
According to the website’s About page, Hitotoki
is a Japanese noun comprised of two components: hito or “one” and toki or “time,” and is often translated as “a moment.” In common usage, it can be used to describe any brief, singular stretch of time (if we share a meal someday, you can call that a hitotoki).
To put it in an easy way, Hitotoki is a narrative project I’ve found via Konigi, that collects novels related, a way or another, to a specific location. While Konigi points out the use of a Google map mash-up as navigation system (hovering over a thumb make the map move and vice versa), I was instead fascinated by this websites’s typographic treatment.
In fact, using Hoefler text with a strict line-height space make home page titles slighlty overlapping in a haphazard, designless way that perfectly fits in the trembling, hand-drawn layout frame.
So if you’re looking for a fresh, organic typographic treatment for your website design, maybe you should really give a glance at Hitotoki.
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