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Blorp is a
I developed Blorp as a passion project amidst the buzz of new generative AI tools being released in 2022/23. I was most interested in AI’s relationship with letterforms at this point in time, and captured a set of these unique letterforms in the Blorp typeface.
To craft the letterforms, I handpicked the most interesting forms from thousands of generated type specimens. I then used Caslon's Egyptian (the ‘first’ sans serif, developed during the industrial revolution) as a reference to re-draw the selected letterforms.
The result is a set of 36 unique letterforms that have been described by friends as an amalgamation of many language’s letterforms. It raises questions for me like - what would a universal alphabet of the future look like? How long before AI can craft typefaces? Does AI have it’s own alphabet that we don’t know about?
2023