SYS-32 // WORKSHOP // P700

Tool

Click a cell, then type. Arrows move, Enter drops a line.

Pages

Eight pages in one session — a whole week of transmissions. All of them live in the project file.

Alpha colour — text

Graphics colour — blocks

Control codes

A code occupies one cell and shows as a space. That indent is what real teletext looked like.

Reveal stages

Stages 6

Brush stage

Preview stage all

Page view

Zoom 2

Show grid & stage tint

CRT treatment on export

Output framing

Pixel aspect

Frame

9:16 gives you 1080×1920 with the page centred — drop it straight on a Reel timeline.

Animate

Build style

Step delay 60ms

Chars per step 1

Hold at end 1.5s

Output scale 2×

Show typing cursor

Only 8 colours, so files stay small and pin-sharp. No CRT on GIF — use PNG stages for that.

edit.tf

Export

Page 1/8 Cursor 0,0 Char — Stage here 0 Brush 1

Fill row lays a full-width bar in the current graphics colour with one click. Box drags a bordered panel — hold Shift on release for a solid one. Select drags a region: Ctrl+C / X / V to copy, cut, and paste at the cursor, Delete clears, Escape drops the selection. Everything is undoable with Ctrl+Z.

Stages still drive the PNG sequence: number the cells, hit Stage rows ↓ for an automatic build-up, and Download all stages gives you one numbered frame per step. Flashing cells now actually blink in the editor.

The whole session — all eight pages, every setting in every tab — autosaves in this browser and lives in one project file via Save all up top.

Mode

Letterforms

Grid

Cells

Cells filled 55%

Variance 12

Compactness 0.55

Cell form

Corner treatment

Corner size 0.45

Cell gap 0.00

Cell inset 0.00

Render

Set text

Tracking 0.30

Export

Set text

Key — click a glyph to edit it

Seed 32 Grid 5×7 Format SVG · vector

Copy

Headline

Body — one line each

Footer

Load a written notice

Symbol

Mark

Mark size 0.22

Type

Face

Headline size 1.00

Body size 1.00

Tracking 0.06

Line spacing 1.45

Frame

Format

Border weight 0.020

Inset 0.075

Corner radius 0.00

Corner registration marks

Rule above footer

Hazard hatching

Colour

Scheme

Export

Format 4:5 Output SVG · vector

Keep it flat and boring. The whole trick is that it should look like something you'd walk past in a multi-storey — no styling, no flourish. The words do the work; the design just has to get out of the way.

Signage sans uses Helvetica or Arial, so convert type to outlines in Illustrator before sending anything to print. Block uses the same 5×7 font as the other two tools and exports as solid shapes, so it needs no fonts at all.

Every notice is a post and a shirt. That's why this one's worth having.

Source

Line weight 14

Source cutoff 128

Sequence

Generations 6

Collapse curve

Layout

Spacing 6

Decay

Softening 0.55

Toner noise 0.50

Cutoff drift +0.30

Dropout 0.35

Feed tear 0.20

Seed

Output

Polarity

Background

Cell resolution

Export

Gen 6 Cell 600px Output — Seed 32 Render —

Each generation is a photocopy of the one before it. Errors compound, so thin lines break before thick ones and the collapse accelerates on its own.

Transparent for garment prints. 900px at six generations gives a 3600px strip — enough for a back print.

SYS-32

Set text

Key — click a glyph to edit it

Click cells to toggle · corner treatment applies automatically