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  • Permutation: The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements.

    One font, two different brick combinations.

    Picking any two bricks from the 169 available gives a total possible combinations of 14196 (169C2) different fonts. Counting a certain kinds of bricks as one--all four 45degree, for instance--gives 36 unique bricks, resulting in 630 (36C2) unique combinations or fonts.

    In this font, if the bricks are swapped with each other, the result will be a different font. Hence order of the bricks matter. In which case, nCr (combinations) is not the right choice. What's needed is nPr (permutations). 169P2 gives 28392 permutations and a 36P2 gives 1260 permutations.

    So, at a minimum, 1260 fonts are possible with the current implementation of FontStruct, with just this particular layout of bricks.

    Staggering.
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    Created on 27th March 2009. Last edited on 13th May 2009.
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5 Comments

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Comment by cayo 27th march 2009
This is my favorite permutation.
Comment by aphoria 27th march 2009
In this series thalamic shows us a conceptual mastery of Fontstruct. Stratospheric.
Comment by intaglio 10th august 2009
Ouch! My brain hurts

Next stop the infinite font?
Comment by p2pnut 10th august 2009
wow.
Comment by jinx 10th august 2009

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