The Webby Awards celebrates the best of the Internet. The People’s Voice Awards were created to open voting to the public. In 2016 the Webby Awards turned 20 years old and partnered with leading digital, design and creative agencies to celebrate innovation across the Internet.
 
We celebrated the Webby People's Voice awards by literally celebrating the uniqueness of people’s voices. By combining creative technology, design and typography, we created ‘Typevoice’; the first online font shop that allows users to generate their own customized typeface by using their voice. People could then share personalized GIFs or even download the typeface.
 
Typevoice is essentially a web application that leverages the best that Chrome and Firefox has to offer. It analyzes the live inputs of audio data from your devices microphone to manipulate custom made typefaces in real time. Using volume, pitch, and other audio parameters we created algorithms that animated each letter/character. Because Typevoice uses different parameters, it generated thousands of unique typefaces.
 
Yell, laugh, and whistle into Typevoice and you’ll find yourself surprised. Under the hood of this application we have Greensock animation library, javascript, and lots of math with SVG data.
 
Typevoice helped drive more people than ever before to vote in the Webbys Peoples Voice Awards. Typevoice saw 17k visits in the week leading up to the People's Voice Nominations. Fast Company, Digiday, FWA, Type Directors Club and Creativity were amongst some of the press and publications championing Typevoice. GIF creation platform Giphy even promoted Typevoice. 10,960 unique GIFs and typefaces were created and shared.