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