A nice tool to compare CJK character between regions
https://tofu.tools/
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"swiss-style" / flattersatz ragged text on the web...
pretext makes it easy to explore different tradeoffs / constraints around tracking / word spacing / glyph sizing
https://seththompson.com/labs/flattersatz/
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Pretext is a recently released TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout that bypasses DOM measurements:
https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
ran into someone at a party who was telling me about a font called Atkinson Hyperlegible and that its super legible
Tekagi, a handwriting animation library for the web by Kurt Gokhan.
I know the y2k revival was never serious because no one decided to try make using FF Meta cool
Charcuterie: A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters by similarity. By David Aerne.
I question the decision to host this year's ATypI conference in the US – is ATypI going to give advice on getting into the US safely?
I was gonna say Anthropic Serif looks a bit too close to Tiempos but then I realised the typeface is by Chester Jenkins (under the name BSPK). So it's an edit of Galaxie Copernicus.
Does anyone know what this serif face is used in the credits of season 2 of Beef?
I don’t know if people here are seeing it but I’m seeing a lot of projects being vibe coded to sort and categorise fonts using AI and it’s clear they are running into the age old problem of “how to to describe and categorise” a font
I saw graffiti talking about “Big Emoji” but the funny thing is big emoji really exists that’s unicode consortium…
These Chinese characters from a paper on typesetting Chinese (using Metafont) with LaTeX lol https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-3/wong.pdf
Does anyone know anything about the broken slash that sometimes appears in precomposed fractions – whether there was a clear first precedent, or if it goes back to metal?
Wonder if anyone knows the typeface used here for 'DIAGRAMS' in the title page of graphis diagrams.
ok now i really need to migrate my font explorer library
Reminder not to keep any UFO files in Dropbox... there's a 300,000 file limit before performance becomes severely degraded.
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I guess that’s what typesample was before it was acquired by typewolf :(
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@btuttle I’m in Melbourne but it looks like I’d only be able to view it with the right credentials. I can try make a request for digitisation maybe if I can come up with a good project.
I don’t check mastodon often so I often miss important discussions. It makes me wish there was some sort of algorithmic timeline function to show me at least when there are active discussions going on.
These look interesting
https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo/index.html
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@liaizon Nah not really. Since the whole type community is here I still need to keep updated – it’s just harder to catch up
I just backed Rajie Cook documentary on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/valentinacanavesio/rajie-cook-documentary
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@tphinney Yes… and the fact that a very large number of emoji proposals are successfully made by a small number of individuals… Big Emoji
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@jenskutilek Yes I've tried it but I found some functionality missing and FE was still working for me so I've held off. The import is also pretty problematic as I end up with a lot of duplicates. Typeface app is based on watching a folder and picking a font from its PS name rather than its path.
@beomdolee@x.com made a 1-v-1 blind vote arena for Korean fonts and Pretendard (derived from Inter + Source Han Sans and M PLUS 1p) came out on top:
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@mark personally I don't actually like media consumption/logging based social media but I think a lot of people do. I miss typesample which was a really good place to save and browse webfonts you and other people saw and liked. I'd link a wayback machine page but it's broken too 😢
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@klim there is! but it's a hack that just adds lines at the end of text boxes and turns text wrapping on for the text box:
https://github.com/freder/extendscripts/tree/master/indesign/flattersatz
I never hear font people talk about slug library but it seems like this is a big deal? @hn50@social.lansky.name