October 3, 2000
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All you frustrated type designers should jump on the wagon and contribute your own interpretive typographic nuances to Chinese Whispers, a collaborative online font design experiment. Using the concept of the typographic whisper, or a view into a single previous character design, as a template for your own submission, you can respond and contribute to a series of evolving typefaces. This project is similar to the Internet Type Design Project started by Joshua Lurie-Terrell back in 1996, where a series of designers would change a font through interpretive or deconstructive evolution. Chinese Whispers opens up the collaborative design approach to everyone by employing a clever Shockwave-based front end, rather than relying on the participant’s ability to generate valid fonts using Fontographer. I’ve already contributed more than a half dozen characters across the five current works in progress, and I’m finding it only slightly less addictive than reading through the A List Apart archives.
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