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Laika, a dynamic typeface
- jcl 17y agoThe idea of parameterized typefaces is an old one; I guess this example is interesting in that it attempts to parameterize between a serif and sanserif typeface.
- gjm11 17y agoKnuth's paper "The concept of a meta-font" (from 1981) has a nice example in which he typesets Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd ..."), changing the parameters of his font a little with every character. It's sans-serif at one end, serif at the other. (Among other things.) Regrettably, this demonstration doesn't seem to be available online. You can find it, e.g., in Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas".
- harpastum 17y agoI found the passage in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas on Google Books [1]. Here's an image of it: http://blog.samwarmuth.com/post/218259393/figure-12-1 http://blog.samwarmuth.com/post/218259393/figure-12-1 [1]Metamagical Themas: http://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22Metamagical%20Themas%22&pg=PA241#v=onepage&q=lord%20is%20my%20shepherd&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&lpg=PP1...
- stevenbedrick 17y agoLooks like somebody hooked up METAFONT to some hardware controls... nifty UI hack, but, as JCL already said, far from new.
- omouse 17y agoRe-invention beats invention everytime. I think Stewart Brand of Whole Earth Catalog fame said that.
- mikegioia 17y agoI thought this was fantastic. In that vid it looked like it might have been some new way to create fonts. I think that would be an interesting thing to research or develop. Something where you can, through mechanical devices "feel out" a new font. Or maybe one where you can record a new font similar to how you record an audio track. Hook up a keyboard and the typeface creates itself based on the audio spectrum you create. You could have fonts that are almost alive.
- gb 17y agoYou can actually try it on the site, by the way: http://laikafont.ch/applet/test.html http://laikafont.ch/applet/test.html