Displays a palimpsest—a generated specimen of the 'average' shapes of numbers and letters, using all fonts on the system, overlaid at 20% opacity.
Some images! These were generated using almost 3500 fonts, excluding more unusual fonts.
Lowercase f |
Lowercase l |
Uppercase I |
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- Analyse percentage of overlap for each character to determine the most and least 'average' characters
- Design an 'average' font based on the palimpsest
- Generate palimpsests using fonts created by year to identify any progression in type trends over time (thanks Rohan Jhunja for the idea!)