Animated Fonts

In this lecture we will learn how to create animated fonts and kinetic typography.

Links

Research
- Using kinetic typography to convey emotion in text-based interpersonal communication
- CHEIRO: Creating Expressive Textual Communication and Antropomorphic Typography
Examples
- Kinetic Typography Channel on Vimeo
- Novoline by Andreas Gysin
- Typode by Santiago Ortiz
- TypeCon by Nicholas Felton
Libraries and Engines
- Ani Prossing Library by Benedikt Groß
- Kinetic Typography Engine by Johnny Chung Lee
- Generative Typography Tutorial by Amnon Owed
- Anitype Website

Think of a theme, an emotion or a story you want to express through animated typography
Create an animation in Processing
Upload the result to Vimeo

In this lecture we will explore different writing systems.

Create some kind of fictional alphabet

Create a Processing Sketch to display the letters of the alphabet — maybe draw a chart of letters (Did you know Processing can output PDFs?)
Use the RITA library to create text in your constructed script!
Please a short paragraph in the wiki detailing the background of your fictional alphabet / writing system / language
Just posting pretty pictures is not enough

Remember:

You have two weeks time to finish your homework!
Keep it simple. It’s okay if you create a writing system for a special domain (For example counting / numbers)

In this lecture we will explore 3D fonts.

Text in Space
- HoloPoetry by Eduardo Kac
- Takeluma by Peter Cho
- Tendril by Ben Fry
3D Glyphs
- Isometric Font by Maxim Tictac
- Type and Form by Carsten Schmidt
- Heterosis 3D curvestitching typography by Brian Benton

1. Create a a couple of 3D letters using the 3D tools we explored in class
2. Use the processing sketch to typeset them in 3D space Remember:

In this lecture we will explore optical character recognition

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