Este experimento de Moritz Resl muestra cómo sería un carácter tipográfico resultado de la superposición del mismo carácter de todos las fuentes instaladas en su sistema operativo. Mediante una aplicación informática que él mismo desarrolló generó un efecto de superposición, utilizando un grado alto de transparencia, los caracteres de la A a la Z de más de 900 tipos de letra. Sin descartar ninguno.

«Quería tratar de entender de algún modo la esencia de los tipos de letra instalados en mi ordenador y buscar cuáles eran los rasgos comunes que tenían. Sin excluir aquellos que apenas uso o me pareces más feos»

«The visual result is a kind of sum of all overlapping parts,» he continued. «I’m quite happy with the results from a visual point of view. The characters’ shapes have once been described as ‘ghostly’ and the project as typographic poetry – I think that’s quite accurate. To me, it’s a piece of art hanging on walls rather than an actual font.»

Because typography is a daily consideration for Resl, his idea for The Average Font surfaced organically. «In my work as an artist and designer, I have to deal with typography almost on a daily basis,» he explained. «The urge to explore this matter in one way or the other came quite naturally.»

Although Resl concedes this particular typeface will probably be too blurry for general use outside of the project, the designer is working on another font based on a similar process – but admits «some compromises» will need to be made in order for it to work.

There could be other potential uses for blending font families together with this merging technique, and the designer intends to experiment further.

«There are a lot of possibilities,» Resl said. «It would be interesting to try a version with only serif fonts and only non serifs. In addition, [typographer and designer] Erik Spiekermann suggested to me on Twitter to exclusively try regular cuts. The good thing is I can create a new version at any point in time, my collection of fonts is constantly growing with no end in sight.»

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