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I am a design student working on my graduation thesis project. I plan to explore the development of a typeface that responds to variable factors of the user�s input. As a basic example, the weight or color of the face might change based on how fast it was entered by the user.

I am interested in researching existing typefaces that have unusual programming to see what precedents have been set. I�ve scoped out the experimental section here on Typophile and looked at �random� fonts such as Beowolf and Flipper. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions of other typefaces to look at, or books/articles/web sites that might be relevant to my project.

Thanks,
Angela Wolak

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The Twin Cities typeface developed by Lettererror responds to the weather in Minneapolis/St Paul. See http://www.letterror.com/portfolio/twin/index.html

You can see the font in action at http://design.umn.edu:8080/cgi-bin/ltrstr/tcdc/alternator?page=interface_004

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Some links that might be useful...

The Alphabet Synthesis Machine
http://alphabet.tmema.org/

Underware Typeworkshop
http://www.typeworkshop.com/index.php?id1=workshops

MIT Students
http://acg.media.mit.edu/courses/mas962/exhibition/

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Rob Meek's Typographic Synthesizer
http://www.robmeek.com/

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Angela, this is a great topic! And the links mentioned above already cover a lot of ground.

The one caution I would state early on is this: be careful to keep functionality always in sight - avoid turning things into self-serving formal aesthetic exercises.

BTW, the "g" in Analogue makes me think you should be designing type.

hhp

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Wow thats a great link Grant!

How come i didn't know about this one?
Good thing with Meeks's auto font maker is that the output is usable. (well for display copy anyway)

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Just wanted to express my gratitude to those who have posted so far; it can be hard to find work of this quality just using google searches. These are some really interesting projects and I especially appreciate seeing the different interfaces that have been used to present the typefaces. Thanks again!

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It works in DrawBot program (by sensei Erik van Blokland): DrawBotPixel font:
http://just.letterror.com/ltrwiki/DrawBot_2fPixelFont

Regards.

Ramiro Espinoza

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