Laurence Penney

@lorp@typo.social
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Font hacker. I made Axis-Praxis and Samsa, and am helping to get the OpenType enhancements avar2 and COLRv1 off the ground. I co-produced MyFonts and FauxFoundry, and currently co-organize Letter Luvvers. I like trains, cars, book cataloguing, one-dimensional maps and Claudius Ptolemy.
webhttps://www.lorp.org
GitHubhttps://github.com/Lorp
Letter Luvvershttps://www.instagram.com/letterluvvers/
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Show threadLaurence Penney14h ago
@letterror @vasilis @letterror @vasilis sounds cool, pinging @elliotjaystocks and @oliverlindberg (of @pixelpioneers fame)
Laurence PenneyMar 1
ANRTFeb 28

šŸŸ£ automatic type design 3 šŸŸ¢
The videos from two and a half days of symposium are available online šŸ”µ

https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr/colloques/automatic-type-design-3

Automatic Type Design 3

Automatic Type Design 3 ā€“ Digital Typography Yesterday And Tomorrow. Automatic Type Design is an occasional symposium focused on digital font technologies, from design to production.

Show threadLaurence PenneyFeb 17
@stevenfeldman @Edent sure, send it over (will dm)
Show threadLaurence PenneyJan 28
@grautesk @shadychars @underware @gabrowitsch may I suggest Mummy on a Bed (š“€, U+13040), maybe also Feather of Maā€™at (š“†„, U+13184), against which your heart is weighed after death
Laurence PenneyJan 25
Show threadDan BurzoJan 25

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!

[css-fonts] Proposal to extend CSS font-optical-sizing Ā· Issue #4430 Ā· w3c/csswg-drafts

Introduction This proposal extends the CSS Fonts Module Level 4 font-optical-sizing property by allowing numerical values to express the ratio of CSS px units to the the units used in the opsz Open...

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Show threadLaurence PenneyJan 25
@litherum @TiroTypeworks @db @xotypeco right, and I think when @TiroTypeworks says ā€œbut getting browser makers to do it properly had been frustratingā€, he assigns himself the responsibility of saying what ā€œproperlyā€ is, in very technical terms, bearing in mind the unknowability of final realworld output size. IMO that is not possible in general, and the single workable solution is Appleā€™s reasonable default with overrides via CSS, perhaps in ways suggested in the megathread.
Laurence PenneyDec 16, 2024
Steven FeldmanDec 16, 2024

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

Laurence PenneyDec 15, 2024
@eWalthert @letterror @jenskutilek @sajatype itā€™s a joke based on extrapolating from efficiency improvements when rewriting Python font processing libraries in Rust and JSā€¦ I assume and hope that heavy numeric code in Python doesnā€™t suffer the same lags :)
Show threadLaurence PenneyDec 15, 2024
@letterror @jenskutilek @eWalthert I initially thought this was a comment on Guido getting an energy bill for worldwide Python use ;)
Show threadLaurence PenneyDec 15, 2024
@justvanrossum @letterror avar2 allows you to choose whether the non-existent instance at bottom left maps upwards (to the master at top left) or to the right (to the existing bottomleftmost master)