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> What I really want is a custom > font of my handwriting that wiggles > each character just a little bit About an hour ago, I replied to this with "Yo
by peteretep 10y ago
> What I really want is a custom
> font of my handwriting that wiggles
> each character just a little bit
About an hour ago, I replied to this with "You can use ligatures for that". Then I thought about it and thought "I'd better explain what I mean". And I was thinking of a system where you use characters near another character - even those up to two or three characters away, to essentially act as a random seed for the selection of a given character, using a very large number of pre-generated ligatures.
Then I thought: huh, that's pretty clever. I should look at patents for that.
Anyway: someone else got there first: read this:
http://www.underware.nl/case-studies/random-vs-clever/ http://www.underware.nl/case-studies/random-vs-clever/
- kator 10y agoVery cool read thank you for sharing!
- posterboy 10y agoGiven that I am doing that daily in handwriting, I suppose that's prior art?
- tobltobs 10y agoAn interesting fact of the history of self modifying fonts is that one of the first of those fonts, the FF Beowolf, was created by Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland. And Just van Rossum is the brother of Guido van Rossum. Some more details from FontFont: "FF Beowolf was born at the end of the dark and murky 1980s when Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland found a way to change the programming in PostScript fonts. When printed, each point in each letter in every word on the page would move randomly, giving the letters a shaken, distraught appearance."