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This thing was constructed on April 17, 2007, and it was categorized as design, genetic-algorithms, infovis, research, social, synthesis.
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genoTyp is an incredibly interesting experiment in genetic typography by Michael Schmitz. I have a strong interest in the idea of genetic algorithms and the elegance with which genoTyp allows the genetic creation of new fonts is impressive.

Font family

From the site:

genoTyp is an experiment regarding fonts under genetic aspects. Their characteristics are encoded in hereditary factors. Different fonts can be mixed as desired and their genomes can be manipulated. New fonts are generated according to genetic rules.

Very cool. The idea of font families takes on a whole new meaning.

This thing was constructed by
Matthew Hockenberry
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Matthew is the Director of the Collaborative. He writes rarely, and that makes him sad.

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  1. Back and forth: Ecce Homology :: Creative Synthesis
    Posted May 16, 2007 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

    [...] happened across this post at information aesethetics that offers a nice juxtaposition of the previous post on using genetic algorithms to generate fonts. Here font becomes the expression of genetic data: a [...]

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