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Fans of the @FediverseSymbol and the wider fediverse should be pleased to note that my newly released Rainbow Rocket font (see up), not only supports the fediverse symbol, ⁂, but also has the colour palette Fedi based on the 5-node fedigram (which i think works better with darker backgrounds).

#FediverseSymbol #Font

#Font #CubicType #Swiftie #RainbowRocket #ad

My Rainbow Rocket colour font released today (see up) includes a "Swiftie compatible" colour palette set. Colours taken from Swift’s albums, with the `taylor` R package as a starting point.

Represented are: TSSNTV - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), RedTV - Red (Taylor’s Version), TS1989TVSB - 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Sunrise Boulevard vinyl pressing, and TSLover - Lover.

Swifties, follow and DM for a 100% discount coupon for the TS zip (4 fonts).

@drj
An awesome idea! I understand how you synchronize the colors between adjacent letters, but I'm totally lost at the synchronization between lines... How is that possible at all?

@iorsh that bit more or less happens by itself. When text-shaping a layout engine starts each line in the same fresh state (or possibly, paragraph, Firefox tends to pretend a paragraph is a very long line). Each stripe in the pattern repeating module (8, if the pattern repeats every 8) corresponds to a group of (coloured) glyphs that all start in the same pattern position. At the beginning of a line, they are all nudged into the same group. Some discussion at https://home.octetfont.com/blog/ripple.html

Rainbow Ripple, how do you ripple?

@drj
So your samples are not centered, but rather have some space ahead of shorter words and behind them?

@iorsh each glyph is a fixed number of stripes wide (which required quite a few adjustments). and each one comes in many colour variants (corresponding to the starting point within the pattern). I'm not sure what you mean by samples?

@iorsh oh, or do you mean for Rainbow Ripple? in many ways, that's simpler, because each glyph is the same width. So, yes, they are even more obviously all multiples of a common module.

@drj
In the "AUTUMN LEAVES", "L" is not flushed to left, but has 4 stripes before it. Is there a special character which adds these stripes? "FEVER DREAMS" have 3 stripes before "F".

@iorsh yes, i just worked out what you meant and was coming back to type a reply. :)

Absolutely, yes U+200A, U+2009, U+2008, are respectively 1-, 2-, and 3-stripes wide (the regular space is 4). I was intending to write a short note about it.

@drj
That's just amazing, in total. Looks like a sheer magic ✨

@iorsh thanks!

Stefan Bartsch Jun 12, 2025

@drj Cool, some look really nice but others have a weird effect. After a while it feels like looking at an old CRT TV Screen and makes the font hard to read for me.