Gallery: Mad Scientist Makes an Alphabet Out of Bizarre Ferrofluids
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These spidery, coral-like designs aren't just doodles. They form the Fe~2~O~3~ Glyphs alphabet.
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Craig Ward, an ex-ad man who creates unorthodox typographies, and Linden Gledhill, a biochemist who develops cancer therapies by day and conducts otherworldly chemical experiments in his extracurricular hours, made the type system together.
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In his lab, Gledhill experimented with ferrofluids (magnetic fluids) by spinning droplets of it between two glass plates. With every spin, the liquid would scatter into a unique, snowflake-like configuration.
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Ward is a designer, so saw the configurations and immediately thought of symbols, or hieroglyphics. Together they chose 138 of the designs and made them "type" characters.
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Letterpress prints of the type system are available through the duo's Kickstarter campaign. As for the font's usefulness? That's up to its admirers to decide.
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