Cadence

Set in Recursive

A reading-tempo manifesto

SLOWER

You are reading this faster than you think. Cadence keeps a pace you can feel in the letters.

Scroll quickly and watch the word lose its footing

The sentence that feels your speed

When the words are heavy you slow to carry them; race the line and it thins to a whisper and leans away, so a page can only be read at the tempo it was set.

Three things a letter knows

Weight is time. A heavy letter asks you to wait for it.
Speed is loss. Rush the line and it leans out of your reach.
Tempo is meaning. How fast you read is part of what you read.

Set the tempo yourself

Read me slowly and I am here, upright and sure.

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The axes above are driven only by how fast you are scrolling right now.

Read like you mean it.

Cadence · a fictional movement, one variable typeface (Recursive), no images.