Specimen Times New Ramon12, 2008, laser printing, 24 x 35 cm, 36 pages
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Specimen Times New Ramon112, 2008, laser printing, 24 x 35 cm, 36 pages
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Polices de caractères Times New Ramon12 & 112, en quatre styles (Left, Right, Up et Down), créées à partir d’un processus de transformation de la surface occupée par le noir d’une lettre en corps 12 pt et 112 pt de la police
de caractères Times New Roman.
Le protocole mis en place consiste dans un premier temps à pousser tous les pixels d’une même ligne horizontale vers la gauche, en les agglutinant les uns aux autres. Les pixels sont ensuite plaqués contre un axe vertical marquant l’extrémité gauche de la lettre, tout en respectant le squelette du caractère de base choisi.
La forme obtenue occupe une surface semblable – mais aux contours différents – que son dessin original.
En réitérant ce processus vers la droite, le haut et le bas, on obtient quatre variantes d’une police (Left,
Right, Up et Down).
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Times New Ramon 12 & 112 typeface in four styles (Left, Right, Up and Down) made according to the transformation process of the area occupied by each letter in 12pt and 112pt size Times New Roman typeface.
The protocol I have set up first consists in pushing all the pixels of a same horizontal line to the left,
sticking them to each other. The pixels are then flattened against a vertical axis that marks the left edge
of the letter, while respecting the skeleton of the chosen basic character. The shape obtained covers a similar surface as the original drawing – but with a different outline. By repeating this process towards the right,
then upwards, and finally downwards, we get four variants of a typeface (Left, Right, Up, and Down).
