Averia: the most average font

Did you think that new authentic fonts are created by designers? Maybe so, but the programmer is also capable of it - especially if he has an artistic taste. Developer Dan Sayers made a very beautiful Avería font by simply averaging all the fonts installed on his computer.

Dan started by generating bitmaps of characters in each set, centered them and drove a PHP script that mixed the corresponding characters from different sets. At this stage it turns out a blurry picture, like this.


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Then Dan learned that there is a origin in each glyph, and then he repeated the same procedure, aligning the characters on this grid. The result is similar to the previous one, but it is noticeable here that the blurring of the glyphs increases towards the upper right corner.



Dan liked the result, and besides, he found out that not one such eccentric - someone had done similar work before.

Next, the experimenter began to change the way images were merged in order to get the most beautiful result. In the process of experiments, he even made a simple web application for viewing curves. It became clear that the task was becoming too complex, and Dan decided to simplify it. He decided not to average each glyph entirely, but to pre-divide it into fragments along the perimeter (for example, 500 fragments), and to average the corresponding glyph regions. After a month of work in my free time, Averia turned out to be the most average font. Its name is as beautiful as the characters themselves.







Averia (ZIP, 369 KB)
Averia in Open Font Library

Averia Serif (ZIP, 323 KB), OFLB
Averia Sans (ZIP, 320 KB), OFLB

New Averia fonts based on the OFL fonts from the Google Web Fonts catalog are already represented in this directory as Averia Libre :

Averia GWF (ZIP, 488 KB)
Averia Serif GWF (ZIP, 432 KB)
Averia Sans GWF (ZIP, 426 KB)

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All fonts can be used in commercial and non-commercial projects without permission.