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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
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"