Gummy Alphabet

2007 July 20

gummi-alphabet.jpg

These letters are colorful, flexible, fun — -and delicious!

Note how the limitations of this nontraditional material are expressed. Since gummy is just barely a solid, the letters are shaped for structural stability. Letters with large open spaces — -D, O, Q — -are narrow, for example, while the G’s horizontal stroke connects to its stem, and the V’s vertex is half as high as the entire letter. (My guess is this keeps it from being mistaken for a lopsided L.)

I’m impressed that the manufacturer didn’t cut corners like pretending that W is just an upside-down M, or Z a sideways N. There really are 26 different letterforms here.

Now, what would gummy punctuation look like?

One comment. »

  1. did you lay out all those gummies yourself?

    gotta look at the nytimes magazine today. pg 16 - beautiful embroidered lettering.

    Comment by maggie — 2007 July 22 @ 3:16 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Site content and design © copyright 2006–2008 Scott Murray.