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Gerard Unger, 1942-2018
For those who have not heard, Gerry Leonidas posted the news on Twitter that Gerard Unger has passed away. A great loss to the world of type design.9 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
The bigger problem here is Brandolini's Law: the amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.11 -
Re: Komik Ohne: A casual brush-pen blackletter
I love it, but I think I love it because I get it. For type people, this is recognisably blackletter because of the broken textura construction, yadda yadda. But for non-type people, the characterist…3 -
Re: Rounded font workflow?
I was thinking the other day about the bone effect when automatically adding caps and joins to offset curves. I wonder if the effect is simply a case of curvature discontinuity. We're used to dealing…2 -
Re: Python library for direct Bezier manipulation
The way I'm doing offsetting is slightly sneaky. I sample the original curve, offset the sampled points, and then run a curve fitting algorithm. (What can I say? There isn't a good way to do it, and …2
