Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 16

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

Typography Squares

This mon­th’s wall­pa­per is inspired by a project I remem­ber doing my first year in col­lege. You made a com­po­si­tion by crop­ping let­ters in squares and see­ing how far you could push a let­ter before it just became unrec­og­niz­able shapes. We ended up mak­ing around ten squares for each let­ter and then sat there shuf­fling them around through end­less com­bi­na­tions. It was a great intro­duc­tion to leg­i­bil­i­ty and atten­tion to pos­i­tive vs. neg­a­tive space. I kept the back­ground sim­ple with just a lit­tle noise to let the squares and let­ters do the real work this month.

Typography Squares Wallpaper Preview

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