Meta-the-difference-between-the-2-font-4-d

Meta-the-difference-between-the-two-font-4-d is a Processing sketch for animated typography. It cycles through generated font variants while displaying live typing or playing text from scripts with timing and font-range cues.

Run

Open mtdbt2f4d_v7/mtdbt2f4d_v7.pde in Processing (Java mode) and run the sketch. With processing-java installed and on your PATH, you can also run:

cd mtdbt2f4d_v7
sh mtdbt2f4d.sh

The default configuration uses live typing in a 1920 × 1080 window. Playback and export are disabled. Adjust the modes, options, and settings near the top of the main sketch to select a font sequence, enable scripted playback, or configure output.

Files

• mtdbt2f4d_v7/mtdbt2f4d_v7.pde — main sketch, keyboard controls, playback, and export.
• mtdbt2f4d_v7/videoexport.pde — bundled video exporter; video output requires FFmpeg.
• mtdbt2f4d_v7/data/ — generated TTF sequences and audio.
• mtdbt2f4d_v7/data/resources/ — versioned Script.txt, Cues.txt, and Fonts.txt files for text, timing, and font ranges.
• mtdbt2f4d_v7/out/ — output location for exported frames and video.
• src.zip — archived font assets.

The sketch includes PNG, PDF, and video output modes. PDF export requires enabling the Processing PDF library import in the main sketch. Font-generation tools are maintained separately in the mtdbt2f repository.