I'd love to see the results for the same process used on monospace fonts.
Avería: The Average Font (2011)
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Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#22Btw, "Avería" means "failure" in spanish
Arabic ʕawāriyya for (goods) damaged in transit > Catalan avaria for a breakdown, damage > Spanish avería for a breakdown, something that has failed
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#23I've used Averia (Serif Libre, specifically) for at least a decade as my primary font for email, web pages in 'reader' mode, writing long-form text, etc. I find it extremely legible, and even calming. Ironically, I've been a typographer for decades, both for print and online. Averia might seem an odd choice for someone intimately familiar with typographic theory/history and the vast catalog of possible fonts. But the…
It's kind of like how if you take the average of enough male or female human faces, the result is a very pleasing, attractive face.
Same with music, a large group of people singing slightly off-key (each in their own way) tends to sound pretty good in aggregate
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#24Does this font simply ... Not look good to anyone else? It is visually kind of uncomfortable to behold. Maybe it's because it's a bit blurry feeling.
It sort of suggests to me that there's a lot going on with typeface design that we take for granted.
Edit: on closer inspection, the letter forms are kind of all over the place. The humps on the 'm' are lopsided, letter heights are sort of random. I think it's an interesting idea but to make it a more useful font would take a lot of manual fine tuning.
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#25Does this font simply ... Not look good to anyone else? It is visually kind of uncomfortable to behold. Maybe it's because it's a bit blurry feeling. It sort of suggests to me that there's a lot going on with typeface design that we take for granted. Edit: on closer inspection, the letter forms are kind of all over the place. The humps on the 'm' are lopsided, letter heights are sort of random. I think it's an intere…
It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rendered https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Averia+Libre
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#26Does this font simply ... Not look good to anyone else? It is visually kind of uncomfortable to behold. Maybe it's because it's a bit blurry feeling. It sort of suggests to me that there's a lot going on with typeface design that we take for granted. Edit: on closer inspection, the letter forms are kind of all over the place. The humps on the 'm' are lopsided, letter heights are sort of random. I think it's an intere…
It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rende…
Wow, that looks completely different than how Safari rendered the site. Thanks for the link. I like the look of it hosted at Google.
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#27This is really cool. There's something very pleasing about precisely how unobtrusive it feels. You can also view the specifically serif-only and sans-serif-only versions here:
http://iotic.com/averia/preview.php
I think it would be really cool if a designer used these as a starting point for overall metrics, but then regularized and cleaned them up to exhibit consistent proportions and elements from character to character, without the wobbly parts. It really feels like it would become an ideal font family for reader mode, for journaling, just any time you want to focus on content and have a font that just "gets out of the way".
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
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Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#29We already have the average font and it’s the execrable Lato.
Re: Avería: The Average Font (2011)
#30Does this font simply ... Not look good to anyone else? It is visually kind of uncomfortable to behold. Maybe it's because it's a bit blurry feeling. It sort of suggests to me that there's a lot going on with typeface design that we take for granted. Edit: on closer inspection, the letter forms are kind of all over the place. The humps on the 'm' are lopsided, letter heights are sort of random. I think it's an intere…
It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rende…
Aaahhh, thank you.
It still looks a little funky but way more readable.