MuirMcNeil

Interact

A geometric
bitmap type system
in four sizes and
twelve weights
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MuirMcNeil Interact is a
geometric bitmap type
system in 23 variants.
Interact was originally
designed by 8vo in 1994 as
part of an invited submission
to the American Center of
Design Journal. It was first
implemented as a system of
grid-based bitmap typefaces,
in lowercase characters only,
for screen use. Taking as a
starting point the optical
characteristics of the stroke
junctions in Wim Crouwels
vormgevers lettering of 1968,
Interact employs horizontal
and vertical lines as well as
45-degree pixel steps to
modulate a set of stroke
junctions which have the
effect of optically rounding the
letterforms.
Interact has been extensively
expanded and revised by
MuirMcNeil as a type system
in four scale-related groups
with a comprehensive range
of 12 calibrated weights. A full
set of capital letters,
punctuation marks and
accented characters for
Western European languages
has also been implemented.
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The MuirMcNeil Interact
typefaces follow a
mathematical progression in
which type size hierarchies are
scaled in exact proportion to a
constant pixel resolution.
There are four resolutions in
the Interact system: 02, 03,
04 and 06. These numbers
refer to the scale ratios of the
bitmap contours. When used
in size relationships which
correspond to these numerical
proportions, the bitmap
contours of the type will
occupy a consistent grid.
Because Interact contours and
spaces can be configured to
map onto each other precisely,
a wide range of visual
possibilities is available to
designers working in both
spatial and time-based design.
Using bitmap, vector or
moving image design
software. users can overlay
selected contours either in
precise registration or in easily
callibrated positional offsets
or transitions.
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Latin 1 standard character set
in Opentype encoding for
Macintosh and Truetype
encoding for Windows.
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