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🟣 automatic type design 3 🟢
The videos from two and a half days of symposium are available online 🔵
https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr/colloques/automatic-type-design-3
As a way out of the impasse, @lorp proposes that `font-optical-sizing` should accept a `<number>` that should control the pixel to opsz ratio, for web authors / users to choose what works best. Which sounds very good to me.
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4430
Fin. Hope I got the details right!
Went to see "The Truth About Harry Beck" at the Cubic Theatre (London Transport Museum) yesterday.
Brilliant. Even if you think you know about Beck and his "Diagram" you will learn and laugh in this charming performance.
Performances until 5th January
A crucial thing #ATypI members do yearly is to elect new folks to the ATypI Board. Our volunteer board represents the type community and is entrusted with NPO mission oversight and ensuring ATypI has the resources it needs.
ATypI members running for 3-year terms are: 🇯🇵 Min-Young Kim, 🇬🇧 Xunchang Cheng, 🇧🇪 Ann Bessemans, 🇺🇸 Lucas Czarnecki, and 🇲🇽 Leonardo Vázquez.
Dues-paying ATypI members in good standing are eligible to vote. 🗳️
Voting form + info: https://atypi.org/about-atypi/who-we-are/elections-2024-25-atypi-board-of-directors/
Log in to vote.
Voting is now open to elect the ATypI board of directors for this cycle. Nominations were held in August 2024. Five board seats are available in this election, all with terms beginning October 1, 2024. Each term is three years. Candidates are listed in no particular order. Click each person’s name to visit their candidate… Continue reading Elections 2024–25: ATypI board of directors
It's Friday, so time for a visit to the Geomob podcast archives.
Our recommendation for your weekend listening pleasure is @freyfogle's discussion with Laurence Penney @lorp about the world's oldest known geospatial database: Ptolemy's *Geography*. A fascinating look back at how it all started.
ATypI member Eric Liú has written daily reports about ATypI Brisbane for the Chinese community with Zhiqian Li, his team member on the TheType website. https://www.atypi.org/2024/04/24/brisbane_thetype_report/
“Thank you, Brisbane!” ATypI member Eric Liú has written daily reports about ATypI Brisbane with Zhiqian Li, his team member on the TheType website. We encourage you to use the translation features of your browser to read these highly informative reports of the presentations delivered at ATypI Brisbane: Founded in 2007 as “Type is Beautiful,”… Continue reading 感谢布里斯班！
Variable fonts have a proposed new mechanism, a version 2 update to the AVAR table, to allow variable fonts to fence off unusable portions of the designspace, and otherwise distort the mappings. About AVAR2: https://type.today/en/journal/avar
For the bleeding-edge font folks… @lorp has a new tool for experimentally testing and modifying variable font AVAR2 mappings with interactive live visual output. You can drag mappings around AND then export the modified font! Wow.
The FontShop website is now seemingly missing all of its fine historical articles, like this one by Ferdinand Ulrich on Geometric Sans Serifs... thank God for the @internetarchive.
If there's anything you would like to take note of on any of the other websites under MT control, save them to IA now. I don't have to tell you it's only a matter of time.
ANRT
Dan Burzo
Steven Feldman
ATypI
Geomob
Thomas Phinney, Font Detective
Colin M. Ford