, saturated (S > 0.45) and muted (S 0.15–0.45). Each drum is an interpretation of one reading, adjusted to print on paper, not a sampled pixel. The signal, vermilion #ee4423, marks one thing in each drawing and, in the interface, only state.
Type
Anybody · width 150 → 50
AaAaAaAaAa
Serif voice · being chosen; for now the italic is Instrument Serif and the text is Literata
Art, experiments, and field notes.Reading text sits at nineteen pixels, one measure wide, with a margin for notes.
Martian Mono · readouts and recipes
rings 14 · aperture 0.38 · seed 2 · reg 3 px
House rules
- Text is ink
- Reading text is set in ink on paper, or in paper on the dark bed. Drum inks print drawings and panels, never words.
- One signal
- Vermilion marks one thing in each drawing. In the interface it only means focus, hover or pressed.
- The art keeps its colour
- No ink, grain, tint, crop or rotation ever touches a piece. Each piece's own pixels choose its ground: the glitch work on the dark bed, the drawings and the painting on paper.
- Absence is drawn
- Anything not known yet prints as a rest , never as a guess.
- Nothing moves unless asked
- Motion starts on request, stops when the tab is hidden and stays off when reduced motion is set. Every page reads without JavaScript.