Posted on Friday 23 September 2005 - Popularity: 4%
Did you ever search the perfect font for a logo or design and just couldn’t decide between two similar fonts because the perfect font would have been something somewhere between the two? Font morphing allows TrueType fonts to be smoothly adjusted from light to bold, but why not take the next logical step and allow smooth transitions between two different fonts? I’m sure computers these days are fast enough to easily handle this task; it’s a pure software problem.
Many designers have so many fonts installed that finding the right one becomes hard work. With real font morphing, a lot of those fonts, those that look almost the same, could be eliminated. You would work with a few key fonts and the rest could be morphed on the fly. Of course the morphing engine would have to be optimized for fonts to get the best results, just look at the picture above I made with Flash MX, a general vector shape morph just isn’t perfect enough. However, I’m sure it could be done, it just needs a smart developer read my blog and be bored enough to get interested and that’s exactly why I’m writing this post, to get someone out there motivated enough to do it, for me and all the other designers out there.
Fredi
February 23rd, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Nice idea, hard to impliment though unless the user can tweak the results a little more than a straight morph.
Here’s another idea:
How about being able to input a picture of some text and have a program tell you the name of the font. THat would be handy.
JAB
February 23rd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Already done, have a look: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Fredi