Dotglow is a typeface developed from Recueil des divers caractères (1808), a French type specimen by J.G. Gillé. Rather than a direct revival, the project translates the high-contrast logic of early display typography into a system of dots. Stroke weight is reinterpreted as density: thick forms accumulate into near-solid fields, while thin strokes disperse toward disappearance.
Across the typeface, letters oscillate between legibility and afterimage. Forms are held not by continuous outlines, but by the persistence of distributed marks. Dotglow treats contrast as a spatial and temporal condition, where typography shifts from fixed structure to something more atmospheric.
Robofont, AfterEffects
