Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a typical example of Tom7's technically astounding and playful videos.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

suckerpinch

Topic

anagraphs

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here's a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc. Tom7, …

• This is great! It reminds me of a Tom7 video of a similar ilk: Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs" - [VIDEO] . Similar to this, he produces a standard form for each word, but breaks each letter into letter pieces or …

• His video on anagraphs is interesting ( [VIDEO] ) especially if watched alongside his followup video proving that generalized kerning is an undecidable problem ( [LINK] )