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Weird Type Screenshots

iPhone

About Weird Type

Have you ever wanted to draw with words? Weird Type is an AR app that lets you paint with text in space!

You can type your own phrases and pick from multiple modes and see your text in completely new ways. You can record videos of your messages and share them or save them to you camera roll.

It's based on a series of AR experiments that the authors Zach Lieberman and Molmol Kuo have been posting to Instagram over the last few months. People kept asking, "is that an app?" Now, together with our collaborator Design Indaba, which helped produce this, we're packaging some of these experiments into app and we hope you enjoy them!

The app is designed by Richard The, with iOS help from Ying Quan Tan, Robby Kraft, and Peter Sibley

Note the app now supports multi-lingual input.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.7

Last updated on May 10, 2020

Old Versions

- Fixed issues with video being vertically flipped while exporting to some services

Version History

1.7

May 10, 2020

- Fixed issues with video being vertically flipped while exporting to some services

1.6

Nov 16, 2019

- fixed minor UI issues
- fixed bug with video where it was vertically flipped in some instances when shared

1.5

Aug 10, 2019

- Weird type now supports multi-lingual text input! you can type messages in Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, or any language you can input on iOS (note, we don't support emoji)
- Added a new video recorder which is much higher resolution, faster and records anti-aliased

1.4

Oct 2, 2018

- Fixed iOS 12 bug which warped the video

1.3

May 1, 2018

- revised launch screen
- fixed bug where the app would launch w/ last saved video
- added horizontal mode for text entry (note: video still saves vertical but you can enter content horizontally and rotate video in post)
- added movement to transparent ribbon mode

1.2

Mar 19, 2018

- fixed bug with ribbon mode and longer text
- ui adjustments, including more clarity on how to get type on screen
- launch screen adjusted
- small bug fixes

1.1

Mar 12, 2018

- updated UI design
- graphics are retina / higher resolution
- improved tracking
- better error messages
- new typefaces added per scene
- new icon and launch screen

1.0

Feb 28, 2018

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