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   by cormullion 4y ago

   not too shabby
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   Pical – 24 hour calendar for iPhone and ADHD sufferers(24hourtime.info)

   1 points by cormullion 4y ago|0 comments
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   by cormullion 4y ago

   Cot Editor has loads of tabs. Also supports ligatures and OpenType features.
4. 34.▲
   by cormullion 4y ago

   There’s an iOS app which simulates it. Playing with the Antikythera mechanism on an iPhone certainly spans some history…
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   by cormullion 5y ago

   CotEditor has excellent typography support. Invaluable for testing fonts.
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   by cormullion 5y ago

   5 or 6 is usual, there are 7s too https://github.com/cormullion/know-your-fonts/blob/master/as...
7. 37.▲
   by cormullion 5y ago

   >comforting and yet stern, disciplined yet easy, regimented yet flexible I admire the marketing copy very much!
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   by cormullion 5y ago

   Another site for comparing fonts is the excellent https://devfonts.gafi.dev/ . This also doesn't have MonoLisa, though.
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   by cormullion 5y ago

   I recall (there’s a video by the font’s designer somewhere on YouTube) that IBM were paying over $1 million annually to license Helvetica, so one reason would be cost saving.
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    I liked the apt reference to the “blue pencil”, “used specifically because it will not show in some lithographic or photographic reproduction processes.” (wikipedia)
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    The Adobe you started your relationship with decades ago was a great company. I wonder when it started to go wrong…
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    Clocks with a hand that circles once per day are as old as the clock itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_analog_dial
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    These visual displays are very useful. Here's how the Julia REPL shows them: https://github.com/JuliaAudio/SampledSignals.jl#repl-display
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    I have one on mu iPad. There are 2 in the App Store, I think.
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    I was intrigued by this chap when I read about him, hence an unworthy attempt here: https://github.com/cormullion/Mellan.jl
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    This page ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sandf... ) has a picture of a mechanical pocket watch from the 1880s belonging to Sandford Fleming with the letters shown against each hour.
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    This odd but strangely entertaining site looks at the maths of the crop-circles - http://www.hypermaths.org/cropcircles/
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    by cormullion 5y ago

    Luc(as) de Groot hosts a battle between TrueType and PostScript curves here: https://youtu.be/I75Efo7whrs Once there you'll find other TypoLabs talks... Mike Abbink gave a great presentation about the development of IB
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    by cormullion 6y ago

    Input Mono, like many monospaced fonts, has the `zero slash` extra, which you can should be able to use if your application lets you choose the alternates and stylistic sets provided by OpenType fonts ( https://docs.microsoft.com&
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    by cormullion 6y ago

    not sure "hand" would be true, though: https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-archive/gallery/2016/nov/18/...
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    by cormullion 6y ago

    "U+FDE3" should be U+FD3E, ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS.
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    by cormullion 6y ago

    This is a great article - interesting, well-written and beautifully presented! A minor quibble in the typography - the use of small caps for every initial letter is slightly catching my eye every time I see it. Perhaps I don't see enou
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    by cormullion 7y ago

    I used a track from the Open Goldberg Variations ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Goldberg_Variations ) recorded by pianist Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka. Some company sent me a copyright claim presumably for a differen
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    2020 Visual Identity: The View at the Starting Line(papenhe.im)

    1 points by cormullion 7y ago|0 comments
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    by cormullion 7y ago

    Did your system design your logo?
26. 56.▲
    by cormullion 8y ago

    Yes.
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    by cormullion 8y ago

    Last year I received a YouTube copyright claim against my use of an extract from the Open Goldberg Variations: https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org which I presume was generated by an automated process that couldn't accur
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    by cormullion 8y ago

    This may be an example of the frequency illusion, or Baader-Meinhof effect, which I've only recently become aware of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ... The vast Julia PR machine is ce
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    by cormullion 8y ago

    I don't think you need to be good at maths to use Julia. I'm glad I learned some basic trigonometry at school, though...
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    by cormullion 8y ago

    I thinking quoting from just one side of the argument is unfair, particularly if you’re drawing conclusions.