#universal typeface

Do you seek a bland font, a middling font, a dutifully average font? Try the Universal Typeface, “a constantly evolving, algorithmically produced font created by averaging hundreds of thousands of handwriting samples submitted to BIC’s website. Anyone with a touchscreen can help shape the Universal Typeface by linking their phone or tablet to the website and writing directly on the touchscreen—the lettering is quickly transferred to the Universal Typeface algorithm. As of this writing, more than 400,000 samples have been collected from around the world, and the resulting alphabet is … well, sort of boring.”

Good idea....BIC has launch a campaign called the "Universal Typeface Experiment". They are collecting thousands of handwritten letters of the Latin alphabet from anyone who submits.

The campaign aims to find out what a "universal typeface" might look like, combining everyone's handwriting style to result to find the "average" for each letter.