seis
The page from my notebook.
This idea started when I discovered a beautiful page from a notebook I used over the summer. On that page, I had drawn a couple of digit sets in a 2×3 rectangle, according to a small set of rules.
A zine page describing how to draw seis[^name] characters.[^zine-page-wip]
The rules are simple:
- You set up a grid of 2×3 squares.
- In each you can draw any of the following lines:
- a curved line, as a quadrant of a circle (between diagonally opposed points);
- a straight line, horizontally or vertically, over the length of any square’s edges.
- The lines may be overlapped—for instance, you may have multiple straight and quarter-circle lines in the same square.
I like to use dot-grid paper, or draw the 12 dots myself on a blank sheet, and use them to guide my lines.
As soon as I came across that page, I started playing around with creating characters in this way, again. Making little drawings like that reminded me of drawing similar things together with a dear friend who I’ve known my whole life. By sharing this, I hope to give anybody reading this the same joy.
the garden
Want to share a nice seis font you designed? Feel free to send it to ma3ke.cyber@gmail.com or any other way of reaching me. If you want, I can display them right here in our little garden.
A set of 32×48 pixel digits.[^wip]
A set of chonky digits drawn in an experimental browser editor for seis fonts that Maya is making.
The name, “seis”, is the Frisian word for “six”.
Work in progress for the zine page.