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About Cat's Eye Marbles

The cat's-eye marble is a small miracle of mass production: a clear glass sphere with a 4-to-6 blade colored vane suspended inside, born in Japanese glassworks and churned out by the millions in American factories from the 1950s on. Light bends through the dome, the vane glows aqua-green, and the whole thing throws a soft round shadow.

This system borrows that honest transparency. Surfaces read like glass — refractive, luminous, cool — and everything floats on a deep teal ground dark enough to let the swirl and its shadow pop. Rounded display type and clustered circular cards keep it tactile and friendly, never slick.

Learn more about the Cat's Eye Marbles style

Origin
North America and Japan
Era
1950–1990 (machine-made cat's-eye marble era)
Key figures
Vitro Agate · Marble King · Japanese glassworks · American marble factories
Movements
glass craft · mass-market toys · mid-century play culture

Cat's Eye Marbles design spec

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Surface
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Typography

FredokaHeadings
NunitoBody
QuicksandMono
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