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I wanted a better way to read the Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas. So I asked Saint Claude for a holy incantation to convert the original HTML into an ePub.
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不好看
These Chinese characters from a paper on typesetting Chinese (using Metafont) with LaTeX lol
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Love this detail. How do you catalog genius, when what is indispensable they carry with them?
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I'd like to share with you the "State of Text Rendering 2024", a survey of the Free & Open Source fonts & text rendering landscape advancements since 2009.
behdad.org/text2024/
@harfbuzz @FontTools @googlefonts
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More information here: amygoodchild.com/blog/cursiv…
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Bassel's technology is behind @fontlibrary: forward.com/fast-forward/477…
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A Nerdy History of The Ampersand
Note, @fontlibrary getting @twitterapi support has not happened. Any news?
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Google Fonts gets new logo as catalog adds Material icons
@fontlibrary
9to5google.com/2021/03/02/go…
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Twitter Gets a New Look, Creates Its Own Font
Speaking of, we still have no reply from @twitterapi from @fontlibrary request. Is anyone there?
iphoneincanada.ca/news/twitt…
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I want to give a bit more depth to Chirp, our new typeface.
Type, in 280 character doses, is the foundation of Twitter. In the history of the company we’ve either relied on someone else’s typeface, from SF Pro and Roboto, to Helvetica Neue in our brand.
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👻Halloween, the typeface.
An unsung (and uncredited) little gem from Photo-Lettering that had a brief moment of fame in the mid 1960s:
fontsinuse.com/typefaces/124…
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Psychedelitypes (Alphabet Directions No. 8), Photo-Lettering, Inc., New York, 1968. Art by Ed Benguiat (1927–2020). Read more about this catalog on @FontsInUse from our Associate Curator and Editorial Director @stewf: fontsinuse.com/uses/19035/ps…
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Am going to record (live) videos on 1. Introduction to font file formats and 2. Advanced topics in font file format design. With enough intro on 3. Mathematical basis for.
Have material for hours ready. Just waiting for 🎤 to arrive. Comment with what you like covered.
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One day somebody will create a GAN that would design any typeface according to all that has been created so far. This will kill the companies who are thriving on designing custom typefaces who just interpolate already existing designs and opens space for more creatives.
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Already started:
github.com/clovaai/lffont
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Going live NOW.
"Font Wars 2.0: The Untold Story". I'll be broadcasting live tomorrow Wed Sep 23 at 5pm UTC 1pm EST 10am PST. ~120minutes.
I discuss @Microsoft+@Adobe unfair-competition practices in the ISO Open Font Format process.
youtu.be/9vSLkriYBFs
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Quick update on my fight on ISO Open Font Format / Microsoft unfair-competition: Denialism by Vlad, the *chair* of Open Font Format Ad-Hoc Group is ***so*** blatantly continues to happen:
lists.aau.at/pipermail/mpeg-…
No words. Plz retweet if you agree my complaints should be heard.
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I just wrote "An Open Proposal: Fixing the Font Format"
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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I was sitting in my room today thinking about @FontForge, and the previous failed attempts to replace it (TruFont, Runebender, etc.), when I had what I thought to be a good idea:
A modular GUI font editor!
CC @davelab6 @KhaledGhetas @eliheuer @hhpapazian @Skef62506605