TY - JOUR AU - Pennino Graciano, Andréa AU - Paraguai, Luisa PY - 2016/11/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Algorithm and typography: The code as part of the creation process of a digital font JF - DAT Journal JA - DATJournal VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.29147/2526-1789.DAT.2016v1i1p116-128 UR - https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/16 SP - 116-128 AB - <p>The purpose of this article is to describe the creative process of the digital&nbsp;font TEP (translation from Portuguese’s Parameterized Experimental Typography),&nbsp;whose drawings were produced with the aid of algorithms, ie, programming codes. Once written - obeying some parameters and allowing the random selection&nbsp;of others by the computer – the algorithms, at every mouse click, presented a new&nbsp;solution for the characters’ shapes. This is not a typography intended to be used in&nbsp;texts, since the project does not focus on readability, although the identification of&nbsp;letters and numbers is possible. The TEP was designed so that its characters work&nbsp;as visual modules which, when repeated and manipulated by other algorithms, generate patterns. As methodology, added to theoretical research, the experimentation&nbsp;experienced in the computer lab was critical to this work.</p> ER -