Outline · Anchor Points
A poster built from Bézier paths. White tubes, red anchor points, handles pulled outside the curves. Green letters run off the edges of the frame.
Why this week's poster
I wanted to show the skeleton of a letter.
Every letter is a set of paths.
Anchor points.
Handles.
Curves.
I built them as physical parts.
The word fit: outline.
The paths trace the edge of every letter.
Handles sit outside the shape they control.
The letters run outside the frame.
The build
- Objects. Bézier paths modelled as white tubes. Red glossy beads mark the anchor points. Straight rods form the handles. Small collars cover the joins.
- Letters. Letters from the word outside, scaled large and rotated. They overlap each other. The biggest forms bleed off the left and right edges.
- Colour. Flat green fills. White type. Pink where the type overlaps the fill. Navy to charcoal behind.
- Lighting. Soft, even light across the fills. Gentle highlights run along the tube edges. The background lifts at the top and falls dark at the corners.
- Texture. Satin white tubes. Glossy red points. Green with a slight gradient across each form.
- Type. White grotesque. Outside is set twice, top right and bottom left. Each setting breaks after outs and turns 90 degrees. Date and URL sit small in the corners.
What worked
- The tubes read as real objects, not outlines.
- The red points give each curve a clear start and end.
- Pink overlaps stand out against the green.
- Cropping the letters at the edges pushes the scale.
What I'd push next time
- Handles on every curve, not only the large ones.
- A second material pass on the anchor points.
- A motion test: drag a handle and watch the letter change shape.
Close
Every letter carries its own points.
This poster shows them.
Read the word, then follow the paths.
