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by jack_jennings 9y ago
My argument is only that starting with the proportion and metrics of Roboto and not changing them means that what you will end up with at best is a marginal improvment over Roboto. If "marinal improvement over Roboto" is what you
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Except that isn't how font metrics work—the size of the type on the body is not necessarily equivalent between two different fonts. There is no stanard that says that 12pt Times shares any vertical metrics with 12pt Helvetica, or 12pt
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
The comparison is not great for objective comparison—the metrics of Interface have been changed so that 11px =/= 11px from one to the other… this was the best approximation that I could get in-browser. Usually you'd want to set th
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Hi Rasmus, I think that at the point size at which this is meant to be used—e.g. around 11px ( https://rsms.me/interface/lab/?size=11&compare=roboto ) —the differences between the two become harder to distinguis
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Compare Futura's "tail-less t": http://www.identifont.com/show?M2 to Source Sans with a hooked tail: http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Source+Sans&q=Go
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Slashed 0 and Ø in nordic countries. Though not abiguous in sharing the exact same shapes, many characters can share similar structures that (arguably; citation needed) can cause visual confusion. For example; 3 and 8 in a typeface like Hel
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
This is based on Roboto (reusing some outlines directly; not initially acknowledged by the designer on the marketing site), and arguably doesn't tread much new ground either in character or use-case or license. Not convinced there is a
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
In a nutshell—don't run a social network of any kind if you don't have the financial backing for all the mess that comes with running a social network.
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Mentioned this as a reply, but perhaps worth posting again: check out https://are.na if you are one of the folks yearning for a similar thing (that isn't pinterest). Arena is certainly a tool for a certain niche, but it has
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
https://www.are.na is kinda like this in a wierd, niche tool for internet/image archiving. You either love the interface or don't get it, but a potential replacement nonetheless.
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
Matthew recently moved off of twitter and publishes an email newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/mbutterick It is one of the few newsletters that I actually enjoy reading and is satisfyingly infrequent.
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I have looked over the shoulder of many designers that spend days doing manual repetitive tasks. Perhaps not so reductive as direct image transforms, but making small variations of a single image, SVG, PDF,
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
My read was references to JavaScript (largely a codeword for web development, even if it can now be used in a larger context), and repeated references to building a product (which in context seemed to imply working directly on shipping code
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
I fit into the niche skillset described in this article and disagree with this argument in part (I actually attended RISD as a graphic design student during Maeda's somewhat short tenure as president, and now run a small web dev shop).
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
For those curious, the source code is here: https://github.com/frnsys/the_founder
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by jack_jennings 10y ago
Additional reading from the type archivists at Fonts in Use: http://fontsinuse.com/uses/13992/stranger-things A few nice quotes about the design direction and a pair of comments at the end with illustrations of th
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
The implicit return in the last variation of arrow functions presented is a terrible implementation mistake and not a win for clarity nor consistency.
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
This might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/segmentio/myth
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Global App Madness(posts.postlight.com)
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
How could you not like this with that mascot?
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Before clicking the link I wondered how this would translate the block-based Ruby API into Python. Using Python's with statement is quite nice here, I think. The with statement is one of my favorite additions to the language. It's
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
I was intrigued by this comment and went searching for this. From this FastCompany article it's inspired by Futura and Univers though sounds like it's more or less a custom job: > At the time, Lindon was "in love with two
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Right, though I'm skeptical that the program would also be able to correctly identify the motivation for the typeface, which drives all of the decisions about how it behaves. That component of the program would end up being far more co
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
I think that your analogy is slightly off, though true enough. I'd say that writing a low level library is more akin to actually drawing a typeface than it is to mucking with the spacing of an existing one. You won't learn a lot a
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
To be pedantic (though I imagine that's acceptable in this venue) I'd say this is not kerning. Kerning is an optical adjustment between individual letter pairs to correct a deficiency in a historically evolved system, somewhat sep
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Not an easy phenomenon to describe or even illustrate. I believe that some legibility come through slightly uneven textures that are created by varying shapes that words create and the "color" (density of light and dark) that is c
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
I agree, and there will always be bad digitizations or just bad fonts. My practical advice is mostly that if you find yourself having to kern more than one or two pairs you're better off finding a better typeface.
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
This is called "Optical" kerning in Adobe products. In general it's a good time saving device if for some reason you're using a typeface with no kerning pairs defined, but the result often ends up looking robotic and eit
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
While the tips presented are fine if you actually need to kern something, in realty the only time you would ever need to do this is if you're using a font that is poorly made, or if you're designing your own typeface. If you'
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
They are generated. The only web-font being loaded is the Roman style (upright), and the browser is mechanically skewing it to try to replicate the italic. This is really noticeable when it's done to serifed typefaces, because the ital

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