Can we envision
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a font that asks more questions than it answers
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a font that has projective memory that reminds you to remember
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a font with a limited life span
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a font with an expiry date
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a font thats gone bad
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a font without temporal inflection, without the imprint of its time
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an apolitical font, a font that doesnt care
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a font unaffected by the force of gravity and the weight of human history
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a font without family, without ancestry
10. a Marshall McLuhan font that stubbornly persists in bidding farewell to itself
11. a font that takes advantage of all that promised processing power
12. a font that does something other than sit on its ass in a digital museum
13. a font with the capacity to breed with other fonts
14. a recombinant fontevery letterform the unruly child of a predictable but random process
15. a font that sounds as good as it looks
16. a font that writes its own script
17. a font that thickens the plot
18. a font that responds and reacts to the meaning it carries and conveys
19. a font that assumes the intelligence of its reader
20. a font that might sense your level of agitation, fear, or aggression
21. a font prone to sudden outbursts and tantrums
22. a font that exceeds the typographic genome
23. a font whose parents are Father Time and the Mother Invention
24. an ambient font, a font without qualities
25. an everyday font, a font of common sense
26. a font that slows the pace of reading for the difficult passages(and skips along through easy bits)
27. a font that writes between the lines
28. a font that refuses to utter imperatives or commands
29. a karaoke font, a lip-synching font, a font without a voice of its own
30. a font that listens while it speaks
31. a font that toggles effortlessly between languages
32. a font for speaking in tongues
33. a font that speaks in dialects
34. a metropolitan font for uptown, the ghetto, and suburbia alike
35. a font that simultaneously translates
36. a font that sings the plaintive songs of lonely whales
37. a font that grows
38. a font that learns
39. an evolutionary font
40. an entropic font
41. a live font
42. a promiscuous font, a font that fucks fonts, a font-fucking font
43. a font that emerges, unfolds, performs, evolves, and passes away
44. a font of youth
45. twin fonts, identical but distinct
46. a generative font that renders itself according to behavioral tendencies
47. a font that is something other than a recording
48. a font that is different every time you play it
49. a font with the metabolism of a fly
50. a font with a demographic algorithm that projects itself onto you, the average reader
- Bruce Mau, Post Industrial Typeface Manifesto that imagines a typeface that comes alive with simulated intelligence
