martin tiefenthaler

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taught typography for 20+ years at ›die graphische‹ in vienna/austria. co-founder of tga (typographic society of austria). now desperately trying to finish my phd, despite too many other projects.
Made with balloons by BLCKSMTH.
Coffee with a view by @letterror on Nieuwe Doelenstraat.
#uva_library #UvA #TypeMedia #letterror
(This is the entire marketing plan for LettError Type in one compact image / catalog and logo.) (and the newsletter of course https://buttondown.com/letterror?tag=typo )
LettError Type

Hey! You’re here, this is good! Sign up for the NewsLTR: my infrequent and yet eagerly awaited (and appreciated) collection of type news and exclusive drawings. By signing up you declare you want to hear these things, and I feel obliged to honour that declaration. Unfettered and unbound by arbitrary algorithmic decisions. Thank you for signing up, it really means a lot!

Reposting this with alt text. In fact the entire description is in the alt text.
"Select all squares with folk metal band logos"

I’ve worked on a small tool to animate and record variable fonts. The Variable Font Animator – A drawing interface makes animating and testing variable fonts easy and fun. You can even record videos directly in your browser. There is no need to take a screen capture anymore. That way you can specify the final video format on the fly.

https://tdbr.xyz/font-animator

Font in use: Recursive by @arrowtype

#VariableFonts #typography #font #creativecoding #code #algorithmic #typedesign #visualization

typo du beau regard

tbdr is a platform where fonts, tools, and experiments live next to each other. Tools like propotion prediction help type designers in their daily work life.

tdbr
@paddleonthesea @florianaigner #Lanz #LastGeneration
das fürchterliche problem mit lanz’ kommentar ist, dass er nicht in der lage ist, die verantwortung für seinen unverantwortlichen kommentar zu übernehmen. er ist schrecklich uninformiert und sollte sich bitte so schnell wie möglich weiterbilden.
@clive this is amazing. thanksalot !

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"