wonderful
a 1937 book on printing type turned into a website
https://www.c82.net/printing-types/
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Jonatan Hildén
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mastodon 4.7.3Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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Nice. Apparently a Japanese copy of a Swedish safety match box from the 1800s, complete with fake Latin text. Looks like nonsense text in old anime or ai images! From this amazing oldstyle collector's website http://www.teknokekko.fi/historia.html
God Emperor of Dune but make it British children’s book (testing daughter’s copics)
Noticed a fun Finland detail in the 2024 documentary ”Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron”:
A picture of a book cover, with Gallen-Kallela’s Sibelius portrait is prominently visible in Miyazaki’s workspace.
True enough, the portrait is a direct inspiration for the portrait of the granduncle seen in the film.
The painting has obvious Japanese influences, so this becomes a full circle of influences of sorts. Not rare with Miyazaki!
Old Sibelius didn’t end up looking like the old wizard, however!
Found the purest website today
www.walter-fendt.de
Retired German maths/physics teacher.
He's still publishing stuff, there's html5 math explainers in many languages!
Seems we have bad Enviolo karma (rear hub with stepless gears). First hub on the cargo bike unscrewed itself after 145km. Now the one we got as a replacement started making weird noises around 9,800km and is doing a disorienting wobble if pedalling backwards. Manufacturer claims they last 30k km. #cycling
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For the poor international readers: this is a toy website that challenges you to make endless looping compound words, because it is something you can do in Finnish. Also in German, Icelandic, Swedish… although in those you need to handle the combos like "tvättmaskin+s+försäljar-e +möte". This does gleefully ignore similar complexities that do exist in Finnish too.
Idly wondering, what is the most complex / well made handwriting-simulation typeface made?
Underware’s faces are pretty benchmark, like Scribo, with 1403 glyphs that substitute as you type.
Finnish is merciless, as you can see in the image below, ”tt” and ”ä” characters repeat.
https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/scribo
Animated ”the Phantom” 1990s cyberpunk series with characters by Peter Chung, the creator of cult animation Æon Flux. Very silly/goes hard. Like they tried to do something Captain Planet-y for slightly older kids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040
The whole thing is on YouTube, published officially by the rights holder
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgkKj2n1LjA_VzcrpMQ8l_NszGmxAA1d0
Wow,
As a fan of both Isotype and Marie Neurath’s work and Herbert Bayer’s World geo-graphic atlas it is a bit weird and disappointing to read how the latter plagiarized the former! Article from 2017 by Eric Kindel.
#history #infographics
https://isotyperevisited.org/2023/07/isotype-and-herbert-bayers-world-geo-graphic-atlas.php
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@db@typo.social Interestingly, they also have this alternate version that sidesteps some technical limitations.
https://www.underware.nl/fonts/scribo/features/write/#feature_info
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Also this linked article by Williams, Ex-Head of UX Design and Accessibility at the BBC:
https://medium.com/the-readability-group/a-guide-to-understanding-what-makes-a-typeface-accessible-and-how-to-make-informed-decisions-9e5c0b9040a0
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This article takes a slightly different angle but is very good about the significant complexities that arise when testing typefaces.
” So if you come across a scientific legibility study that compares typefaces set at the same point size, don’t even bother to read on!”
#legibility #typography #readability https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/06/measuring-performance-typefaces-users-part1/
#QGIS tip
If you have missing absolute links like this
C:\Users\feefoo\Maps\Layers\MyLostMap.shp
You can fix them in ”Handle Unavailable Layers"
by editing the path to a relative link: Layers\MyLostMap.shp
On Mac you need to replace the \ with /.
Sure wish this was more automatic though. Like InDesign is able to find missing layers by just pointing it at the right folder.
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@OhTheUrbanity@mastodon.social Interesting! Before filling in I’d like to ask: who are ”we”, exactly, and what is the wider context of this survey?
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@db@typo.social It is an interesting thing to think about, this interplay between type and handwriting…
If a designer uses a ”handwritten” typeface, how often is the goal for the text to ”pass” as handwritten to a casual observer?
… even Scribo is easily ”caught”, which exposes a practical limitation of the deterministic OpenType engine. A ”true” simulated handwriting typeface would probably be more feasible with some entirely different technology.