I have a vague goal of doing daily or at least regular typography experiments here in 2018, here's day one: applying perlin noise to positions of points along the path of the text #typography https://mastodon.social/media/P-VAKr6F5x5QeQitrTE

in the same vein more or less, hmm. probably not that much more of interest can be done with just having a list of x, y coordinates https://mastodon.social/media/Y24AHCBl_AfnIPBiOy4

each point in one word moves to the nearest point in the next word https://mastodon.social/media/b-32WNDAFvd9XDXbM0A

adding a bit of randomness into the distance function... https://mastodon.social/media/-frlr0-lViTLcsO6EAY

based on yesterday's code, here's the entire alphabet (uppercase and lowercase) with each letter's points a little more than halfway lerped to the next https://mastodon.social/media/WsrdYvLeDyuV7MXCTWM

perhaps not surprisingly, a little less successful with a delicate serif font https://mastodon.social/media/sh4XjS9VxO7UmLWFgME

again building off the same code, a matrix showing all possible halfway-interpolations between points in the letters (i.e., top row is (A+A)/2, (A+B)/2, (A+C)/2, etc.) (matrix is not symmetric because letters have different numbers of points)

hi-res here since mastodon downsampled it http://static.decontextualize.com/alphabet-lerp-matrix-2018-01-07.png

today: speculative letterforms made from stitching together top/bottom halves of randomly rotated letters (I have more ambitious ideas for this, just trying to do some foundation work today) https://mastodon.social/media/IqrbvTrThNYXQkt8jrs

continuing this experiment: trying to match top halves to bottom halves based on how similar the points are through their horizontal center line (also fixed the rotation here to increments of π/8 radians) https://mastodon.social/media/JTU2hQbVTvoqYYC1Szc

stringing together middle segments of letterforms based on similarity at the top and bottom of the segments https://mastodon.social/media/gvRrkTRdANymacTOuFI

(has some random rotation on the points of the letterforms themselves and on where each segment is drawn beneath the previous)