Anitype!

[Dave Crossland]

http://www.anitype.com/

"Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move?

For thousands of years, letters have sat static on the page, but
thanks to today's modern devices, they could do a lot more — they
could dance and jump and wriggle their way across the screen. And you
could help decide how they move.

Anitype invites you to animate letters with JavaScript, so we can
begin to see what an animated typeface might look like on the web."

[Liam R E Quin]

Post by Dave Crossland
http://www.anitype.com/
"Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move?

Caution, do not visit this page if you are epileptic or prone to
seizures... or even headaches.

It'd probably help if the page had a list of different easing types.

The first page convinces me I don't want this in anything I have to
read :-) but it's also fun.

[Nathan Willis]

Post by Dave Crossland
Anitype invites you to animate letters with JavaScript, so we can
begin to see what an animated typeface might look like on the web."

They'd look like this?

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The link went to a Youtube video. I saw part uv a simple style animated version uv an Everybody Luvz Ramon episode. Mildly amuzing. There wuz a little bit uv riting, but it appeared to be just parrt uv the animation.



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http://www.anitype.com/

"Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move?

For thousands of years, letters have sat static on the page, but
thanks to today's modern devices, they could do a lot more — they
could dance and jump and wriggle their way across the screen. And you
could help decide how they move.

Anitype invites you to animate letters with JavaScript, so we can
begin to see what an animated typeface might look like on the web."

[vernon adams]

I’ve been wondering if the technology can be applied to other more interesting uses.

I had checked this out when Dave first posted it and I think it's dynamite. I can't wait to see this done with other letterforms.
There are sections in the work of Professor Richard Lanham (an expert in Rhetoric and the use of words who's written some McLuhanesque stuff describing letterforms snaking and jumping around just like this) Anyway, it reminded me of Lanham's writings.
Prescience.
yes, I know that many designers and certainly most print font creators are going to look upon this as the second coming of the BLINK tag but I think it will find it's place.
Very cool.
http://www.anitype.com/ the
"Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move?
For thousands of years, letters have sat static on the page, but
thanks to today's modern devices, they could do a lot more — they
could dance and jump and wriggle their way across the screen. And you
could help decide how they move.
Anitype invites you to animate letters with JavaScript, so we can
begin to see what an animated typeface might look like on the web."
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