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Kratin BhardwajProduct Designer
Selected Work · Section 03Type & Icon16 Assets · 08 Loops · 08 Stills
TYPOGRAPHY
& ICONOGRAPHY

Two crafts, one argument: nothing here is decoration. Typography gives language a body: grid, optical correction, hierarchy, and rhythm. Iconography compresses meaning into signs that behave as a family: one construction, one stroke logic, one metaphor language. 16 pieces across both disciplines, 8 in motion, every vector drawn live on this page.

01 · Typography02 · Iconography16 assets · 8 loops · Live vectors, no images
01 · Typography

Typography

Type is how words sound on a page. 10 studies in scale, axis, voice, object, and tension, each set rather than styled. 5 of them move.

01 — KERN-ING, OUT LOUD AFTER R12 · STATIC
TRACK −25 TIGHT, NOT TOUCHING OPTICAL kk ee rr nn -- ii nn gg 2 0 2 6 ®
02 — DRAWN, NOT TYPED AFTER R13 · STATIC
[ 01 ] [ 02 ] [ 03 ] [ 04 ] [ 05 ] [ 06 ] *Every letter and symbol in this section was drawn by hand — no ready-made fonts.
03 — SIGNAL AFTER R16 · LOOP
BENEATH THE BUZZ THERE'S A COMFORT IN THE HUM OF AN ANALOG SCREEN — SOFT NOISE, WARM GLOW, A MOMENT BETWEEN SECONDS. VOL. 09 LOST BROADCASTS UNDER THE GLASS LIVES A WORLD OF FORGOTTEN CHANNELS AND HALF- REMEMBERED STORIES. THIS IS THE SIGNAL STATE. SIGNAL LONG BEFORE EVERYTHING WAS SHARP AND INSTANT, WE WAITED FOR THE PICTURE, LINE BY LINE. THE NOISE WASN'T A MISTAKE — IT WAS A DOORWAY. STORIES WERE FOUND IN THE DISTORTION. TODAY THE BUZZ FEELS NOSTALGIC: ROOMS WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT LET THE SCREEN GLOW AND HUM.
04 — HYPNOSIS AFTER R2 · LOOP
LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · DON'T BLINK · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · ROUND AND ROUND · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · KEEP READING · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · STILL HERE · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · LOOK AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · AND AGAIN · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE · MAYBE ·

A portrait set entirely in type: nine rings of tracked micro-copy stand in for hatching. In motion, each ring rotates at its own period — the obsession is the typesetting.

05 — TEMPO AFTER R11 · LOOP
TEMPO POSTER SERIES SCALE: 1:1 1080 × 1080 PX FORMAT: SVG 07 // 20

Type as pavement: the word holds still, the object cuts through it. One diagonal is the only motion the poster needs.

06 — DEPTH AXIS AFTER R3 · LOOP
WGHT WGHT AXIS AXIS SINGLE FILE WGHT 100 — 900 WGHT LIVE 100 900 DPTH LIVE 000 048 SPEC 02 — DEPTH AXIS ONE FILE · EVERY WEIGHT
07 — NINE VOICES AFTER R5 · STATIC
AaGROTESQUE — 1898 AaDIDONE — 1784 AaGEOMETRIC — 1927 AaSLAB — 1845 AaHUMANIST — 1913 AaMONO — 1961 AaCONDENSED — 1906 AaOLDSTYLE — 1495 AaROUNDED — 1974 NINE VOICES · SAME TWO LETTERS · THE FACE IS THE PORTRAIT
08 — THE QUIET PART AFTER R9 · STATIC
, ? ; Who does the pause belong to? You set the words and think you have set the voice. But the room is run by the marks between them. A comma decides when the reader breathes. A semicolon holds two thoughts at arm's length; a question mark hands the microphone away. Set them carelessly and the sentence talks over itself. Set them well and nobody notices who was conducting.
09 — YES / NO / MAYBE AFTER R10 · LOOP
YES NO MAYBE STUCK BETWEEN IMPULSE AND HESITATION SAY IT? EVERY DRAFT IS A YELLOW LIGHT YES NO YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE? YES. NO. MAYBE?
10 — GLYPH, HAND-PULLED AFTER R20 · STATIC
PRTZL No. 26+1 GLYPH STUDY — “&”, HAND-PULLED TYPE AS OBJECT
SET, NOT STYLED — WORKING RULES
ANamed faces, chosen weights, declared optical sizes. Nothing default.
BHierarchy earns scale: a jump must change the reading order, or it doesn't happen.
CMotion carries typographic logic — tracking, weight, path — never wiggle.
DThe pause is set as deliberately as the word. White space is a glyph.
02 · Iconography

Iconography

A sign must read at a glance and behave as a family. 6 studies in construction, hand, taxonomy, state, mass, and fold, all drawn to 1 stroke logic. 3 of them move.

11 — THE EMPTY CHAIR AFTER R23 · STATIC
THE IDEA HANGS · THE SEAT WAITS

One warm filament, one orange chair, one hard shadow against a flat blue field. The whole scene reads before a single word is set.

12 — OPTICAL CORRECTION AFTER R1 · LOOP
[ 01 ] OVERSHOOT +6 [ 02 ] STROKE 13 · ROUND [ 03 ] OPTICAL CENTER +19 [ 04 ] SITS −4 460 / 640 ICON CONSTRUCTION KEYLINES VISIBLE PICTOGRAM 01 — REST DRAWN ON A 24PX GRID · SHOWN AT 26×
13 — STROKE LOGIC AFTER R4 · STATIC
STROKE LOGIC THE HAND RULESET — FOUR LAWS SPEC 04 01 TAPER — 8→2, ROUND OUT 02 RADIUS — R46 MIN R46 03 HATCH — DENSITY IS SHADING 10% 25% 45% 70% 04 PATTERN — FABRIC ONLY APPLIED — “SUNDAY READER” EVERY LIMB OBEYS ALL FOUR LAWS · NO EXCEPTIONS
14 — 24 ICONS, ONE GRID AFTER R7 · STATIC
SYSTEM 01 — 24 GLYPHS · ONE GRID · 8PX STROKE · ROUND TERMINALS · ONE SOLID MASS EACH
15 — OPEN MIND AFTER R18 · LOOP
a LEAVE ROOM FOR ONE MORE LETTER
16 — FOLDED, FOR STORAGE AFTER R19 · LOOP
STORAGE POSE — EVERY LIMB ACCOUNTED FOR
ONE HAND, MANY BODIES

The figures in this section — outlined, brushed, solid, folded — pass the family test because the rules never change: one stroke logic, flat fills, a solid mass to anchor every silhouette, and a joke somewhere in the pose.