About Infest
Infest is a type made of dynamic particles. It uses the glyph outlines of standard font formats, like TrueType and OpenType, to control the motion of particles attracted and trapped by letterforms.

The typeface is fairly simple when used statically, like a noise filter applied to the typeface it is based on. Infest becomes more interesting when used dynamically and interactively, where its properties can be harnessed to produce interesting transitions.
> type specimen video
> applet (requires java 1.5+, and oomph)

It is possible to control the rendering of each glyph to produce interesting swashes that become alternative glyphs in the font.
Infest was built with Processing and NextText. It allows to easily adjust parameters to create different styles (e.g. light, medium, bold) by adjusting the particle density and their shape. Infest Mix (left) is an example created by maintaining the same particle count (2000) for each glyph. To produce a style with a constant density, the particle count needs to be adjusted for each glyph based on the area they cover.

The typeface was inspired by Jason Lewis' experiments with SoftTypes, which use glyph representations that are malleable, organic and parameterizable. Infest expands on Lewis' Particle Font (see bottom).