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furyofantares 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The day I discovered type design

> Lettering design I did for my high school yearbook in 1974.

Anyone else get an optical illusion effect from this? Looks like it's continually zooming out to me.

jmcmichael 6 months ago | [–]

yeah, that’s called chromostereopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis

fuzzylightbulb 6 months ago | | [–]

Same. Those colors were an intentional (and effective) choice

_0ffh 6 months ago | [–]

I took a look and it's probably a color isoluminance effect.

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