GPY&R Melbourne senior designer and retoucher Marcus Byrne creates world’s first iPhone font
Marcus Byrne, senior designer & retoucher at GPY&R Melbourne has designed ‘Phone Streak’, a working font to give away for free by using light from an iPhone. It’s a world’s first.
Featured on Wired, Mashable, PSFK and Designboom, the font is generated by painting with the icons on an iPhone, capturing the moving light trails in the air to form letters.
Byrne created the font using a tripod mounted Canon 5D DSLR, and shot in the dark with a remote between 3.2 and 4 second exposures.
Says Byrne: “I wanted the characters to flow organically and retain the imperfections of the various shapes but still retain the very obvious letter structures. I also wanted the iPhone icons to be visible in the full colour images. This project started as a simple idea tomake one character into a 3-D object by using gestures. I then decided to also make a full working font set to give away free”
The full set of characters are available in true type and open type format and can be downloaded for free here.
The full project from light to font and 3D object can be viewed here.
9 Comments
But can everyone please stop saying ‘world first’…
Top work, McTavish.
This is cool. Inventive!
Tiddely tee!
Awesome work Marcus, well deserved mate.
Legend! You’re a gun!
It”s brilliant work, but Phone Streak is mot a “font” it’s a typeface.
(A font is one specific size and weight of a particular typeface. Eg Times is a typeface but 10pt Times Bold is a font. )
Love this
“Typeface” should be used when referring to the design, while “font” should be used when referring to the file, copy or file-type. For example, there is only one Times New Roman typeface designed by Victor Lardent, but nearly everyone with a computer has a copy of that font. A font is what you actually use.
So Marcus has designed a Typeface and a Font which can be downloaded and used.