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Font Distortion


I had previously blogged about text effects, and how I accidentally discovered that I could alter the personality of the font by rendering a distorted shape. At the time, I was focused on text effects and didn’t want to get distracted by this discovery.

I had previously blogged about text effects, and how I accidentally discovered that I could alter the personality of the font by rendering a distorted shape. View the video (mp4) Here’s the regular text rendering (with some spacing issues unrelated to this exploration): Bottom-heavy variantI had suspected that the problem was the way I turned a rectangle into two triangles, and some comments I got confirmed that.

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Font Distortion