Light Array Motion Font
A font, created in openFrameworks, that relies solely on motion.
![The text reads "Black Lives Matter." The white text is on a black background. The text is on a green background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb30da2e13b9a6a4e3a9fba/600ce0f57e43ed18d5d5e4ba_LightArray-1.gif)
![The text reads "100% code" with decorative ornaments around it. The white text is on a red background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb30da2e13b9a6a4e3a9fba/600ce0fd72173e638c8acaaa_LightArray-2.gif)
![The text reads "Fonts + Code." The white text is on a dark red background. The letters are made up of small white dots in motion to imply lines of light.](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb30da2e13b9a6a4e3a9fba/600ce1037dcc5142872e33c7_LightArray-3.gif)
I wanted to use Open Frameworks to see if I could make a font that relies on motion. Inspired by a line made by waving a flashlight back and forth, this Light Array motion font uses traveling circles to create letterforms. To facilitate the “drawing” process, I developed a 5x7 grid system and used a two-digit coordinate-mapping system for each circle’s movement. So “12”, referred to row 1, column 2 and “17” refers to row 1, column 7. This allowed me to have the relatively simple notation for each line of “colMovement(12, 17).”