The audience can interact with the typeface and directly adjust their looks through moving the slide bars. The limitation of pixels, which is also the ‘resolution’ of the screen, can dramatically change the form of each letter. This reflects how we designed low-res typefaces on early computer screens and video games, a nostalgic feeling. The bigger the pixels are and the lower the resolution is, perhaps the further we go back in time.

By setting different parameters for two classic fonts, Helvetica and Minion, people can directly get a playful feel of typography and generate dynamic output.

Technical details

I used p5.js to anaylize the brightness of pixels of the original typeface, and set the pixels with the parameters before displaying on screen. The user can manipulate the pixel sizes and rounded corners of within a grided system, generating an unique set of fonts everytime they use.