# Photo — Switch letter mask

A single letterform punched out of the page, photographs streaming through it while the glyph melts from one character into the next.

Source: https://steevepommier.com/motion/photo-switch-letter-mask/
Section: Motion
Published: 2026-07-07
Tags: 2d, typography

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A giant character fills the frame as a window: inside its strokes the current
photograph shows, outside is flat paper. Both layers change on their own clocks
— the photos hard-cut through the set at their own rhythm while the letter
continuously reshapes, one glyph's outline flowing into the next through
in-between forms that belong to neither.

The glyph is never rendered as type. Its outline is sampled into a cloud of
points, and morphing means easing every point toward its counterpart in the
next character's cloud; drawn fat into a mask buffer, the dots fuse back into a
solid letter. A single word split into characters, a list of strings, or the
digits zero to nine by default supply the sequence.