Archeology of Consequent Forms Orlando Brunner Published by Maxitype and VC-Edition, 2024 Designed by Orlando Brunner Sewn Bound Softcover, 328 pages 21 × 29.7 cm B/W offset print Edition of 800 copies ISBN 978-2-9701730-5-2
Includes a Font License for MX Archeology.
Archeology of Consequent Forms explores the use of neural-network-based artificial intelligence in the creative process of a typeface. The project starts with the exploration of these models’ understanding of typeface design and the language used to describe it.
The result is a vast gallery of typefaces and single glyphs representative of the patterns and tendencies recognised by these models in the vast amount of examples in their datasets. These, while sometimes very similar to our understanding of typefaces, often present strange features and shapes which result from ‘noise’ in the data, such as inconsistencies in our classification methods or poor image context/quality.
In a second step, the generated shapes are extracted and elaborated in what could be described as a pseudo- archeological process. The basic forms resulting from this process are then collected and curated into a single typeface.
