Averia: the most average font

Did you think that new authentic fonts were created by designers? It may be so, but the programmer is also capable of it - especially if he has an artistic taste. Developer Dan Sayers made a very beautiful Avería font by simply averaging all the fonts installed on his computer.

Dan started by generating bitmap images of characters in each set, centering them and running a PHP script that mixed the corresponding characters from different sets. At this stage, a blurry picture appears, such as this.



Dan then found out that there is a coordinate origin in every glyph(origin), and then he repeated the same procedure, aligning the characters on this grid. The result is similar to the previous one, but here it is noticeable that the blur of the glyphs increases to the upper right corner.



Dan liked the result, moreover, he found out that there was more than one such eccentric — some had already done a similar job .

Next, the experimenter began to change the methods of merging images to get the most beautiful result. During the experiments, he even made a simple web applicationto view the curves. It became clear that the task was becoming too complicated, and Dan decided to simplify it. He decided not to average each glyph as a whole, but to first divide it into fragments along the perimeter (for example, 500 fragments), and average the corresponding sections of the glyphs. After a month of work in my free time, I got Averia - the most average font. Its name is as beautiful as the symbols themselves.







Averia (ZIP, 369 KB)
Averia in the Open Font Library

Averia Serif (ZIP, 323 KB), OFLB
Averia Sans (ZIP, 320 KB), OFLB

New Averia fonts based on OFL fonts from the Google Web Fonts catalog are already available in this directory as averia libre:

Averia GWF (ZIP, 488 KB)
Averia Serif GWF (ZIP, 432 KB)
Averia Sans GWF (ZIP, 426 KB)

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All fonts can be used in commercial and non-commercial projects without permission.