Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Visual Analogies Out the Whazoo

This might just blow your mind. Or, you might find it stupid.

Either way it's interesting. It's called Sonotype. The expression of letters and sound. I was really thrown off by the concept at first. It is defined as a series of experimental typefaces that challenges the arbitrary relationship between verbal and visual communication. They use sonogram interpretations- that is a visual representation of speech. It's kind of confusing and bewildering, but the website is fun to play around with. Never drew a relationship between sound and typography like that before!

http://www.sonotype.com/

Cool PDF chart of the pronounced forms and the actual written forms of the alphabet.
http://www.sonotype.com/about_sonotype.pdf

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