[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Re: Anitype!

[vernon adams]

I’ve been wondering if the technology can be applied to other more interesting uses.


On 18 Dec 2013, at 09:31, Richard Fink <rfink0553 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had checked this out when Dave first posted it and I think it's dynamite. I can't wait to see this done with other letterforms.
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> There are sections in the work of Professor Richard Lanham (an expert in Rhetoric and the use of words who's written some McLuhanesque stuff describing letterforms snaking and jumping around just like this) Anyway, it reminded me of Lanham's writings.
> Prescience.
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> yes, I know that many designers and certainly most print font creators are going to look upon this as the second coming of the BLINK tag but I think it will find it's place.
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> Very cool.  
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> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:48:08 PM UTC-5, Dave Crossland wrote:
> http://www.anitype.com/ the
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> "Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move? 
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> For thousands of years, letters have sat static on the page, but 
> thanks to today's modern devices, they could do a lot more — they 
> could dance and jump and wriggle their way across the screen. And you 
> could help decide how they move. 
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> Anitype invites you to animate letters with JavaScript, so we can 
> begin to see what an animated typeface might look like on the web." 
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