It's interesting that shapes are clearly seen even though fonts on the web are quite noisy, here's a random sample of things that make up the A above
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The Average Font
I came across this post post where the author created a font by averaging together all fonts on his machine. I thought it would be cool to do the same for all fonts on the internet -- here's the average of about 375k distinct fonts
It's interesting that shapes are clearly seen even though fonts on the web are quite noisy, here's a random sample of things that make up the A above
It's interesting that shapes are clearly seen even though fonts on the web are quite noisy, here's a random sample of things that make up the A above
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I especially like the two guys carrying a dead goat.
How did you determine that fonts were distinct?
They are distinct if the binary files are not bit-by-bit identical. So there are probably a few hundred copies of Arial, Helvetica, etc
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Incredible shapes of fonts....something seen very rare..!!
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