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by california-og 2y ago
This is probably coming to CSS in the coming years. [0] Which makes me very excited for one reason: CSS is nearing feature parity (and surpassing it in some areas) with Adobe InDesign, so we can finally ditch adobe and just make print publi
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by california-og 2y ago
There's one surprising way I still find a lot of great material on Google, which works especially for niche research topics, is to view Image results. I click on any interesting image in the results and then I check the site it's
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by california-og 2y ago
The author of the font made it also Glyph Drawing Club "compatible", which is a modular shape builder I've built that works with font files. You can just drag and drop an otf or ttf file on the app window and it'll load
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by california-og 2y ago
The author is partly right on the right that it was a cultural response to war. Here's a relevant excerpt from the book Dutch Graphic Design, A century of innovation. (2006. P. 76-81). "De Stijl was one of many critical intellectu
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by california-og 3y ago
Are there any digital tools that would replicate the workflow of drawing with ruler and compass? I've tried dozens of different apps but none of them get it quite right. Here's my wishlist: Compass: — Set a radius and "lock&q
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Typographic Art of Valto Malmiola(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
2 points by california-og 3y ago|0 comments
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ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
49 points by california-og 3y ago|37 comments
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by california-og 3y ago
Can you explain or give advice on how one would self-host? In my country none of the main ISPs offer static IPs. They're only available to businesses. Self-hosting with a dynamic IP seems difficult if not impossible. There are some dyn
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by california-og 3y ago
Good eye! I can't remember what was my initial inspiration (could have been the one you linked), but there is also a very similiar character in Pitman's typewriter manual (1893) which is featured in Barrie Tullett's Typewrite
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Amiga ASCII Art(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
221 points by california-og 3y ago|23 comments
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by california-og 3y ago
Any complex combination or arrangement of fleurons or other type ornament is not really possible with any contemporary word processor for one good reason: type is not set by hand anymore. Precise but free placement of glyphs is tedious if n
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by california-og 3y ago
I think that would be ideal. The 'killer' feature would be: Handcraft a set of control characters, like the letters in "handglove" and then let AI generate the rest. Designing a typeface is fun, until you need to add sup