A few weeks back, Lee Brimelow, Lead Product Designer at Adobe, has provided a quick preview of one of Adobe's upcoming projects, codenamed "Faces," which in theory, would allow anyone to create and design their own fonts.
For many years, the art of typography was restricted to only a few that were willing to put the time and effort into learning ancient typesetting techniques, obscure programs, and blend all of this with modern computer software like Adobe Illustrator or FontLab Studio.
Adobe's Project Faces aims to bring font designing to the masses, and if you get a chance to watch the video embedded below, it does so by simply letting people adjust a few horizontal sliders.
The technology behind Project Faces has been sitting in Adobe's back pocket since 1998 when it bought a small Windows 98 app called Ares Font Chameleon which, just like Project Faces, allowed users, to some degree, to change font properties by tweaking a few sliders.
For now, Project Faces is only an internal project at Adobe, but from the looks of it, the iOS app seems to be already working as expected.
If this hits Adobe's Creative Cloud, expect it to be one of the service's most used tools, since choosing the right font has always been one of the most difficult tasks in Web or print design, and Project Faces seems to allow artists to just "create" the font they like, instead of wasting countless hours searching for it online.
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