Print dots ripple into each new time, with your pointer as a magnifying lens.
Halftone prints the time the way a newspaper prints a photograph: as a grid of dots that grow large where the digits are and shrink to specks around them. When the time changes, a ripple spreads out from the digit that changed and each dot springs to its new size as the ripple reaches it, so every second washes across the page.
Move your mouse or finger over it and the dots beneath swell, like a lens passing over newsprint; a vertical swipe still scrolls the page. Black ink on cream with the seconds in red, it reads 12-hour or 24-hour time, keeps still when your device asks for reduced motion and fills the whole screen in its own colours. It is one of the fifteen digital faces of Clock with Seconds.
Yes. The Halftone Clock is completely free, with no ads, no accounts and no cookies. Just open it in your browser and it runs.
No. The Halftone Clock runs entirely in your web browser — there is nothing to install and no account to create.
Yes. Open the clock and enter full screen to turn any monitor, laptop, or tablet into a dedicated halftone clock.
No. The seconds are what moves this design, so it always shows them, whatever the seconds setting says.
Yes. The Halftone Clock is responsive and works on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops.