Teaching-Type is the teaching portal of Kelsey Elder; an Assistant Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Scanned Times
by Benjamin Denzer
For the final project (Grand Prix), Ben created a facsimile tool to re-create the effect of poorly scanned text. He began by studying the formal effects and translated these studies into a multiple master format that could interpolate between these formal characteristics. By using an open-source cut of Times as the ‘standard’ master Ben was able to complete this complex project in a very restricted timeframe; only four weeks.
Ben’s variable font file was then used on a responsive website. By assigning a string of text index positions, Ben could assign interpolation values relative to the position of a letter in a body of text. With this, Ben created a responsive website that could digitally mimic this physical phenomenon. For content, the site uses randomized keywords (related to the circulation of language) to pull from Wikipedia pages.
Some of his process is shown below.