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I like those typefaces where people try to recreate/transpose/keep alive a quite physical impression into the digital realm. I always think fondly about the fo
by sdoering 2y ago
I like those typefaces where people try to recreate/transpose/keep alive a quite physical impression into the digital realm.
I always think fondly about the font Brian [1] by Jon Hicks recreating his late father’s (I think architectural) writing.
[1]: https://hicks.design/shop/bryan https://hicks.design/shop/bryan
- card_zero 2y agoOh that's nice! I like to use handwriting fonts for coding, I might try this one.
- starquake 2y agoOh my, that's so far off of my preferences of coding fonts. Do you have an example screenshot of what that looks like?
- card_zero 2y agoSure. I found a font called "Guillermonkey", it disambiguates upper case i, lower case L, and 1, and it has slashed zeroes, and looks kinda cheerful. https://ibb.co/s15QMpH https://ibb.co/s15QMpH
- afandian 2y agoThe Dijkstra one is fun. https://rrt.sc3d.org/Design/Font/Dijkstra/ https://rrt.sc3d.org/Design/Font/Dijkstra/
- hoosieree 2y agoThis struck me as well. There seems to be something magical about finding a good aesthetic within the router's constraints (sharp intersections but rounded line endings). It fits with my theory about why APL's glyphs look "better" to me than newer unicode-based symbol languages like (BQN, Uiua, etc). I think it's because APL's symbols were developed to be hand-written on chalkboards. Those constraints are much more severe compared to a purely computer-based font.
- nsriv 2y agoThis is such a beautiful story, thanks for sharing!