Time and random repetition, a lecture I gave at letterspace.amsterdam about my clocks. It gives context to the clocks on this page.
- The shop clock uses the circular features of the Shop Sans Font. There’s a version which shows the minutes and seconds as well. And there’s another, more expressive version.
- The tattoo clock is a clock that fixes a tattoo. This tattoo of a clock didn’t have hands, and now it does. And they work.
- An abstract alternative to the sun. While working on some nice geometric off clocks I stumbled upon this alternative for the sun.
- A shadow clock, which shows the time in my shadowy self portrait.
- A shadowy gradient clock, which works really well on round displays. There’s also a more monumental version which works really well on rectangular screens.
- The OBA Clock, a 24 hour clock divided into three hour segments. Explanation here.
Geek time, the time to, or the time since 13:37.
- ISO format square clocks. These are clocks where the hands always touch the outside of a square.
Binary clock, the time in binary.
Alphabetical clock, it orders the hours in alphabetical order, depending on the language you use in your browser.
- Jasperklok, it always says “Ja hoor, het is weer zo laat!”, which means something like “Right, it’s that time again”.
- The literary clock, but this is a simple online version. There’s also a version that only shows inexact timestamps. Completely based on this brilliant idea by Jaap Meijers.
Wowclock, completely based on this incredible idea by Humans since 1982.
Cisterian clocks, which use a single glyph (and many colours) to tell the time. I made more cisterian clocks
- De Diek en Joke klok, a clock that’s a complete rip-off from a work of art at Diek and Joke’s house: four clocks on a square, each turned 90 degrees more than the others.
- A few anti-clocks to solve a few important problems.
- De klokkenklok, a clock with a clock on each hour. The clocks turn counterclockwise.
- The about, or thereabouts clock, a clock that uses a well known mechanism with words, to tell what time it is in an imprecise way. There’s also a Dutch version of this clock.
Greek time, the exact time, give or take an hour. There’s also an “analogue” version of this clock.
Decimal clock, the time if we used the metric system for time as well.
Dave clock, a single arm, pointing up at noon, and down at midnight.
HSL clock, the background colour changes based on time and the HSL colour notation.
A distributed time logger, which logs the time when you, and everybody else, visit it. It works as a clock as well.
- A political clock. A clock reflecting on the 2023 elections in the Netherlands.
- The Pix Clock, it shows the time on a picture with a clock that shows the time. Read more about it here, and please contribute of you want to.
- A wandering hour clock. An ingenious mechanism translated to CSS.
- Jasper’s about clock shows the exact time, but feels like pointing at an about time. This is done by moving the hour indicators 2.5 minutes.
RGB clock, the background colour changes based on time and the RGB colour notation. (Looks best in your Firefox browser.)
Trixie NCND Typewriter clocks. Inspired by Erik van Blokland’s variable typewriter font I made a few clocks.Oulipo clock, a clock in British words. In this clock no fifth glyph is shown.
- A variant of the klokkenklok, with again a clock on each hour. The clocks again turn counterclockwise, they’re just rotated in a different way. There are three clocks on each side of the square, they all three point in the same direction in this one.
- Arduenn clock, it shows the correct time, regardless of timezone, only twice every 24 hours.