Elien generative monospace typeface
Hello!
I've designed and developed elien in Processing. Its glyphs are generated by metaballs. A varying number of balls random sizes is overlain on a letter skeleton. The interactive application generating elien allows you to input text and alter different parameters – scale, spacing, density, contrast, levels and dissolve. This approach yields unlimited variations of styles and weights. You
may export the generated graphics in PDF Format.
A demo version is available here:
http://elien.tatssachen.de/launch
More infos about how elien works can be found here:
http://elien.tatssachen.de
27.Jan.2009 12.17pm
This is cool.
27.Jan.2009 2.26pm
This is quite nice (including the great web interface).
I do keep reading "meatballs" however. :-)
Although this is already quite accomplished
(PDF export too?!) I do have two suggestions:
1) Allow the customization of the skeletons. For one thing this would lead to support of non-Latin scripts.
2) Have a mode where all the letters in a string can be connected, with the same style of rendering; either by having a simple line going through the text, or maybe something more complex, like some letters with the tops connected and others with the bottoms. I think that bring the "circuit" look full circle, and allow for some wonderful texture generation (like those DNA "imprints" or something).
hhp
28.Jun.2009 2.10pm
Wow, great job!