Arial book

more typography nerd-ism. this time I am randomly generating 50 distorted versions of Arial in order to illustrate the vagaries of digital memory.

digital media do not preserve things particularly well. for a trivial example, if my CD scrathes, it stops playing. if my vinyl record scratches, it pops and hisses, but keeps playing. this fact (among others) poses real problems for the Library of Congress

my records don't scratch though, because I'm anal about stuff like that.

so this actually says ”Arial is a digital typeface“. I can see a capital A

Incidentally, in a grand example of irony, the hard drive on which these files were stored has crashed. So, my little ugly project about how digital media are prone to memory loss only exists... in a book.

That's funny.

Progressive Distortion

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gratuitous inclusion of Clash lyrics