Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

Given that what you are trying to obscure is likely text in whatever is default these days in Word at 11 points, I’m surprised I’ve never seen security patterns with lots of random overlapping text at that size. Nonetheless—very cool site.

always nice to see the methods pioneered by https://www.horg.com/horg/ applied to new fields

I am delighted that such a thing exists! I’ll never look at letters from the bank in the same way.

Tomas Pynchon has much to say about this in The Crying of Lot 49.

What a beautiful website! Good work!

This is cool. For some of these whimsy, ultra-niche nerdy labours of love it's sometimes a very web 1.0 experience (derogatory), or at best it'd be like OEIS which is perfectly functional but otherwise un-noteworthy in terms of design.

But TFA has great design and you can tell they don't take themselves too seriously. Love it.

I am delighted that such a thing exists! I’ll never look at letters from the bank in the same way.

always nice to see the methods pioneered by https://www.horg.com/horg/ applied to new fields

What a beautiful website! Good work!

Tomas Pynchon has much to say about this in The Crying of Lot 49.

But TFA has great design and you can tell they don't take themselves too seriously. Love it.

If you look closely in the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA, you’ll find sympathetic efforts.

If you’re here, then you too appreciate the fine art of making things hard to read. S.E.C.R.E.T. was founded to connect with fellow collectors, to create the first standardized security envelope pattern collection, and to delight in playful taxonomy. Adopting the coined term of Obscurationists, we celebrate the craft of secrecy.

Though the windowed envelope has existed since 1901, surprisingly little is known about the origins of the intriguing patterns hidden inside. And there’s something quietly beautiful about the mystery of it all.

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Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T

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