Thursday, August 20, 2009

[qafzgoag] Letters in the presence of noise

Design a font optimized for maximum human readability in the presence of Gaussian blur.

Or of Gaussian noise.

Or of overexposure, where the "ink" of the letters bleed out.

Or of underexposure, where the exterior bleeds in.

One begins to notice the duality of the inside and outside of a letter form, and how both are important.

Letter spacing is important as well, as too close letters may bleed into each other.

Peephole crop: only a certain section of a letterform is visible. Some parts of a letter are more important than others. Which parts? Maximize entropy over the area over all letters.

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