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Type

Slow Letters

Medium

Type

Year

2026

Tools

Glyphs, After Effects, Rive

Type

Type specimen pinned to a plaster wall: five lowercase g glyphs shifting from hairline to black, blurring as they move

Notes

A study in letters that take their time. Each glyph in a custom display face was drawn with three extra masters, then animated so the weight shifts as the word is read, never all at once.

The rule was simple: no easing curve shorter than 800 milliseconds. Slowing everything down exposed which letterforms held up in motion and which fell apart. The lowercase g did not survive.

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