Font proofs & type specimens
High quality typographic composition software such as DrawBot, allows to automatically create type specimens pages with specific algorithmic design compositions, showcase OpenType features and get words from external databases. In addition, it is possible to display info stored in font binaries due to the deep access to font data tables.
Set of Drawbot scripts for building digitalFoundry type specimens. The scripts searches for words in a database and calculate its size to fit the column layout. It features full OpenType features, multilayered fonts and interpolated colors.
Inner cover decoration for PampaType’s specimen series: “Type Divertimentos”. Given a group of fonts the script builds an image based on the glyphs in the font. It supports different modes that combined can create up to 20 different combinations
Type specimens for text typefaces, displaying paragraphs a text in different sizes, full character set, and stacked words. The visual appearance can be adjusted via parameters like size of margins, glyphs per page, font size, etc. Typeface: Amster by Francisco Gálvez.
Documents automatically generated during font development to review interpolations, spacing, consistency between fonts, or even PDFs that tracks the progress of a font.
Matter Of Sorts tool for proofing drawings and spacing in many contexts. All content of these proofs is dynamically created based on font glyphset, rules and random content, no fixed strings are used. Text layout is automatically done based on fonts and text. It supports settings to be customized and stored along font project files.
Instance checkings directly from Glyphs App source files on a two axis interpolation font. Typeface: Lira Sans by Quintana Font
Automatic typeface proofs generated during font development. Typeface: Reforma by PampaType.
Graphic resources and illustrations
The introduction of concepts such as parameter setting, iteration and randomness, allows an exploration of the image and its variations in a fast and playful way, obtaining "unexpected" results that are extended beyond the original idea. These resources can be used in complementary illustrations, project design, dynamic identities and logos, information display, small animations, and so on.
Various vector representations made directly from font source files.
Animation of interpolated Wei Huang’s Work Sans “a” made on Drawbot.
Step-by-step visualization of the construction of a cubic Bézier curve. The graphics were made for the 7º Diplomado en Tipografía de la Universidad Católica de Chile promotional poster. Typeset by Javier Quintana.
Iterations on the redrawing of a bitmap image using vector shapes. Made for graphic resources of a visual identity.
Heavy data document setting
Document setting based on databases or spreadsheets. Traditional design apps do not offer the best solutions when it comes to constantly changing information and dynamic layouts. By using code it is possible to connect directly to information sources and avoid the typical time-consuming and error-leading copy/paste process. Different code libraries can work together to obtain documents and images in multiple formats in minutes no matter how many.
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba voting ballots. The automatic build of 130 different designs was made by definition of an specific workflow chaining the data input trough Google Docs.
Information is processed by a Drawbot script that combines it with bitmaps and vector images like logos and backgrounds.
The result are a high quaility CMYK print-ready PDF documents. Static design provided by the university design department.