Frustro, a 3D typeface that will play tricks with your eyes and blow your mind (Click Image To Enlarge)
If you like typography and appreciate the mind-bending genius of M.C. Escher, this typeface has no equal: An alphabet made entirely of “undecidable” figures, two-dimensional objects that look like 3-D projections but, on closer examination, are geometrically impossible.
Frustro, the 3D typeface that plays tricks with your eyes and will blow your mind (Click Images To Enlarge)
Frustro is the work of Martzi Hegedűs, a 25-year-old graphic designer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts who was inspired to create a typeface inspired by Escher. He tells Co.Design.
“At the beginning I did not expect Frustro to be used. However, I started to make it as a computer font just for the challenge.”
The principle behind the Frustro 3D typeface is the optical illusion created by two competing planes (the two typefaces above) are combined within the same typeface (the single typeface below). The mind becomes confused and the viewer sees the "R" letter differently depending on which plane it focuses its eyes on. If you focus your eyes on the top part of the bottom "R" the letter tips downward. If you focus your eyes on the bottom part of the "R" the letter tips upward. Weird, isn't it? (Click Image To Enlarge)
He’s now finalizing an OpenType version, which he hopes to make available more widely. Hegedűs has done a fine job of producing perfectly legible letters that still meet the "impossible" criteria.
More Frustro 3D typeface images and the original concept for the typeface (Click Images To Enlarge)
COMMENTARY: Boy, that Frustro 3D typeface really does play tricks with your mind. I would love to do at least one blog post using Frustro just to blow my readers minds and get the feedback.
Courtesy of an article dated March 28, 2012 appearing in Fast Company Design
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