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invdr.com — Jonathon Yule's beautiful Helvetica, Futura and Akzidenz-Grotesk font robots.

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  • mbhe, on 04/22/2008, -2/+54Great creativity display, cool. Now do a videogame with such characters.
    • reflex768, on 04/22/2008, -3/+6Not a bad idea, mbhe. I'd like to play it.
    • luchid, on 04/22/2008, -1/+21That would be awesome. I always wanted to kick the crap out of Comic Sans. If only it was socially acceptable to do that to the people who USE it...
    • weeeezzll, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1I don't want to piss on anyones parade, because this is interesting, but it's really not that great...it's just okay.

      Truly amazing art with fonts: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/25835/type_writer_cr ...
      • dinostabOMG, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3That guy is awesome, from a technical point of view. But I don't think you can compare these two modes of working, they're not really all that related. It would be like comparing Mondrian to Raphael.
    • retzed, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Have fun playing with the alphabet monsters!
      http://www.orgdot.com/abc/
  • markusr895, on 04/22/2008, -16/+0I don't see why you'd need to make these, but, ok
  • killbert24, on 04/22/2008, -18/+2No Times New Roman? That's like forgetting to mention Jesus Christ when listing the most famous religious figures ever.
    • D3koy, on 04/22/2008, -0/+12He was doing Sans-Serifs....It says so at the bottom
    • 0x0000ff, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Times New Roman is a serif typeface.

      From the page: "Series of typographic illustrations based on my favourite sans-serifs."
    • samfishercell, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4No, including Times New Roman on that list would be like forgetting to mention Jesus Christ on a list of Non-Biblical Deities.
  • 7travis, on 04/22/2008, -16/+48If you look closely, there are letters in each robot.
    • bullsfan03, on 04/22/2008, -0/+38Phew! Close call, I almost missed that!
    • HUNK23, on 04/22/2008, -0/+61If you look closely, there are robots.
      • 7travis, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2If you look closely, there is a website.
    • seantubridy, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Yes, yes there are.
    • WauloK, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4When you see it...

      oh, never mind.
    • weeeezzll, on 04/22/2008, -1/+7If you look closely you will be looking closely...
    • milkmage, on 04/22/2008, -2/+14wow! cool! they should call them

      FONTBOTS

      (or something)

