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re-learning that lesson biweekly
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Design Regression:
Hyperglot:
I quite enjoy Aphera. Photos are fun again.
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The open-source parts of Hyperglot (database, CLI tools, and Python package) are now licensed under Apache 2.0. This makes it easier to reuse the code, contribute improvements, and integrate Hyperglot into other projects.
If Hyperglot helps your work, you can support database expansion by donating via the site or GitHub ❤️
Explore the new version:
https://hyperglot.rosettatype.com
Feedback and contributions are very welcome.
Pretty much reflects my reasoning why I won’t be going to the ATypI conference in the US. Paying little attention to the conference for years, I have made an exception last year and applied (you know, Stanford etc.). My proposal was selected (for which I am grateful and honoured), so I am hoping, it will be possible to present virtually.
Any Czech person would avoid using háček/caron in their passwords exactly for this reason.
(Years of encoding oppression and all that. :)
I will be adding more “a”s to All types of… in the next few Mondays.
Here is the whimsical “a” from the recently released Le Cygne by @antonmoglia@mastodon.design
I have brought a bunch of specimens (Avory, SkSans) and posters (Adapter and Adapter World) with me. Find me at the @fontstand@typo.social conference if you want some (for free).
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Years after he retired from full-time teaching in 1998, he was teaching almost every week in the department of T&GC in Reading. This is when I met him and how many others remember him. Every Monday, a room packed with exciting new examples from his collection (books, posters, music sheets, catalogues, …). Every week, new smells and new infuriating questions. He was a master of small-group teaching, leading with questions, letting us stew, making us look for clues in what was in front of us.
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The Checker app now runs new automatic font tests:
• mark & accent positioning • positional alternates (e.g. Arabic joining forms) • common conjuncts used for syllable formation (beta testing this with Devanagari/Hindi, more coming soon) + • new sorting options and design requirements
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@fontstand Does the release of the new Hyperglot count?
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@letterror Of course, we should have been triangulatin’ all along.
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Hyperglot is now split into two dedicated apps:
• Database — explore language support requirements • Checker — test your fonts against those requirements
Separating the tools makes them clearer, faster, and easier to use depending on whether you’re researching languages or testing a font.
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Here is what’s new in the Database app:
• new sorting options for navigating language lists, • improved design requirement descriptions (personal fave 😍), • sources for every language, showing where the data comes from, • shaping checks (beta, first few) required for each language.
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@marsidesino nice! Will read. There is also this talk (perhaps related): https://vimeo.com/1061511522?fl=pl&fe=sh
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@letterror@typo.social thank you!
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@eWalthert@typo.social @underware@typo.social He also contributed to Hyperglot of all places! Thank you and rest in peace.
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I can still feel my eyes hurting from staring while I was trying to figure out an answer, frustratingly obscure, but usually so apparent and obvious in retrospect. Artefacts can speak (if you stare :).
This is good. Give it the time!
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@antonmoglia very nice! Do you think I could post the “a” on https://all-types-of-a.rosettatype.com ? I love what you did there!
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@antonmoglia yes, please. E.g. via email david / rosettatype.com or verbatim here.
You might remember the smoking signs of Brno. They are disappearing. :(
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@mwichary@mastodon.online Yeah, universal interface so to speak.
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@frankrolf@typo.social @davidho@mastodon.world when both celebrate the solutions to our most complex problems!
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@mntrs@typo.social not likely. It would need to be someone else organising it. Klimis does not want to do it anymore.
We need to colonise a Greek village and turn it into a typographic retreat, possibly a cult if sufficiently remote.