Liquid Type

A word drawn in fine ribbons softens into a flowing sheet. Letters shear, ripple and pull apart, hovering between readable type and abstract linework.

Liquid Type: A word drawn in fine ribbons softens into a flowing sheet. Letters shear, ripple and pull apart, hovering between readable type and abstract linework.Liquid Type: A word drawn in fine ribbons softens into a flowing sheet. Letters shear, ripple and pull apart, hovering between readable type and abstract linework.

About this pattern

Original GART geometric alphabet · animated ribbon deformation

Liquid Type, signed distance function, drawn by GART: A word drawn in fine ribbons softens into a flowing sheet. Letters shear, ripple and pull apart, hovering between readable type and abstract linework.
Liquid Type · CC BY 4.0

Horizontal ribbons are cut from a geometric glyph field and carried through a smooth, time-dependent deformation. Legibility controls the deformation amplitude. The motion is a seamless twenty-second wave cycle, not a fluid simulation or a font effect applied after export.