11 / 25·Typography & Craft
FORGE
Metal type foundry. Lead, fire and the letterpress case.
About the work
A type foundry site lit by an ember field — additive-composited sparks that answer your clicks — where the specimen sorts sit mirrored, as real lead type does, and flip to read true when you reach for them.
How it was made
The mirrored sorts are the site's one trick and everything defends it: the flip easing, the case grid, the ember light. A late pass rebalanced the grid so no sort orphans onto a second row at intermediate widths.
Like every work in the exhibition, it passed three full iteration passes — a visual critique, a deepening pass, and a QA pass at 390px with reduced motion and zero console errors — and documents itself in its own build guide.
Key features
- Ember particles with lighter compositing and click bursts
- Sorts displayed mirrored, flipping legible on hover
- Foundry-case grid as the layout system
- Heat palette built from fire scale, not brand orange
Technology
- Canvas particles
- CSS transforms
- GSAP
In its own light
