Measure for Measure

(04/25)

Measure for Measure

Following E.K. Chambers chronology1 Measure for Measure is Shakespeare's 17th drama.

Consisting of 900 tiles in the basic colour Blue, with a side length of 10 cm, the work is a square of 300 * 300 cm in the basic file. It's planned to be printed in 150 * 150 cm.

Rulebook

(09/23)

Tiles

Number

Measure for Measure contains 899 text blocks according to the general set of rules (898 speaker-based and 1 block created by division, as the text contains more than 34 lines). The number of tiles of the work is determined (due to the defined quadratic work) by the root of the text blocks rounded up to an integer. This results in 30 x 30 = 900 tiles. The resulting tile not occupied by text are created with the basic colour of the work 0-0-255 Blue and inserted at the 450th position.

Text Alignment

The alignment of the tiles according to the Rulebook of William Shakespeare's Plays is as follows:

centre-center 18%
centre-left 6%
centre-right 9%
top-centre 13%
top-centre 9%
top-right 12%
bottom-centre 10%
bottom-left 11%
bottom-right 12%

Background Colour

The applied background colour for Measure for Measure is 0-0-255 Blue.

Applying the colour matching rule set Rulebook results in 419 different colour values.

Text and bar colour

Applying the font colour rule set Rulebook results in 528 different colour values.
3988 lines of text were covered with bars. On average, each tile contains 4,4 lines of text.