"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."
"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."
"... 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"
"[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)
"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