Open Collab is a experiment in digital collaboration. Throughout the month they put out an open call for submissions on a theme that are the randomly combined with other submissions to create new works of art. This month it was the Typographic Session and they asked participants “to test, showcase and challenge your freshly designed fonts…This session the format is 1200×480px. Using your self-designed font, please try to find a word, that fills the format as good as possible. Feel free to use any language. The result will not only be a beautiful composition of fonts, but also a (hopefully) funny piece of 3-word-dada-poetry.
How to participate
- Create a 1200×480px artboard
- Adjust the fontsize to the height of the artboard
- Find a word, that approximately fills the width
- Do not leave margins – they will be added automatically
- Export as jpg
- Submit work
Best practice
- JPG: black type, white bg
- Single line of type
- Try different color modes” (Open Collab 2021)
With that in mind I created my word “Inner” from my recent Tuscan experiment and submitted it. You can see it below combined with other submissions.
This was a fun experiment to be part of and was a good reason to start producing designs with my components.
References
- THOMAS, P., 2020. Open Collab 2020]. Available from: http://www.open-collab.org/
