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Beth Fileti (she/her), a multidisciplinary designer exploring art and technology. I specialize in systems thinking, communication strategies, and design solutions.

Bad Type Tool

Interactive Tool, p5js

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2015

A teaching tool designed to help users learn to look at fonts, by messing one up.

Demo the Bad Type Tool here

The Bad Type Tool was conceived as a teaching tool, which encourages students to quickly create a really bad font. I determined the fastest way to make a bad font and learn from it, was to start with a good font and royally mess it up. Students can see how small changes interrupt the color of a paragraph of type, while being playful and experimental with letterforms.

A screenshot of the interface


This project was done as part of a Generative Type workshop, led by the Space Type Continuum.

The Bad Type Tool in action

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