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My hands tired, my heart aches.
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Still gathering Schrofer code … one recent update to @drawBot broke my original code for recreating the script patterns on the covers of Mouton's Les Textes Sociologiques series, but: revisions, et voila. Reconstruction, examples of the original covers, Schrofer's plan on graph paper, and a field showing the gamut of the variable font's horizontal/vertical stroke:counter axes.
Archive images courtesy the Jurriaan Schrofer Archive, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam.
One thing that came out of my research for Beyond Bézier is the Stroke Scribbler, a @RoboFont extension that creates a Noordzij-style cross-hatch to de-emphasize shapes’ outlines.
It’s been programmed by (the best and coolest) @arthurfontzarelli and I’m super happy about that.
It is available on Github:
https://github.com/ECAL-Beyond-Bezier/StrokeScribbler-roboFontExt
Finally online: Beyond Bézier, the research projects my dear colleagues and I undertook at Écal, where we thought about type design beyond making products that use Bézier outlines. Video lectures by Matthieu Cortat, @alicesavoie, Radim Peško, Florence Yerly, Micha Wasem and myself, as well as lots of nice bonus content.
The recording, along with others of his favorite performances, was released as the “Birthday Tribute” compilation in 2010
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7994887--alfred-brendel-80th-birthday-tribute
Being exposed to Alfred Brendel, especially his playing and writing about Beethoven, was life-changing for me, sending me down a rabbit hole I have yet to emerge from.
I want you to listen to one piece: His performance of Op. 110 at the Salzburg festival in 2007, already well into his 70s, was transcedental. I used to joke that Schiff knows what it is about, that Uchida feels what it is about, but that Brendel has lived it himself in both its humor and its tragedy.
He will be missed dearly.
Maurice Meilleur
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