Handwriting Fonts With Something to Say

I love this project!

I have worked a similar idea last year. Mine was extremely less elaborated since I did not create glyphs, and I did not make a Flash demo. I also did only one font. But I went further in the morals of playing with the content of people’s messages through OpenType technology. One can view and download my project here, if you are interested.

Papaelias is a genius! BRILLIANT!

Um, I typed in "fuck me" and it was replaced with "darn me". It's a very innocent 9-year-old girl.

Amy actually presented a prototype/predecessor to this project at the type crit at TypeCon04. And yeah, it fucking rocks. Who says OpenType is limited to faking lettering/calligraphy?

hhp

This is a really interesting and funny project, which raises a lot of fascinating questions. Is it even possible for handwriting to be type? Handwriting fonts are paradoxical at best: a central function of type is the regularization of writing, the creation of a fixed form of a letter. Handwriting fonts that try to mimic writing deny this part of type since real cursive forms of writing are always unique. Amy’s project suggests some post-typographic future where fonts are endlessly customizable (not only formally, like Beowolf, but linguistically) and unique to each user and iteration.

Wow.

Does the demo not work in Firefox? I didn't see the input boxes till I checked it out in IE.

this would be perfect for censorship in "sensitive" areas. What a goshdarn good idea!

What an incredible statement about censorship -- that's an awesome idea! It hints at the ways that language can trick us, and reminds me of the Magritte painting that told us "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

What's the big deal?
http://www.asksnoop.com/

Since 1911, da Linotype brand has produced typefaces fo' both da Arabic language 'n da Arab world, know what I'm sayin'?

Wow!

I love arty stuff like this. Wonderful effort indeed.

If she had the time, I think it would be great if she could put all of her other ideas and theories online - the ones that got edited out, as will happen, for thesis projects - or at least had some of those "go away" posters for sale.

>What’s the big deal?

Sorry, I missed the point at first.
I must confess my eyes were clouded by a prejudice against crappy faux kid-scripts and artspeak.
Inspiring work nonetheless.

this would be a better project if it directly confronted censorship and bias in language... there are so many examples of doublespeak in the media. you could change 'soldier' or 'troops' to 'peacekeepers' for example, or 'war' to 'peacekeeping mission,' or 'evolution' to 'intelligent design,' 'patriot act' to 'fascist agenda,' whatever, the list goes on...

of course reverse engineering it could be fun too. changing those media-coded terms back to their true meaning, then using it to decipher foxnews.com..

A brilliant idea as well!

hhp

Karen said, "It’s a very innocent 9-year-old girl."

I typed, "Screw you, arsehole." She said, "Screw you, arsehole." Not so innocent, perhaps.