‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators

85 points · 25 comments · bovermyer

  1. sandgraham · · focus · HN ↗
    Reminds me of Urbit sigils. They had a really cool system for generating unique visual identities. The write up is one of my favorite design/tech articles:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;urbit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;creating-sigils" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;urbit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;creating-sigils.

    1. kazinator · · focus · HN ↗
      That is conscious; the page references oracle bone script &#x2F; seals as being close to their concept, and kamon as being even closer.
Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.