{"id":1165,"date":"2016-07-15T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:23:16","slug":"art-student-creates-spector-captures-font-colors-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/art-student-creates-spector-captures-font-colors-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Student Creates The Spector Which Captures the Font and Colors of Everyday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal College of Art student, Fiona O&#8217;Leary, has developed a device capable of capturing any color or font you may run into while you&#8217;re out and about in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype, called the Spector, can literally be put up to a sign outside of a restaurant with a neat font and immediately load it into Adobe InDesign.<\/p>\n<p>The Spector works thanks to an algorithm which takes the image or font snapped in the photo, then cross-referencing the collection of shapes, letters, symbols, and hues with a database in order to ultimately identify what it is looking at.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the Spector can easily identify the CMYK\/RGB values of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Capable of recognizing seven different font families, in addition to a myriad of other characteristics, the device is certainly a practical prototype, but it&#8217;s not yet available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who works in marketing, I would love to own the Spector to capture bits and pieces of art or eye-popping fonts as I go through a normal day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X7Izt-eEM_k\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal College of Art student, Fiona O&#8217;Leary, has developed a device capable of capturing any color or font you may run into while you&#8217;re out and about in the world. The prototype, called the Spector, can literally be put up to a sign outside of a restaurant with a neat font and immediately load it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[590,592,591,593],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}