Kast, redux: true isometric projections, in fields (2019)
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I drew the initial versions of Kast with the sort of faux-isometric projection you can get using simple quadrille graph paper. In the fall of 2019 I finally redrew the outlines using a true isometric projection, where all three dimensional axes are equally foreshortened and at 120º to each other. I also drew a 2 × 2 × 3 version (to accompany the original 2 × 2 × 4 version), and for both, inverse versions (with virtual cubes where in the originals were spaces, and vice-versa) and reverse version (where the letters are drawn 180º from the original point of view).
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The fonts are built in @roboFontEditor; they’re drawn with a Python script in @drawbotapp, and I made the fields in DrawBot as well. Text: ‘Italo Calvino Invisible Cities’ and the inscrutable writing from Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35679ef180c4068cd78845969db56988debaae85d7c5fcaf45950580769cb877/kast_sample.png)
I drew the initial versions of Kast with the sort of faux-isometric projection you can get using simple quadrille graph paper. In the fall of 2019 I finally redrew the outlines using a true isometric projection, where all three dimensional axes are equally foreshortened and at 120º to each other. I also drew a 2 × 2 × 3 version (to accompany the original 2 × 2 × 4 version), and for both, inverse versions (with virtual cubes where in the originals were spaces, and vice-versa) and reverse version (where the letters are drawn 180º from the original point of view).
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3fe282074546301d982166c5231a6fa548b41b18563a1fe12e2c9f780fcdc11/79967257_1081898362141324_8072443257103427648_n.jpg)
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cc15b429f78240e542dd9102e8f3fa77290522c3741c8ce3329fe7283a8a480/kast_4_joinedpaths_2020-02-04-063240.635512.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c071004d2564df6b41c4b8c7df1d166b6d27172e5f46c269990f61cef56bea3/kast_3_joinedpaths_2020-02-04-181759.598446.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e7cbea52de5078bb6067f0a72e1ce9862bd91dd53b3620487be06588ad4d003/kast_3_joinedpaths_2020-02-03-152804.249645_smaller.png)
The fonts are built in @roboFontEditor; they’re drawn with a Python script in @drawbotapp, and I made the fields in DrawBot as well. Text: ‘Italo Calvino Invisible Cities’ and the inscrutable writing from Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.