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A website/type specimen for an unconventional typeface.
Photocopier distortion is a very popular effect that has been around since the Xerox was invented. The unexpected results and artifacts that result from the shift while the scanner is still in motion are extremely fascinating. Inspired by this, the typeface scanlate was created through repeated “scanning” and printing.
The modern equivalent of manually moving paper on a scanning bed would most likely be using apps to the same effect. Scanner Pro, an iOS app has automatic bound detection for rectangular shapes for scanning purposes. Using this function, printed copies of individual glyphs from Arial were “scanned.” The results were then printed, and “scanned.” again and again in repeat. Like how scanner distortion came about from using technology in unintentional methods, this process does the same, and the produced typeface is very unusual.
The website was created in a manner that reflects the stretching and skewing that the app would have produced on each glyph through each process.
