I got as far as layering the glyphs on top of each other and playing with randomly removing segments from the glyph paths, using Rune.js and a approach adapted from a gist on splitting SVG paths into pieces. To be honest, I didn’t have enough time to figure out a good algorithm for this. So, I wanted to try generating sigils by layering letter glyphs from opentype.js and then removing or combining segments of each glyph’s path until I got something that looked sigil-esque.
SIGIL GENERATOR VECTOR GENERATOR
But, as far as I can tell, that generator doesn’t actually use letter glyphs from a font in its sigils. In fact, someone else already had this exact idea and made. Once a sigil is made, the magician needs to forget its associated intent before it can be properly charged with power, which might actually be a little easier if the sigil wasn’t made by hand. When I first read this, it struck me that this process could be done algorithmically without necessarily invalidating its magical purpose. Now start squashing the string down, throwing out or combining lines and playing with the letters until only an appropriately witchy-looking glyph is left.” Only the symbol remains and can then be charged to full potency when the magician chooses.įirst, remove the vowels and the repeating letters to leave a string of consonants - TSMYDRBGC. “The sigil takes a desire or intent - let’s say ‘IT IS MY DESIRE TO BE A GREAT ACTOR’ (you can, of course, put any desire you want in there) and folds it down, creating a highly charged symbol. Here’s a short passage from Grant Morrison’s Pop Magic that explains the technique:
Why am I talking about chaos magic in a class on typography? Well, it turns out that the most common process for creating sigils involves layering and deconstructing letters. system of occult practices dating back to the 1970s, a sigil is a magically charged symbol that helps the magician realize a desire or intent. For my final project for Computational Approaches to Typography, I wanted to make a sigil#Chaos_magic) generator.
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