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Mathematically inspired typefaces

69 points by sohkamyung 5y ago

yamchah2 5y ago
Anyone know how I can read this without making an account?
- FabHK 5y ago
  Usually I read the NYT with JavaScript disabled, but while that does display the text, it doesn't show the illustrations and fonts...
- chinmaykunkikar 5y ago
  Yes. Try this bookmarklet called Readium (https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/). It works great for NYTimes, Medium, Bloomberg. Some more info about this - On Medium, it only works on urls with 'medium.com' in them. Won't work on other custom Medium domains (like betterprogramming.pub) because of a CORS related issue. It works by fooling the site by making a fetch() call to the current url without sending cookies to the site.
- sverona 5y ago
  Prepend https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ to the URL.
- zksmk 5y ago
  If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's something for Chromium browsers too.
- orangegreen 5y ago
  If you want a more manual solution you can get the Chrome extension Stylebot [1] and add this custom style for nytimes.com: #app > div > div { position: unset; overflow: visible; height: unset; width: unset; } #app > div > div > div:last-child { display: none; } [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
  Turn off javascript. There are extensions that make a clickable toggle for JS.
ghusbands 5y ago
https://archive.is/Yc7ae https://archive.is/Yc7ae
mettamage 5y ago
The son (Erik Demaine) of this father and son team is a good teacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Oq3tWYp6V_F-5jb5L2iHb&index=6&ab_channel=MITOpenCourseWare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
- deleted 5y ago
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svat 5y ago
Play with the fonts here: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ — for each one, there's a webpage which lets you enter your own text, and also has some information about that typeface and related mathematics. These fonts are of course more about the latter (can we create letter shapes subject to these constraints) than anything you'd set a page of text in, but that doesn't make them any less fun.
- schmorptron 5y ago
  Wow, those are sick! Especially ones like Ada could be really cool for some sort of science fiction logo :)
IAmGraydon 5y ago
> The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse — is of unknown origin. It’s pretty discouraging when the first sentence is patently incorrect. https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html
- svat 5y ago
  Anyone can state an etymology with more certainty than warranted; that doesn't mean the etymology is actually known. The page you quoted says: > The word Puzzle comes from pusle “bewilder, confound” which is a frequentive of the obsolete verb pose (from Medieval French aposer) in sense of “perplex”. But etymonline (Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary) says (https://www.etymonline.com/word/puzzle https://www.etymonline.com/word/puzzle): > 1590s, pusle "bewilder, confound, perplex with difficult problems or questions," possibly frequentative of pose (v.) in obsolete sense of "perplex" (compare nuzzle from nose). Note the word "possibly". Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puzzle&oldid=1029570961#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puzzle&oldid=1029...) says: > The etymology of the verb puzzle is described by [the Oxford English Dictionary] as "unknown"; unproven hypotheses regarding its origin include an Old English verb puslian meaning 'pick out', and a derivation of the verb pose. And this is the full note in the version of OED I have access to: > [Note. For the etymology of puzzle the first question is the relation of the n. and vb. The vb. has been held to be derived from the n., and the latter viewed as an aphetic form of apposal or opposal. But the chronology of the words, and still more the consideration of their sense-history, seem to make it clear that the verb came first, and that the n. was its derivative. In the light of this, the vb. has been referred to pose v. 2, as a diminutive (or other derivative formation), as in suck, suckle. This is phonetically possible: cf. nuzzle from nose. But there are serious difficulties in the signification. Of the earlier sense of puzzle, as seen in the examples under 1a above, no trace appears in the original sense of pose and appose `to examine by putting questions', and it is only the derivative senses 2 of pose and 1c of puzzle that come into contact. Thus their relation seems to be that of two words originally distinct, which (as in some other cases) have subsequently attracted each other. Puzzle was possibly the same verb of which the pa. pple. poselet occurs late in the 14th c., app. in the sense `bewildered, confused, confounded', and which, riming with hoselet, i.e. hūselet, housled, was prob. pronounced (ˈpuːzəlɛt), which would regularly give by 1600 (ˈpʊzlɛd), later (ˈpʌzlɛd). The non-appearance of the verb during the intervening 200 years might be owing to its being one of the colloquial words which came into literary use in the 16th c. This is however conjectural and, even if true, leaves the ulterior derivation still to seek. (A verb of similar form appears in late OE. puslian `to pick out best pieces of food' (Sweet), = Du. peuzelen to pick, to piddle, LG. pöseln, pusseln, Norw. pusla; but it is difficult to see in its sense any connexion with that of `puzzle'.)]
slver 5y ago
Wow. Terrible.
TheRealNGenius 5y ago
Mathematical fonts for curiosity rather than utility
- montroser 5y ago
  Yes, this is all much more about the journey than the destination. For me that is a detractor, but it's interesting nonetheless.

