A purple square with the words "Polite Type" in tall, skinny, white letters.A landscape purple rectangle with the words "Polite Type" in thick white letters.
About Beth Fileti

Light Array Motion Font

A font, created in openFrameworks, that relies solely on motion.

The text reads "Black Lives Matter." The white text is on a black background. The text is on a green background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.
The text reads "100% code" with decorative ornaments around it. The white text is on a red background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.
The text reads "Fonts + Code." The white text is on a dark red background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.
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About the Project

Coding Project

I wanted to use Open Frameworks to see if I could make a font that relies on motion. Inspired by a line made by waving a flashlight back and forth, this Light Array motion font uses traveling circles to create letterforms. To facilitate the “drawing” process, I developed a 5x7 grid system and used a two-digit coordinate-mapping system for each circle’s movement. So “12”, referred to row 1, column 2 and “17” refers to row 1, column 7. This allowed me to have the relatively simple notation for each line of “colMovement(12, 17).”

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