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Re: Introducing Colr Pak - a free open source editor for COLR v0 and v1 fonts
I have been contributing non color related improvement in Colr Pak back to upstream fontra, such as Webfont(woff2) export, update button in Linux and Windows msi installer1 -
Re: How did you used to do interpolations without middle masters?
I had a .py export script that could make substitutions at locations on the axis. For example wt>600 for the a glyph, python would swap it for a.black or whatever. Didn't have to use it that …1 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
It’s a nice idea, but in my review of the accountancy pages of writing masters’ exemplars I have observed the opposite: the J-like 1 is not used in this context (at least, not in the 18th Century and…1 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
And here, just because it is so glorious, is an invoice written by Joseph Champion, also from The Universal Penman. If we ever do get to the stage where text is being reliably and cleanly composed on…1 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Oh, and here is a lovely example of cursively connected numerals, from Geroge Snell’s The Art of Writing (1712).1 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Oddly, tonight I was in a history lecture and when she saw what I was taking pictures of, the lecturer told me that J-shaped ones were also often used in financial records because they were more diff…2 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Two from the church I'm in this evening - one more like John's J-shape, and one that I feel is a bit more like an inversed version of the "integral 1":2 -
Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
We are pleased—finally!—to begin releasing videos from the ATypI 2025 Copenhagen conference. We open with the following five talks: * Petra Rüth — Backslanted Scripts in the Early Modern Period * Jul…4 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
Ah, yes, the Darién Gap; the reason why the Pan-American Highway isn't fully continuous.As to Greenland... while I did once in my youth idly think that Greenland was big enough that maybe it sho…1 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
Also, at a practical level, the division between North America and South America is very specifically the Darién Gap, which is completely impassable to vehicles (and extremely challenging and dangero…2
