Typophile

Toypography

Craig Eliason

These clever blocks in a word can spell the word in English and Japanese and form a picture.

(found via BoingBoing)

This is brilliant.

Some of the roman characters that come out of these, while perfectly legible, have some irregularities in form (at the joins, cusps, etc.) I wonder how pure (strictly, hair-splittingly speaking) the characters come out on the Japanese end.

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