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Hate the font, love the editor. edit: tried to type "à", and the letter is not recognized in the font (appears in red in the editor). Would there be a way to

by pyrale 1y ago

Hate the font, love the editor. edit: tried to type "à", and the letter is not recognized in the font (appears in red in the editor). Would there be a way to tell the editor that "à" = "a" + "`", rather than retyping the symbol from scratch? edit2 : Having to remove all the [2..n] points if you want to change the second point you made is also a bit of a pain, especially for people like me with little experience of where the points end up being on the line vertically.

dheera 1y ago
I want to create a GenAI fork of this where you do one character and it tries to mimic the style for all of the others.
- citizenpaul 1y ago
  I think that would be really difficult to pull off in a way that generates usable fonts. A huge part of fonts is subjective human perception of them. It would be cool for marketing style fonts though.
  - rc1 1y ago
    Looking at the link and the editor, it seems like a feasible fork.
- nph278 1y ago
  Relevant tom7 project: http://tom7.org/lowercase/ http://tom7.org/lowercase/
- niccl 1y ago
  Douglas Hofstadter went there with his Letter Spirit project/concept/something. I can't find a decent single link about it, but there seems to have been an HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754559
  - Vivtek 1y ago
    Gary McGraw was the first doctoral candidate to work on the Letter Spirit project: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/mcgrawg/thesis.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cog... And John Rehling did a second portion in his doctoral work: https://web.archive.org/web/20150320160815/https://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/rehling/lspirit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150320160815/https://www.cogsc... (Thanks for this complaint - I hadn't realized that Rehling's thesis was linked from the Waybacked version of his personal page, and that finally completes my collection!) You can also read Chapter 10 in Hofstadter's 1995 book "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" for a pretty solid overview. But yeah, seeing this project immediately reminded me of Letter Spirit, since it's basically a web editor for gridfonts.

by pyrale 1y ago

dheera 1y ago

I want to create a GenAI fork of this where you do one character and it tries to mimic the style for all of the others.

citizenpaul 1y ago
I think that would be really difficult to pull off in a way that generates usable fonts. A huge part of fonts is subjective human perception of them. It would be cool for marketing style fonts though.
- rc1 1y ago
  Looking at the link and the editor, it seems like a feasible fork.
nph278 1y ago
Relevant tom7 project: http://tom7.org/lowercase/ http://tom7.org/lowercase/
niccl 1y ago
Douglas Hofstadter went there with his Letter Spirit project/concept/something. I can't find a decent single link about it, but there seems to have been an HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754559
- Vivtek 1y ago
  Gary McGraw was the first doctoral candidate to work on the Letter Spirit project: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/mcgrawg/thesis.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cog... And John Rehling did a second portion in his doctoral work: https://web.archive.org/web/20150320160815/https://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/rehling/lspirit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150320160815/https://www.cogsc... (Thanks for this complaint - I hadn't realized that Rehling's thesis was linked from the Waybacked version of his personal page, and that finally completes my collection!) You can also read Chapter 10 in Hofstadter's 1995 book "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" for a pretty solid overview. But yeah, seeing this project immediately reminded me of Letter Spirit, since it's basically a web editor for gridfonts.