| Formerly of | LWN, Linux.com, OSTG |
| Currently of | Type design research |
| Texas | Linux Fest |
| Just interested in, you know, in, | uh, Principles of Modern Banking and, History of Piracy. Paintings of Orozco. Modern French Theater. The... Jurisprudential Factor of Mafia Administration. Diseases of Horses and novels of Joyce Cary and... Ethnic Choices of the Arabs. Thing |
@chergert BTW, if you decide to spend your time in France becoming a type designer, LMK. Several good programs are available in the region; I might could put you in touch with folks.
Not saying it'll help with the homophones directly, but it does take up a lot of one's time.
Marwari αΈa is an outlier in the Devanagari script, having its stem connection to the head stroke on the left rather than on the right or centered. Tiro Devanagari currently positions reph and vowel marks as shown in the top row, optically above the right side of the letter, which corresponds to the typical location on other lettersβ stem, and avoids vowel signs colliding with above line marks and shapes of preceding letters. [Other fonts do likewise, but maybe theyβre copying what I did.]
Wondering if the positioning in the second row might be appropriate, and whether anyone has examples from earlier print or manuscript to support either positioning?
Question for any friends who are cosplay nerds: do you know what this foam is called?
It's fairly robust/solid, compared to the squishier stuff I've seen in, say, craft sheets.
The pic is from a cellphone screen-protector package; I'm interested in making a similar frame for post-it notes, but it's super hard to find names of raw materials in these modern web times.
(In gratitude, if you know I promise not to mock cosplay nerdery for 24 solid hours, which I assume would be a lifetime record.)
Hmm. I'm only interested in 97% of the aspects of type and typography so I guess this one's not for me.
Attached: 1 image The sixth Fontstand Conference is now open for registration! Join us in Berlin, π©πͺ April 10-11, for the annual get-together of people interested in all aspects of type and typography. #fontstandcon2026 https://fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com
Today's FontForge shout-out π’ goes to Skef, one of the long-term maintainers. He did an enormous amount of work to clean up the codebase for C++ compatibility and made the Python module importable by the standard Windows Python installation.
No screenshots today, but trust me, it was a really huge project.
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5750
Interesting: Mozilla has a Firefox OS job-opening posted ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7378252/ ) so, great news: my homemade time machine works!
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Oh, wait; that's just bad phrasing on the part of the folks making the job listing.
I have been personally assured that, just to be absolutely certain, Mozilla management dug up the Firefox OS source code behind the barn and shot it full of a bunch of new holes. #CantBeTooCarefulCanWe
Considering the audience of this network, I suppose I need to explicitly point out that the preceding post was _sarcasm_, and that I'm seeing just as much of the content here as I would on literally any other platform.
That's the point. The point is that they're not different in reality, You can tell yourself they are, but you're wrong, and giant sudden news stories reveal that to everybody, so you should stop telling the general public that The Fediverse is a flowering, sunny, green utopia.
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