ForeverGeek » driving http://www.forevergeek.com Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:42:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Grab yourself a car-created font: IQ Font http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/07/grab_yourself_a_car-created_font_iq_font/ http://www.forevergeek.com/2009/07/grab_yourself_a_car-created_font_iq_font/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:18:09 +0000 andy http://www.forevergeek.com/?p=13512 I sometimes wonder what processes font designers go through to develop a new font. I bet not many do it this way:

Teaming up with Toyota Belgium, two typographers used the Toyota iQ car to drive out each letter, digit and piece of punctuation.

iq font Grab yourself a car created font: IQ Font

Attaching four colored dots to the roof of the car, these were tracked by a computer and created in Open Frameworks.

Watch the video of the font’s creation here, and go grab the font from iqfont.com.

iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

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