Reactive Typography: How AI Is Making Fonts That Respond to You
The New Era of Living Typography The idea that typography has always been more than a container of words, but rather a strong design element that speaks in one or another tone, conveys the identity and evokes emotion. Yet the year 2025 does not see typography being fixed. Thanks to the emergence of artificial intelligence, we are also reaching a reactive typography – where fonts will be able to change on the fly based on their surroundings, how the user interacts, and other factors. Consider a scenario in which you open a web page that changes font weight as you scroll at different rates or where you read an application in which the spacing of the letters adjusts to become easier to read based on the surrounding brightness. This is also no longer a design experiment- it is rapidly morphing into a mainstream design practice. What is known as this new frontier presents challenges and opportunities to the designer and marketer. It brings up the issue of accessibility, creativity, branding...