Letter heads, by Firefox labs

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this is extremely fun to play with and smoothly done.

If you dig this, please also see the work of Kumi Yamashita, who does similar shadow artwork with letters and shapes, but in real life.

http://kumiyamashita.com/

some stuff is super hard to believe, like:

http://kumiyamashita.com/images/BUILDING-BLOCKS-FOR-WEB.jpg

other artists working in this genre too:

http://www.designer-daily.com/remarkable-shadow-art-405

Wow, this is some nice works!

More proof that web typography is finally reaching the state it should have been in a long time ago. I love it!

a perfect mix of great design and vision and programming :) i smiled when i realized what the title really meant!

This actually looked and performed great on the iPad 2. (You just couldn't move the shadow around)

Wow! How did you figure out all the letter arrangements?

Unfortunately I didn't do it. It's all part of the Firefox demos for Firefox 4 https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/

Can someone explain this to a typography ignorant person please?

What is there to explain. The shadow of the text makes a silhouette of a head.

And the shadow is really just the same arrangement of letters in black. I thought it was canvas at first because it was blurry, but they use CSS text-shadow for that effect.

The curious can prove this by pressing Ctrl-A to select the letters (and all other text on the page).

Perfect use of the medium - Great work.

Crashing on Chrome 9, Windows XP

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