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Re: bar and broken bar
IBM video card ROMs had the pipe symbol (|) displayed as a broken bar. Anyone who grew up with the early *GA video cards will recognise the font instantly: Note that the solid bar on the 6th line is …3 -
Re: Béziers: Lettering digitization app for iOS
Right. It has to make a decision on if you’re tapping near a node or near the path, because you’ll never hit the node’s location exactly dead on. If the two are close it may well make the wrong choic…1 -
Béziers: Lettering digitization app for iOS
I've just released the first version of Béziers for iOS. It's a vector graphics editor specially designed for digitizing lettering projects on the iPhone or iPad. You can take a picture of …6 -
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 de…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 d…2