Make a cool reflected alphabet pattern in Drawbot.

abc-grid-flipped.drawbot.py

"""
    Make a cool reflected alphabet pattern.
    
    Inspired by Klaus Burkhardt and Reinhard Döhl, Rot 40: 
    Poem Structures In the Looking Glass, Edition Rot, Stuttgart, 1969.
    
    https://twitter.com/Lett_Arc/status/1375252819620466688
"""

s = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

w, h = 2160, 2700
padding = 112
fontSize = w* 0.027

newPage(w, h)
rect(0,0,w,h)

fill(1)
lineHeight(fontSize*0.845)
tracking(fontSize*0.027)

font("HelveticaNeue",fontSize)
# font("NameSansDisplay-Bold",fontSize) # actually made to look best with Name Sans

def drawABC():
    draw = ""
    for i, c in enumerate(s):
        draw += s[i:] + s[:i] + "\n" 
    
    textBox(draw,(0, 0, w/2-w*0.0005, h/2), align="right")
    
drawABC()

with savedState():
    transform((-1, 0, 0, 1, w, 0))
    drawABC()

with savedState():
    transform((1, 0, 0, -1, 0, h))
    drawABC()

with savedState():
    transform((-1, 0, 0, -1, w, h))
    drawABC()

import os
currentDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

saveImage(currentDir + "/grid.png")