Speech, drawn in dots

The picture

Each picture is one familiar signal, made of the dots it is already made of on a screen.

• One signal per picture: a waveform, a globe, a ring of bars. Something people already read as data.
• Simple forms only. Dots hold an arc, a sphere, a ring, a map. They don't hold a thin line drawing: an icon or an object in dots falls apart. Use 3D for those.
• Spatial: every picture lies on a surface in space (an arc, a sphere, a ring) and is seen in perspective.
• Still or slow. A globe turns once in two minutes, a ring in ninety seconds; a voice flickers like speech. Nothing jumps.

The dot

Size

2.4 px at 1× (the landing's), the same in every picture

Pitch

~7 px along a line, ~9 px across a surface

Depth

alpha only: far dots fainter, never smaller

Colour

one per picture, by the ground

• One size, one colour. No bigger dots, no accent dots, no second colour, no shading.
• The colour by the ground: ink on white, Floor and Card (it reads grey through its alpha); white on Primary Dark; Primary Dark on Lime.
• No fades and no vignettes. The picture stops at its own edge or at the card's.

In a card

• Text on one side, the picture on the other, running off the card's edge.
• The text is a title, a line and a link, in Struve, without the marker.

See it in use ↗