Experiment

Glyph Lab

A playground that turns variable fonts into generative halftone posters.

Project data

Designers wanted to explore halftone typography without exporting to heavy desktop tools.

How it was built

Six phases from the first conversation to the release. The bar shows how the time was split.

4 weeks in total

Research
Two designers sketched the type experiments they wanted to try, which set the first list of controls.
2 days · List of controls
Architecture
Data model, rendering strategy and API contracts were agreed before the first screen was drawn.
2 days · ADR, data model
Interface
A component inventory and responsive layouts, built entirely from design tokens.
4 days · Token set, component inventory
Build
Features went live in small slices behind flags, with typed boundaries between client and server.
8 days · Feature slices
Testing
Unit, end-to-end and accessibility checks ran on every pull request.
2 days · Test suite in CI
Deployment
Every branch got a preview environment; the production rollout was a single click.
2 days · Preview and release pipeline
Result
Used in two poster series; the public beta opens soon.
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