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And whose fault is that?
At last, a meaningful use of AI
Incredible how, this whole time, the solution to these italics was just +10% side bearings.
Two months of headaches solved in one minute.
Is AI a form of accumulation by dispossession? Writers, journalists, designers, and artists have laboured for centuries to produce the material used to train an AI. Now we have to pay if we want to use it.
@reichenstein @klim as a non-native english speaker, I must say GPT is a handy proofreader indeed. Prompts like "improve writing of this text" have produced rather good results.
@justvanrossum @onpaperwings same, with the exception of old style figures sometimes also

Kerning digits? The following string contains all digit pairs without duplicates:

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#kerning #TypeDesign

We are excited to announce the publication of Mary Dysonโ€™s book

๐Ÿ“” Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading

in a new, digital edition, in English and Spanish.

๐Ÿš€ https://legible-typography.com

One cannot overstate the importance of its publication online. I believe it will have a profound impact on web typography and typographic discourse online, but it would be just as fine if you find it useful for your thinking, practice, or research.

Legibility

Understanding the important role of typography in reading is a key subject that designers should know and learn about. Design for reading is an enormous responsibility that we should face and resolve correctly. In these pages you will find an explanation of how one reads, the movement of our eyes when we read, how we recognize words. You will find excellent material of a diverse nature and complexity that will help understand the basic princi- ples of typography, wrong ideas and practices that are common in the profession, and advanced concepts of reading on the screen supported by scientific research. The mastery detail of how to regard type is fully developed by Mary C. Dyson who has devoted her academic life to searching for answers and convey designers of her findings.

Every once in a while a top-notch observation disguised as a meme comes around, and I think this is one.