Remote

Typearture

@typearture@typo.social

mastodon 4.6.9

Typefaces by Arthur Reinders Folmer

569 Followers

182 Following

18 Posts

Joined November 08, 2022

website:

https://www.typearture.com

contact:

mail@typearture.com

more goodies:

http://linktr.ee/typearture

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 3mo ago

Sit tight! I've still been working on the next version of Gimme. Last version included a pixel variants of my "Battleship" game letters, but I felt they could use some polish. As below: VGA, EGA and CGA. SVGA will be something... Different if I get around to it.

11

1

1

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 2mo ago

The EU will get some new banknotes! Interesting to see what alle the designers have come up with. Some of them feel a bit too simple for me, or way too busy to be useful as a banknote. But it's nice to see such a wide array of approaches.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

Future banknotes

European Central Bank

Future banknotes

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.

3

1

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTXadJQdFUo

Some really cool news from Affinity, as shown here in this in-depth explanation by @jectives@typo.social : It now supports adjustments and selection of color palettes!

No more need for endless different font styles (Guess why my latest version of Gimme is over a gigabyte unzipped) and all the possibilities a user wants to make the color scheme fit the design without creating outlines.

@pixelambacht@typo.social You seem to be ahead of the curve as one of @jectives@typo.social comments is about color and palette names!

6

1

2

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 4mo ago

Een andere serie die ik natuurlijk opzocht was "strip en cartoontekenen" door Hanco Kolk en Peter de Wit. (Met alweer zo'n lekkere jaren 90 aankleding)

Niet dat ik het kon, maar strips maakte ik (en mijn broer!) maar al te graag. Vaak bleef het maar bij één pagina. Of zelfs het openingskader. Maar deze serie is een échte core memory.

https://schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl/serie/2101608030022428031/strip-en-cartoontekenen/aflevering/2101608050040896831

schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl

3

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cjtype @djrrb @behdad @pixelambacht Thank you! Will have a look when I can focus on fonts again. It will probably become my favourite pastime to describe over 50 colours in a single palette!

3

1

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@daytonamess Congratulations! Such a pleasure to see and to follow the progress to the finish line. Let's hope for a lot of "here be Dargon"!

2

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@eWalthert @kasperQ How cool, looking really good. Sadly won't be able to make it, but good luck with the launch!

2

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jectives@typo.social I think outside the tutorials for making them in @glyphs@typo.social (https://glyphsapp.com/learn/creating-a-microsoft-color-font) writeups by @googlefonts@typo.social (https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/introducing_color_fonts) an extensive post by @typetodaynews@bird.makeup (https://type.today/en/journal/colorfonts) or my little writeup about how variable color fonts work https://www.typearture.com/howdotheywork there isn't *that* much. For Variable font's it's much better of course, but I don't immediately have the best sources. For COLRv1 I think it's even more rare, and how to create them is totally non-existent.

1

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jectives@typo.social Now this is something I've missed, and a big plus for color fonts! Great to see palette support and COLRv1 support in Affinity. I know Adobe has been working on adjustable colours somewhere in '20-'21, but once again, Affinity takes the crown. Thanks for being an Color Fonts ambassador, and your descriptions were on-point! And seems I have to update my tiny explainer page ;). About the shadow: It's not in the font, but more as an explainer on what's possible with alpha/transparency layers. And about giving colours specific names: This is possible, but currently missing in Nabla, would be a good test to see if Affinity can pick them up.

1

1

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@justvanrossum @typotheque You didn't lie when you said you did something cool! Great visualisation and playground and equally great subject in Zed. I do miss the icons though :D.

2

1

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mwichary Thank you! Some beautiful examples. Always love the vibrancy of some of those old machines. And of course some good clunky switches!

1

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 7mo ago

@eWalthert@typo.social I'll drop by at Letterspace when the deadline fest is over!

1

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@HEX @futurefonts Really cool! Nice surprise this morning, and with an upcoming project an insta-buy.

2

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@cakelab Somehow, Pootjesglas has returned: And how! Very nice work, looks amazing!

1

1

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@alicesavoie@typo.social @ANRT@typo.social @ecal_ch@bird.makeup Amazing! I wasn't able to catch the stream, so very glad I can catch up this way. Many thanks for making these available!

1

0

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 31mo ago

Replying to

@DanMorgan@vmst.io @glennf@twit.social Mostly though other books or posters, after which I delved further and took notes: Whenever I found a book with a special feel or right texture/paper weight, I immediately flipped to the colophon where (quite often, as is the case in designer-books) the paper was listed, which got me a list of preferred types. For the rest it was a lot of finding out and visiting printers when you are producing print work: they always have some great stuff in their showcase libraries.

2

2

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@pixelambacht Gongratulations! Always happy to see more being added to the fondue!

0

4

0

0

Typearture @typearture@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@pixelambacht Certainly! I better get started with fixing all those versions ;).

0

1

0

0