Designer: Robert
SchenkThough there are lots of thousands of digital typefaces readily available, none appear to be made solely of letters that tessellate, a total tessellating alphabet. This void is now filled with not one typeface, but a group of typefaces, the Tescellations kinship group. Despite the fact that I understand only one use for this typeface—— composing about tessellations—— that does not mean there are not hundreds or possibly countless other uses.
These typefaces are a byproduct of two labyrinth books I created, Confusing Typography and Confusing Typography A Follow Up. I found the difficulty of making labyrinths from tessellations, consisting of letter tessellations, intriguing and these typefaces are a byproduct that endeavor.
There are 7 members of this typeface kinship group. I attempted to select the glyphs that fit together best to form Tescellations; it is the most understandable of the lot. The factor for an Italics version is that I needed one for the maze project. In building it, I tried to consist of as several lower-case glyphs as I could rather than simply skew the regular variation. A purist may firmly insist that the tessellation deal with the counters. My technique was to worry only about the outside of any letter that has an interior, but for anybody who might challenge the counters, variations with filled counters are included.
What did not fit into Tescellations was dumped into Tescellations Two, which is somewhat of a ransom-note kind of face. It is available in two styles, a routine variation and a version in which the counters are removed.
TescellationPatterns shows how many of the characters in these typefaces tessellate. It has more than 100 tessellation patterns, each on just one character. Simply type numerous lines with any character and ensure the leading is the very same as the font style size, and you have an immediate tessellation pattern of a letter.
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