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No, I drew Inconsolata myself, as well as inventing spiral-based tools for designing fonts, as an alternative to Béziers. I started work on it far in advance of
by raphlinus 7y ago
No, I drew Inconsolata myself, as well as inventing spiral-based tools for designing fonts, as an alternative to Béziers. I started work on it far in advance of working on the "Google Font API" as it was called at launch, so it was very natural to include it, along with other great fonts by other talented designers.
I'm glad you like the font!
- amelius 7y agoCurious, have your spiral based tools been documented/published somewhere?
- raphlinus 7y agoBest place is probably my thesis: https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html . All of the code is available under permissive open source license. I've been continuing to poke around with this and hope to have a newer set of tools before long.
- jacobolus 7y agoLet me recommend that anyone interested in fonts, 2d graphics, CAD, etc. read Raph’s thesis. It’s great!
- saghm 7y ago> No, I drew Inconsolata myself, as well as inventing spiral-based tools for designing fonts, as an alternative to Béziers Oh, wow! Keep up the amazing work!
- enriquto 7y ago> No, I drew Inconsolata myself, as well as inventing spiral-based tools for designing fonts, as an alternative to Béziers. Man, I love your phd thesis! I use it regularly to show my students an example of what a PhD is supposed to be; and, independently, to teach them some planar differential geometry. Your study of Euler's elastica is the best written account of it that exists (and I have read many more geometry books that would like to admit).
- VMG 7y agohttps://levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf https://levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf for the curious
- antupis 7y agoThanks for your work, as a programmer with minor dyslexia Inconsolata, was heaven sent to me.