69 points by sohkamyung 5y ago

yamchah2 5y ago

Anyone know how I can read this without making an account?

FabHK 5y ago
Usually I read the NYT with JavaScript disabled, but while that does display the text, it doesn't show the illustrations and fonts...
chinmaykunkikar 5y ago
Yes. Try this bookmarklet called Readium (https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/). It works great for NYTimes, Medium, Bloomberg. Some more info about this - On Medium, it only works on urls with 'medium.com' in them. Won't work on other custom Medium domains (like betterprogramming.pub) because of a CORS related issue. It works by fooling the site by making a fetch() call to the current url without sending cookies to the site.
sverona 5y ago
Prepend https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ to the URL.
zksmk 5y ago
If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's something for Chromium browsers too.
orangegreen 5y ago
If you want a more manual solution you can get the Chrome extension Stylebot [1] and add this custom style for nytimes.com: #app > div > div { position: unset; overflow: visible; height: unset; width: unset; } #app > div > div > div:last-child { display: none; } [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...
6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
Turn off javascript. There are extensions that make a clickable toggle for JS.

ghusbands 5y ago

https://archive.is/Yc7ae https://archive.is/Yc7ae

mettamage 5y ago

The son (Erik Demaine) of this father and son team is a good teacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61Oq3tWYp6V_F-5jb5L2iHb&index=6&ab_channel=MITOpenCourseWare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

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svat 5y ago

Play with the fonts here: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ — for each one, there's a webpage which lets you enter your own text, and also has some information about that typeface and related mathematics. These fonts are of course more about the latter (can we create letter shapes subject to these constraints) than anything you'd set a page of text in, but that doesn't make them any less fun.

schmorptron 5y ago
Wow, those are sick! Especially ones like Ada could be really cool for some sort of science fiction logo :)

IAmGraydon 5y ago

> The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse — is of unknown origin. It’s pretty discouraging when the first sentence is patently incorrect. https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html

svat 5y ago
Anyone can state an etymology with more certainty than warranted; that doesn't mean the etymology is actually known. The page you quoted says: > The word Puzzle comes from pusle “bewilder, confound” which is a frequentive of the obsolete verb pose (from Medieval French aposer) in sense of “perplex”. But etymonline (Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary) says (https://www.etymonline.com/word/puzzle https://www.etymonline.com/word/puzzle): > 1590s, pusle "bewilder, confound, perplex with difficult problems or questions," possibly frequentative of pose (v.) in obsolete sense of "perplex" (compare nuzzle from nose). Note the word "possibly". Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puzzle&oldid=1029570961#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puzzle&oldid=1029...) says: > The etymology of the verb puzzle is described by [the Oxford English Dictionary] as "unknown"; unproven hypotheses regarding its origin include an Old English verb puslian meaning 'pick out', and a derivation of the verb pose. And this is the full note in the version of OED I have access to: > [Note. For the etymology of puzzle the first question is the relation of the n. and vb. The vb. has been held to be derived from the n., and the latter viewed as an aphetic form of apposal or opposal. But the chronology of the words, and still more the consideration of their sense-history, seem to make it clear that the verb came first, and that the n. was its derivative. In the light of this, the vb. has been referred to pose v. 2, as a diminutive (or other derivative formation), as in suck, suckle. This is phonetically possible: cf. nuzzle from nose. But there are serious difficulties in the signification. Of the earlier sense of puzzle, as seen in the examples under 1a above, no trace appears in the original sense of pose and appose `to examine by putting questions', and it is only the derivative senses 2 of pose and 1c of puzzle that come into contact. Thus their relation seems to be that of two words originally distinct, which (as in some other cases) have subsequently attracted each other. Puzzle was possibly the same verb of which the pa. pple. poselet occurs late in the 14th c., app. in the sense `bewildered, confused, confounded', and which, riming with hoselet, i.e. hūselet, housled, was prob. pronounced (ˈpuːzəlɛt), which would regularly give by 1600 (ˈpʊzlɛd), later (ˈpʌzlɛd). The non-appearance of the verb during the intervening 200 years might be owing to its being one of the colloquial words which came into literary use in the 16th c. This is however conjectural and, even if true, leaves the ulterior derivation still to seek. (A verb of similar form appears in late OE. puslian `to pick out best pieces of food' (Sweet), = Du. peuzelen to pick, to piddle, LG. pöseln, pusseln, Norw. pusla; but it is difficult to see in its sense any connexion with that of `puzzle'.)]

slver 5y ago

Wow. Terrible.

TheRealNGenius 5y ago

Mathematical fonts for curiosity rather than utility

montroser 5y ago
Yes, this is all much more about the journey than the destination. For me that is a detractor, but it's interesting nonetheless.