Gallery: A Glowing Font Created by Waving an iPhone in the Dark

  • Phone Streak a font made with longexposure photography and a hyperactive iPhone owner proves that smartphones are...
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    *Phone Streak*, a font made with long-exposure photography and a hyperactive iPhone owner proves that smartphones are content-creation devices after all. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
  • Each character in the Phone Streak font is the result of a foursecond exposure of a deftly handled gadget. Photo Marcus...
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    Each character in the *Phone Streak* font is the result of a four-second exposure of a deftly handled gadget. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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    Byrne created over 80 glyphs to produce a fully functional font. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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    Each character evolved through a process of trial, error, and swinging an iPhone around a dark room like a maniac. The telltale traces of color in the streaks of light are determined by the icons on the home screen. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
  • The two most difficult characters to create were the and both of which required some clever handwork when the strokes...
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    The two most difficult characters to create were the # and %, both of which required some clever handwork when the strokes crossed. "After some playing around, I found a technique that worked a treat!" says Byrne. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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    Not content to focus on the core letters, Byrne created all the glyphs required to make the typeface usable. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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    Phone Streak is available for free on font repository Dafont.com. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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