Creating Avería: A Font Generated by Averaging All Computer Fonts
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JoshTriplett
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Summary
The article describes the creation of Avería, a unique font generated by averaging all the fonts on the author's computer. The author, who is not a professional type designer, explores the concept of "generative typography" through creative programming. The process involves overlaying each letter from different fonts at low opacity to create an average representation, resulting in an experimental typographic creation that blends characteristics from multiple typefaces.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer.
The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of 'generative typography'.
A Google on the subject brought up little, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that perhaps the process of averaging, or interpolating, existing fonts might bring up interesting results.
Instead I grabbed my laptop and came up with an initial idea for finding what the average of all my fonts might look like – by overlaying each letter at low opacity.
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