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Another small thing I realized is being taken away by AI. Insignificant in the big picture, but still another AI killjoy.
When my kids and I see handwritten text, we try to see if it was a font or true lettering. I'd point out if letters were exactly the same, or if perhaps alternates might be at play. If not, it was probably lettering. A fun little game to play with so many letters around us in the real world.
But AI today seems to make its own "lettering" when generating text in an image. And this adds enough irregularities in the letters to make it seem like handmade lettering. The initial joy of "hey cool, they took the effort to craft something" is now being extended by "...or is this AI generated". I don't like it.
Another clever little novely font: "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font" turns text into a QR code.
I noticed the QR code is broken in Safari when a space is used. This is because Safari treats the space character differently, seemingly ignoring the metrics or advance width, resulting in a shifted QR code (top line).
I quickly hacked the font to use the § character as an alias for space, and then it works (bottom line)
I wonder if this causes more problems in fonts, or if the space character is so simple that a browser messing with its metrics is inconsequential?
Back from an early summer vacation, now back to computerin'. Saw plenty of tofu in Thailand!
🤫 Tiny colorful update to Wakamai Fondue 🤫
You can use a color font's built-in palettes in the main tester!
Very proud that a little quality-of-life improvement in the new Wakamai Fondue caught @mwichary@mastodon.online's eye, and made it to the Unsung blog!
https://unsung.aresluna.org/thoughtful-file-dropping-in-wakamaifondue/
“Designers described spending time in client meetings justifying why a font costs money at all, let alone why using it on a website requires a different license than using it in print. Many said they’ve simply defaulted to Google Fonts in those situations because the explanation is too difficult.”
☝️ This is precisely what I've done, and what I've seen my webdev peers do *so* often!
I'm curious to see how Fontstand will tackle this. Keeping an eye on this.
@typearture Thanks Arthur! And remember, no more excuses for not naming your palettes anymore, because with this release the counter for software supporting paletteLabels is updated to:
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Wakamai Fondue got featured on Jectives Typography News!
@jectives@typo.social basically gives a quick tour through what's new in the fondue, and of course goes through the latest font releases and news. If you're having a 1 hour, 7 minutes and 13 seconds long lunch, this video will fit RIGHT in!
🤫 I just fixed a super embarrassing oversight in how I used name table IDs to show the font's name.
This little bug was there forever and so in-your-face that I became blind to it.
Refresh your fondue and it'll report the PROPER name!
