HELLO DITHER FONT

A processing tool to develop dithered fonts.

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How it works

The application relies on two classes: GradientLetter and Dither. The GradientLetter class uses geomerative to get all the anchor points of a single character. Those points are translated to a PImage as the location for a radial gradient. At the end of the process this class outputs the following letterform

This image is than loaded in the Dither class that outputs a dithered letterform, like this:

the menu on the left side lets you scramble with the dither.
You can change how the four neighbouring pixels are recalculated, by changing the values in the four boxes. The bar at the bottom calculates by which amount the previous changed values need to be divided by.
Hit the space bar to let the app build the font.
Inside the data folder there is a text file, named unicode.txt, containing the first 224 Unicode characters. It is possible to expand it also to greek cyrillic etc. here you can find a nice unicode table generator.

References

Dither @Wikipedia

DITHER.TXT by Lee Daniel Crooker. An interesting text about dithering and halftoning algorithms

The Void-and-Cluster Method for Dither Array Generation a paper about dither by Robert Ulichney

Dither Studies by Daniel Temkin. And his Dither Web App

Dependencies

Geomerative

Fontastic

Controlp5

The font used is Source Code Pro