    • retzed, on 04/22/2008, -3/+1I like the fact that you are still on 1 digg (at present) which suggests that others presumably dugg you up in gratitude. Or are you being sarcastic?
    • Llanowar, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3If you look closely, there are pixels in the letters.
    • rayearth42, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7I shat bricks.
    • baconz, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2If you keep looking, after about 2 minutes a scary face will pop up with really loud music and you will poo yourself in the pants. mostly
  • Chebsi, on 04/22/2008, -13/+4No Comic Sans?
    • luchid, on 04/22/2008, -1/+8Die in a fire!
    • Chebsi, on 04/22/2008, -2/+11But Comic Sans is soooo awesome. It's the only font me and my friends on myspace use.
      • samfishercell, on 04/22/2008, -0/+10I feel that you're trying to make a joke...but I can't shake the nagging feeling that you're telling the truth.
        • Chebsi, on 04/22/2008, -3/+3Now that I look back, I should have posted something like:
          "What?! No Comic Sans? This is an outrage!"
  • cnot3, on 04/22/2008, -11/+9They aren't robots, they clearly have bipedal movement, the preferred term is computerized automatron.
  • vade79, on 04/22/2008, -4/+9Reminds me of the ASCII/ANSI-ART BBS days...except putting your characters in any rotation you want, cheater!
    • Lancer28, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Ahh the good ole' days before the Interwebs
  • seantubridy, on 04/22/2008, -2/+12A nice tribute to robots and typography - two of my favorite things. It would be fun to see these with a joint system and animated.
  • zaii7, on 04/22/2008, -5/+18I, for one, welcome our new font bot overlords
  • Halokhan, on 04/22/2008, -3/+14Now do a WingdingsBot. Give that font a purpose.
    • AuburnTigers, on 04/22/2008, -0/+8It has a purpose. It's used by Microsoft to claim that Jews were responsible for the WTC attacks. duhhhhh
      • RustyJ, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2OMG STAR OF DAVID+PLANE+ TOWERS OMFGOMFG
        • analogkid01, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Actually it was "NYC" = Star of David, skull-n-crossbones, and a thumbs-up sign.
        • b3mus3d, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2The thumbs up sign is so hilariously random. I just imagine some stereotypical terrorist grinning and giving a thumbs up.
  • peaceninja, on 04/22/2008, -16/+3http://www.duggmirror.com
  • derekorr11, on 04/22/2008, -10/+1stupid
  • Lanketer, on 04/22/2008, -6/+1graveyard :) ?
  • peaceninja, on 04/22/2008, -0/+10MIRROR (bury my previous duggmirror comment) - http://tinyurl.com/4dznw6
  • Doomba, on 04/22/2008, -4/+4Totally rad idea, wish I thought of it.
    • ho0ber, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2Did you just finish watching some brat pack movies or something?
  • cfuddd, on 04/22/2008, -4/+3Can't wait for the woot shirt.
  • mongushu, on 04/22/2008, -3/+1YES.
  • nitesoulja, on 04/22/2008, -5/+3FAKE!!!!
  • Wilsomatic, on 04/22/2008, -1/+4Watch out for the arch nemesis of Helvetica: Helvetica BLACK *Bwahaha*
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    • pigducksheep, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1no
    • Culero, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1out of curiousity, wth is that supposed to be? I can't make anything out of it.
  • planckstudios, on 04/22/2008, -6/+3[imgs] > [pics]
  • NoJobBob, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4I'm going to try and do this now.
  • bugsy187, on 04/22/2008, -2/+5These illustrations have inventiveness, but my typography teacher absolutely hates stuff like this.
    • DeathJux, on 04/22/2008, -0/+11Tell your typography teacher to SHUT. UP.
      • bugsy187, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1He's actually really good with type. He'd criticize these illustration as very cliche' and that drawing a picture with type is something that everyone tries to do when they first start in graphic design.
        • DeathJux, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1At that time, you kindly remind him of the old adage:

          "Those that can, do; those that can't, teach"

          See if you can pinpoint the moment when his fragile heart shatters, and his tears leap from their ducts like so many flooding rivers.
  • BlueCadenza, on 04/22/2008, -4/+0That would totally have gotten an A and a student gallery showing in typography class
  • longlowe, on 04/22/2008, -5/+0Mirror:http://www.linkinn.com/_Fontbots_imgs
  • joshzweig, on 04/22/2008, -1/+20Oh my god!
    There's a hidden message in the robots!
    It says "alskjlasjfoirh;';l#lkjoijo" !
  • littlegraydude, on 04/22/2008, -6/+1i dont get it
  • Atsumori, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Awesome, now I want one of their shirts of it on it.
  • youtubes, on 04/22/2008, -5/+0That's cool.
    http://youtubes.net.cn/video/Dy1MGeMhu3s/IR-Robot. ...
  • CaviMike, on 04/22/2008, -4/+1If you have to bunch up so many letters to make the image that they are unrecognizable, it doesn't count. Buried.
  • tw0bit, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1i know the guy who made these...weird how its on digg
  • jebberwocky, on 04/22/2008, -1/+3My interview with the author - Jonathon Yule
    http://macroselfian.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1 ...
  • OneLess, on 04/22/2008, -3/+1Ah, Helvetica is my favorite font just because of the name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swIg08WO04k
  • CrushThemTorg, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1I will let the metal ones eat all my medicine only if it's Akzidenz Grotesk bot. The classics are always the best.
  • charlietuna, on 04/22/2008, -1/+5Open wordpad (write.exe), change the font to Wingdings, make it large for impact, say 48 point, now type NYC. Whoa Nellie! Coincidence? How did Henry Ford get at my fonts?
    • Algaroth, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1I can't believe I went ahead and tried that but I'm glad I did. Funny stuff.
  • techobo, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5Here's Mine
    http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2264/robotvj3.j ...
  • bjarkebech, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1New iPhone background.
  • apollovaulter, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0As a graphic designer who has to deal with typographic design similar to this, this is incredible work. I do have to ask though, is the entire body made up of letters as well?
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