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I wonder is there ever going to be a random generator parameter as part of font spec, so we have true handwritten fonts where a letter repeated will not be iden
by dostick 3y ago
I wonder is there ever going to be a random generator parameter as part of font spec, so we have true handwritten fonts where a letter repeated will not be identical, you know, as if it would be if handwritten.
- zimpenfish 3y agoBack in 1998?9? I modified a Postscript font to introduce some random jiggling[0] to make it look organic. Worked pretty well. Would occasionally go nuts and you'd get carnage but definitely workable for doing, e.g., sheets of address labels for competition entries which would often reject / frown upon "computer-aided entries". But I think TTF and OTF engines ignore randomness these days and all you're left with is the rotate/swap methods mentioned here[1] [0] I was just copying the idea off something else I'd seen recently; probably the Beowulf PS font where "each point in each letter in every word on the page would move randomly, giving the letters a shaken, distraught appearance" [1] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/26833/handwriting-font-that-at-random-picks-characters https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/26833/hand...
- chrismorgan 3y agoYou can already do this to a considerable extent, and a couple of handwriting font generators support the notion, but it’s still fairly manual. In order to do it all realistically, font formats just aren’t the right primitives, and I doubt they ever can be (though… hmm, wonder if the HarfBuzz WASM thing might be applicable): you need something more like stylus data, e.g. a sequence of {x, y, tilt, pressure} for every 5ms, which you can then jitter and vary realistically.