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Deke's Techniques 046: Rendering a Portrait in Type

Deke's Techniques 046: Rendering a Portrait in Type

Anyone who knows the ins and outs of the printing business is familiar with halftone dots. Viewed up close, you see the colored dots; viewed from a distance, the dots resolve into a continuous-tone image. This week, I take on something similar. Only instead of dots, I substitute characters of text. Viewed up close, you see letters. Viewed from a distance---or merely, as a whole---the letters resolve into a photograph. Either way, the text remains legible as text.

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