Time and random repetition, a lecture I gave at letterspace.amsterdam about my clocks. It gives context to the clocks on this page.
- A few anti-clocks to solve a few important problems.
Oulipo clock, a clock in British words. In this clock no fifth glyph is shown.
- Jasperklok, it always says “Ja hoor, het is weer zo laat!”, which means something like “Right, it’s that time again”.
- Arduenn clock, it shows the correct time, regardless of timezone, only twice every 24 hours.
- 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.
Decimal clock, the time if we used the metric system for time as well.
- A QR code clock, and another one in Den Haag. You’ll need a phone to see what time it is on this clock.
- 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.
- 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.
- De klokkenklok, a clock with a clock on each hour. The clocks turn counterclockwise.
Dave clock, a single arm, pointing up at noon, and down at midnight.
- 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.
- An abstract alternative to the sun. While working on some nice geometric off clocks I stumbled upon this alternative for the sun.
Alphabetical clock, it orders the hours in alphabetical order, depending on the language you use in your browser.
- 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.
- A shadow clock, which shows the time in my shadowy self portrait.
- The OBA Clock, a 24 hour clock divided into three hour segments. Explanation here.
- 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.
RGB clock, the background colour changes based on time and the RGB colour notation. (Looks best in your Firefox browser.)
Wowclock, completely based on this incredible idea by Humans since 1982.
Geek time, the time to, or the time since 13:37.
- A political clock. A clock reflecting on the 2023 elections in the Netherlands.
- 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.
Greek time, the exact time, give or take an hour. There’s also an “analogue” version of this clock.
Binary clock, the time in binary.
- 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.
- ISO format square clocks. These are clocks where the hands always touch the outside of a square.
A distributed time logger, which logs the time when you, and everybody else, visit it. It works as a clock as well.
Cisterian clocks, which use a single glyph (and many colours) to tell the time. I made more cisterian clocks
Trixie NCND Typewriter clocks. Inspired by Erik van Blokland’s variable typewriter font I made a few clocks.- A wandering hour clock. An ingenious mechanism translated to CSS.
- 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.
HSL clock, the background colour changes based on time and the HSL colour notation.