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My project explores the role of design tools to creative outcomes through applications of data science in font design, and challenges the way we communicate through digital typefaces. It begins with an organic phenomenon and develops through a series of experimentations with man-made tools. I was inspired by the formation of salt crystals to grow my own using physical letters. These letters were then brought into the digital realm, where I played with creating my own font, using a machine learning model to produce characters given reference input glyphs, and displaying the font on a website using OpenAI’s speech to text Whisper API. Natural and artificial crystal type Physiomorphism I describe the concept of my font as “physiomorphic”, a term discussed by Graham Richards in his 1989 book On psychological language and the physiomorphic basis of human nature, where he proposes the theory that the terms of psychological language, that is, words for internal states, are derived from physic

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