3*TYPE text leaps out at you

Ben Greenman invents the 3*TYPE 3*TYPE process, saves text-based media from ignominious death death.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Lady Katey

“I’ve never understood how people fall into the fallacy that fonts are even slightly important; but I’ve run into font fanatics that have taken down entire software companies down by pissing away the entire development budget on font fiddling so I suppose there must be some Satanic attraction to it…”

:shakes fist.: Typography does matter. It does effect how quicly or slowly people read. Different uses deserve different typography.
Robert

Boing Boing: prior art art!
Anonymous

I didn’t even think that Boing Boing itself is a demonstration of this principle. I read on Mediabistro this morning that a Belgian newspaper did exactly what Greenman invented, at the same time. It was crazy to think that his satirical idea came true. Anyway, I thought this was a brilliant piece.
cratermoon

<blink> tag, anyone?
- Maneki Nico
  
  Dude, I loooove(d) the <blink> tag. Itâ€™s just tragic that itâ€™s deprecated.
the Other michael

Seriously Seriously, prior art: 3D Sterogram Ascii Image Generator
Dewi Morgan

Deprecation is censorship! Campaign for blink in CSS! :P
Nadreck

SPOILER ALERT:

McSweeny’s is a (justly) famous satirical site.

I’ve never understood how people fall into the fallacy that fonts are even slightly important; but I’ve run into font fanatics that have taken down entire software companies down by pissing away the entire development budget on font fiddling so I suppose there must be some Satanic attraction to it…
Hools Verne

Papyrus isn’t good enough anymore?
Hools Verne

(secretly I hold a deep love in my heart of hearts for Papyrus)
Dewi Morgan

As a huge 3D lover (bathophile?), I’d love to write an app or plugin to do this, just for shits and giggles.

But I’m thousands of miles away from my 3D hardware, and my main machine, and I’ll have forgotten about it by the time I get home :(

Meh. I’m sure someone else’ll do it anyway.
- Chuck Houpt
  
  As requested, here is an implementation of 3*TYPE for HTML:
  
  http://extechops.net/2010/03/23/html-in-3d/
Anonymous

Papyrus is for the kids.

Comic Sans has class.
Glenn Fleishman

I recall having a long conversation with a digital type foundry person in 1991 about 3D type. It wasn’t NEARLY as interesting as this article.
sloverlord

I know this is utterly ridiculous, and it would be a total pain in the ass and waste of time if it ever became reality, but I have to admit… deep down there is a part of me that thinks it would be cool if certain words leapt LEAPT from the screen SCREEN. It would certainly give certain sentences more punch PUNCH.