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You could in theory do just that, but the amount of work to achieve that would be staggering, automated or not. What we really need in this world is procedural
by capableweb 5y ago
You could in theory do just that, but the amount of work to achieve that would be staggering, automated or not.
What we really need in this world is procedural/generated-on-the-fly fonts, where you setup how the font is suppose to react to X and then use that.
- colejohnson66 5y agoKnuth's METAFONT might help, but it never took off because font designers aren't mathematicians or programmers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/the-concept-of-a-meta-font.pdf https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/...
- robocat 5y agoThere is also https://spectral.prototypo.io/ https://spectral.prototypo.io/ which was an unsuccessful startup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24911784