A 72-module dingbat font and a Processing program, both made for the project. The program randomly picks three glyphs that, interlocked, form a continuous pattern. On the front of this grid, the magazine’s logo, drawn with the same font, is placed at random. A single glyph, also picked at random, marks the spine and draws the number 12 on the back cover.
The project is part of Contrast’s research on modularity and irregular patterns, bringing together typography, software and art.
Issue 12 was produced the way publications were made in the last century: text set in Linotype, titles in movable type and images from printing blocks, combined with screen printing, flexography, digital printing and hot stamping.
It has two covers: Contrast’s, with variable data, and another printed with historic types from the Faelpa print shop, by gilding (hot stamping).