Bucktooth 2.0 key layout for Preonic by jeriClaire · Pull Request #5258 · qmk/qmk_firmware
good iso keyboard layout, for reference, even if the specifics aren't for me
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves - Linebender
"This curve behaves surprisingly similarly to a cubic Bézier, especially at smaller angles, but when pushed has very different behavior. Overall it has smoother curvature variation and is more likely to have monotonic curvature. It contains within it a few valuable analytic curves, and is also good at approximating a wide range of others."
How to Read a Visual Poem – Keith S. Wilson
succinct, clear, good references
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva
"An Arabic font is a small program. The text you store is its input, not its output. The word is performed fresh every time you look at it, like music from a score."
Unicode Visual Explorer
"A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard."
❒ Tofu | CJK Han Character Comparison Tool
great tool for comparing how hanzi are rendered in different regions
I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either – Aresluna
"But it’s not just ergonomics. One new of anything means more cognitive load. Fluid and natural keyboard use cannot blossom when a system of modifiers and shortcuts is confusing, inconsistent even between platforms that Apple controls, and when any time you use a third-party keyboard, some keys are unavailable, and some menus lie to you."
Typotheque: A typeface in four dimensions
beautiful font, fun visualization
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
really cool documentation of a project applying nearest-neighbor search to vectors representing spatial coverage of ascii characters for doing image to ascii rendering. great application of machine learning techniques, typography, experimental iteration
The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language - Aether Mug
"It's like reading in stereo, where sometimes the same message is conveyed to you in two different formats on separate channels, and sometimes two messages blend together as something new."
Flexflex
a "typeface that responts to spatial requirements rather than imposing them" implemented as a JavaScript library; follows additional constraints like not using any non-diagonal straight lines
The typographic irregular - by Paul Soulellis
"Can the refusal to deliver perfect legibility be an act of care, a worldview, an intentional practice, even? Deviant design—hand-made letterforms, odd spacing, crowded pages, encoded messages, mimicry, unpredictability—exposes labor and reveals the messiness of political life and work in the collective. Some kind of evidence of human life is made real there in the disruption of the perfect read, in the slowed-down act of reading variant bodies of design that makes felt the work of shaping language."
Wild West Fonts
ttf fonts with wood type distressing and sort of an "overexposed microfiche" look?
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100) — The Public Domain Review
"Here sonic absence is visualized, and it is yellow.... Auditory interruption gets transposed onto the textual plane, as the rectangle veils the ruled lines it floats above.... The effect becomes all the more palpable when we consider that the manuscript may have been read aloud."
Bjørn Karmann › Occlusion Grotesque
"... an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually"
Make Me a Hanzi | Free, open-source Chinese character data
"[a] dictionary and graphical data for over 9000 of the most common simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Among other things, this data includes stroke-order vector graphics for all these characters." (via gábor ugray's !!con 2020 talk)
The internet could learn a lot from the VR sign language community | Rock Paper Shotgun
"Even the fancier controllers of Valve’s Index kits don’t let you separate your fingers to produce the Ws or Vs necessary for some words. [...] It’s a lovely avenue of human connection, but I can also imagine linguists frothing over VR sign language. There’s a great example in Syrmor’s video where a currently learning interpreter called Quentin explains that because the W restriction means they can’t use the normal word for ‘world’, they instead mimic the appearance of a portal opening up in VR. They’ve also got different ways of signing words depending on your gear, which is both fascinating and mildly concerning." that must feel weird
Variable Fonts
"A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts"
Bit Tripper
"Create a unique bitfont from a vast space of glyphs generated by a neural network." yacht/counterpoint
Joel Simon on Twitter: "New work in my Dimension of Dialogue series :) Two neural nets learn to communicate through their own emergent visual language. The resulting alphabet is a product of their adversarial and cooperative relationship. Here set in clay
"Two neural nets learn to communicate through their own emergent visual language."
Vectoglyph | Nicolas Boillot | Fluate.net
gpt-2 on svg for generated emoji and letterforms