Fonts Crafted With LEGO Bricks: Satisfying Type Obsession Down To The Pixel
You can build almost anything with LEGO, and that is what gives these little plastic bricks so much magic for adults and children alike.
But one artist has found a way to expand 2D creations with LEGO, unique to most of the other 3D designs that we see today, like the incredible recreation of the Titanic.
Craig Ward, creator of Brik Font, has been taking to the blocks to recreate typefaces in iconic styles. From Bauhaus to Garamond, there’s bound to be something familiar at every scroll down his project Instagram page.
Every letter is carefully crafted, made to look like 8-bit offerings that one might get zooming all the way in on a computer screen, or perhaps on a retro video game.
Jason Kottke of kottke.org likens it to what a font looks like when narrowing right in on Photoshop to do detailed work up close.
But hold it at arm’s length, and you’re reminded that this is, indeed, a LEGO-hued work of art. It’s not just letters, either; there have also been explorations in symbols, like arrows.
“Type studies, a little learning and the quest for the perfect Lego typeface,” Ward writes of the project on his Instagram page’s profile description.
Some say the quest for perfection is a never-ending pursuit, but the satisfaction at seeing how all the rectangular bricks fit together to create the tantalizingly smooth curve of the letter “O” comes pretty close.
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[via Creative Bloq and kottke.org, images via Craig Ward and featured with permission]
