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FatFonts: A Font To Present Numerical Data in Typographical Scale
The characters we use for numbers are pretty arbitrary when you think about it. If 1 is so much smaller than 7, then why do they take up almost the same area?
FatFonts (download here) is a concept to remedy that. Each number has been drawn to occupy an area proportional to its value. In other words, the area of 4 is half the area of 8, and so on.
More complex numbers are nested within each other at the same ratios. It should be a pretty cool tool for data visualizations, like this converted topographical map of Sicily (zoom in here):
Date posted: 2012/05/14 20:05:05
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Date liked: 2013/06/04 04:06:57
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Liked from: Be Smart
Originally posted from: calculatedimages.blogspot.ca
Original link: http://calculatedimages.blogspot.ca/2012/05/fatfonts.html
Tagged:
typography 424
illustration 245
science 93
data 29
visualization 15
font 15
math 8
numbers 5
fatfonts 1
