Gallery: A Glowing Font Created by Waving an iPhone in the Dark
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*Phone Streak*, a font made with long-exposure photography and a hyperactive iPhone owner proves that smartphones are content-creation devices after all. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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Each character in the *Phone Streak* font is the result of a four-second exposure of a deftly handled gadget. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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Byrne created over 80 glyphs to produce a fully functional font. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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Each character evolved through a process of trial, error, and swinging an iPhone around a dark room like a maniac. The telltale traces of color in the streaks of light are determined by the icons on the home screen. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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The two most difficult characters to create were the # and %, both of which required some clever handwork when the strokes crossed. "After some playing around, I found a technique that worked a treat!" says Byrne. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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Not content to focus on the core letters, Byrne created all the glyphs required to make the typeface usable. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
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Phone Streak is available for free on font repository Dafont.com. *Photo: Marcus Byrne*
