Reminds me of Averia, a font made by averaging fonts. http://iotic.com/averia/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877025
That's actually a surprisingly-good-looking font.
Meh, it looks pretty average.
This Typeface’s Letters Are the Average of the World’s Handwriting
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#22Does this average include all the 6 year olds of the world?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not sure what I would do with such a typeface! WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO DOESN'T LOVE ALLCAPS? I DON'T NEED NUMBERS, EITHER. X EQUALS FIVE MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NINETY NINE POINT ONE FIVE FIVE SIX THREE. SEE? IT'S LIKE I'M WRITING IN COBOL. THIS IS FUN.
Where did you get those question marks and periods from?
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#24Like my buddy Leo, I write in mirror image. Should I...
Oh, neat. Are you left handed by any chance? Have you written about that decision/habit anywhere that I could read? It sounds somewhat interesting.
e.g. Has it been inconvenient in many situations? Should I assume that that implies that you can read mirror image just as well? Why/at what point did you decide to start doing that?
Sorry if this sounds nosy, but I'm curious as to whether that would help avoid smudging more easily for people who are left handed (which I think I've heard can lead to avoiding certain types of pens?). (I personally am not left handed)
Of course, don't feel obligated to answer.
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#25Why would you have an image with "The quick brown fox" without "jumps over the lazy dog"? The whole point of the phrase is to use every letter.
Something suggests it's an attempt to keep the font from being appropriated. Though if it's used, that won't last long. And letterforms aren't copyright-protected (though the software by which they're derived may be: the basis of font copyrights in software).
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#26Reminds me of Averia, a font made by averaging fonts. http://iotic.com/averia/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877025
This reminds me very strongly of older moveable-type fonts. No, not the blogging engine, but physical moveable type made of melted tin and lead hand-set in a press.
The letterforms are influenced by the dies from which they're cast, and are further worn and damaged with age, both softening the overall shape and introducing quirks to them. You'll find print from older books -- generally 19th century and prior, sometimes much prior, tend to look like this.
I like the effect.
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#27I'm reminded of Kevan Davis' "Smaller Picture" web experiment that has been running since 2002. Using a grid of random bits, readers could choose to vote to flip a bit forming a given letter or picture. You can also view a time-lapse animation. Unfortunately, the letters ("Typophile") are no longer online. :(
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#28Wouldn't most people using the Latin alphabet be using cursive?
This does look more like "This Typeface's Letters Are the Average of America's Handwriting" or perhaps the researchers asked for only upper-case letters.