Datatype is a new OpenType font that allows you to create charts based on text expressions.

Unlike Chartwell, it is a variable font. It (currently) offers three chart types and handles pie charts slightly differently than Chartwell. I think it’s an interesting approach.

Datatype is open source under the SIL Open Font License. Designed by Frank Tisellano.
https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/ #InDesign #charts #variableFont

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

By day, he is mild mannered graphic designer Andy Kern. By night, he becomes…

…The Ascender.

Typographical superhero with the power to tell Arial from Helvetica at a glance. Wherever keming is seen, he will be there to fix it.

This week: dateline with fear, as deep in his lair evil super genius Lord Papyrus plans his next assault on the world. #SuperHero

Pejac, “Art in Veins” (2025)

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-paper-graphite-drawings/

#art

Updated Talmudifier. It (finally) supports multiple languages, including Hebrew!

https://crates.io/crates/talmudifier

#rust #jewish #talmud #latex

A little haskell command-line script to calculate good, small rational approximations of real numbers. Eg: approximating 0.13 yields 1/7 ≈ 0.1429, 1/8 = .125, 3/23 ≈ 0.1304, 13/100 = 0.13 in that order. Useful more often than I expected. Uses continued fractions (default) or Farey sequences (generates more approximations / converges more slowly).

https://gist.github.com/rntz/6713db2a10ae51bdb6c0d232640eb5e4

Introducing Colr Pak - a free open source editor for COLR v0 and v1 fonts

Color Pak is a cross-platform desktop application for designing and editing color fonts. It is a fork of Fontra Pak, extended with dedicated tooling for COLRv0 and COLRv1 color font authoring — including a visual paint graph editor, palette management, and gradient handles directly on the canvas.

Your fonts stay entirely on your computer and are never uploaded anywhere

Key Features

• COLRv1 Paint Graph Editor — visually compose  PaintSolid, PaintLinearGradient, PaintRadialGradient, PaintSweepGradient, PaintGlyph, PaintTranslate, PaintScale, PaintRotate, PaintSkew, and PaintTransform nodes per glyph.
• COLRv0 Layer Mapping — manage color layer stacks with palette index assignments for simpler color fonts.
• One-click COLRv0 → COLRv1 Upgrade — automatically convert an existing v0 layer mapping into an equivalent COLRv1 PaintColrLayers structure.
• Masterless COLRv1 Variation (WIP) — author variable color parameters (gradient stops, transform values, alpha) as independent per-axis keyframes, without requiring separate outline masters.
• Live Canvas Rendering — see COLRv1 paint effects rendered in real time on the glyph canvas as you edit.
• Palette Management — define and switch between multiple color palettes; the active palette is reflected immediately in the canvas preview.
• Full Fontra Editing Core — all standard Fontra editing features (glyph drawing, variable font axes, anchors, components, etc.) are included.