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Tag: font

  • my name, like transit

    scruss

  • yay, yay, IPA!

    Something has just changed on my Gentoo boxes; I can now display Unicode characters properly. John Wells’s International Phonetic Alphabet in Unicode now displays as it should.

    Now there’s nothing stopping me making weak pronunciation-related puns like “… to /Éš/ is human …”

  • Just like on the old Amstrad CPC

    For no really well defined reason, I used to spend hours designing really tiny bitmap fonts on my old Amstrad CPC. Now it seems that Jason Kottke has done the same thing, but in truetype format:

    silkscreen, in fontforge

    Silkscreen     reminds me of the HP49g‘s system fonts. You used to be able to get one of those in a scaleable form, so I wonder how similar it looks.

    I’m not sure if Jason’s copyright warning would work very well:

    This font is free for personal and corporate use and may be redistributed in this unmodified form on your Web site. I would ask that you not modify and then redistribute this font…although you may modify it for your own
    personal use.

    Back in my pre-press days, I discovered that a font becomes your design if you trivially modify just 5 glyphs. It’s an artefact of the early type producers lobbying to be able to rip each other off … not something that happens much in these DRM-obsessed days.