Need a quick lunchtime diversion while dining al desko? Try your hand at Type is Art. The website lets users explore typography by experimenting with the 21 parts that make up roman letterforms. A simple interface lets you take a descender (or serif, or stem, or shoulder, or ear, or arm*...), scale it and rotate it to your heart's content. Then you can combine it with other letter parts until you're satisfied with your typographic masterpiece. Or at least until your lunch break is over.
* Riffing on the anthropomorphic naming of many letter parts, the above menagerie is drawn from the site's user-created gallery. The aggressive bugger on the left is mine.
that was way too much fun to play with all the parts of letters! who doesn't like to take things apart and put them back together again.
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