{"id":1270,"date":"2013-05-27T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:33:15","slug":"topography-in-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2013\/05\/topography-in-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"Topography in typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neat idea by artist Siyu Cao: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/LAKESIDE\/8721167\">a typeface from topographic map excerpts<\/a>. Hills, ridges and mountains signify letters&#8217; bodies, lakes and low areas the empty spaces around and within letters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/behance.vo.llnwd.net\/profiles7\/440225\/projects\/8721167\/7b831af81abd07c236dc97650a70aca9.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The typeface gains clarity when extruded to 3D:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/behance.vo.llnwd.net\/profiles7\/440225\/projects\/8721167\/7bec7d274ea26225d0aefa50e1c0d64d.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Made me wonder how a relief-shaded 2D version or a smoothly interpolated 3D version with imprinted contour lines would look like.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/50586474596\/typography-topography-an-earth-inspired-typeface\">It&#8217;s Okay to Be Smart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neat idea by artist Siyu Cao: a typeface from topographic map excerpts. Hills, ridges and mountains signify letters&#8217; bodies, lakes and low areas the empty spaces around and within letters. The typeface gains clarity when extruded to 3D: Made me wonder how a relief-shaded 2D version or a smoothly interpolated 3D version with imprinted contour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2013\/05\/topography-in-typography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Topography in typography<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,23,38,51,52,118],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-art","tag-cartography","tag-design","tag-fun","tag-geo","tag-typography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Siyu_Cao_Relief_typeface.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}