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  • Pirate Party / Pirate Identity 

    Found via Raphael Bastide:

    Visual identity by Samuel Rivers-Moore for the Pirate Party, using Terminal Grotesque by Raphael Bastide.

    Animated logo, built using PureData.

    Animated logo, built using PureData.

    Poster designed using a Processing script.

    Poster designed using a Processing script.

    A Processing script designed to set up posters very quickly and easily. The program automatically lays out the text typed by the user, adjusting each line to fit the poster’s width. The result is kind of rough, urgent, giving some spontaneity to political communication.

    Poster designed using a Processing script.

    Poster designed using a Processing script.

    Poster designed using a Processing script, that randomly and automatically  uses twitter content.

    Poster designed using a Processing script, that randomly and automatically uses twitter content.

    More information:
    http://www.samuelriversmoore.net/#PPPI-introduction

     
    • Samuel writes:

      merci beaucoup pour l’intérêt (…) je suis très flatté, et tout à fait partant pour contribuer à cette édition.
      Je voulais venir au LGM de Leipzig cette année mais je n’ai finalement pas pu. Ça fait deux fois que je le loupe. La prochaine fois je serais là, promis.

      Par rapport au projet Easy Poster (nom plus ou moins « par défaut » ), comme tu as du le voir, c’est un prototype d’outil permettant de mettre en page facilement et rapidement une affiche.
      Les paramètres sont très simples : le corps du texte de chaque ligne varie automatiquement pour que la longueur de la ligne s’adapte à la largeur de l’affiche; et un retour à la ligne permet de créer une nouvelle ligne de texte.
      L’idée de départ était d’expérimenter autour d’un outil qui pourrait être utilisé par des militants sans grandes connaissances en graphisme pour mettre en page des affiches ayant un maximum d’impact en un minimum de temps. Ça permet aussi de faire de l’Ascii Art un peu bizarre. Il y a quelque chose d’assez brut qui m’a ensuite fait pensé à la spontanéité de Twitter (on peut en quelque sorte considérer cet outil comme la version papier de twitter). C’est pour ça que j’ai décliné le principe pour mettre en page des tweets automatiquement (en rajoutant aléatoirement des retours à la ligne) sélectionnés en fonction de mots clefs liés au parti pirate. (cf : http://www.samuelriversmoore.net/#PPPI-twitterposters )

      (…)

      Les sources de mon projet sont disponibles depuis peu sur Gihub : https://github.com/SamuelRiversMoore

  • Proposal from Martin Eschoyez 

    Proposals (graphical work) received from Martin Eschoyez, Argentina.

    Me. A triangulated version of myself. inkscape + GIMP.

    Me.
    A triangulated version of myself.
    inkscape + GIMP.

    More on Flickr:
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/martineschoyez/sets/

    Martin writes:

    I’ve wrote some tutorials for GIMP magazine, i illustrate the covers of an Argentinean Linux magazine, and i’m animation teacher (of course with Open Source tools) in some universities here. I always try to collaborate and teach what i’ve learned, and being a little part of such great communities as yours always made my day, and encourages me to kep on going.

    See also some of his animation works here:
    http://www.vacuispacii.org/

     
  • Production schedule for issue 2.3 

    here’s a proposed schedule for the work on issue 2.3:

    • end of april: asking contributors for the state of their drafts, so we can estimate the amount of texts and images
    • 11 may: receiving final texts and contributions (texts, images)
    • 12-23 may: re-reading, proofing, correcting
    • 19-23 may: starting layout work
    • (26-30 may: week off, A+R at ODLC Paris)
    • 2-8 june: a week of intensive layout work
    • 9 june: send to printer \o/

    how does that sound?

     
    • gingercoons on IRC:

      “both the editing and layout phases in that timeline seem a little short. you’d have to check with A&R on how long it normally takes them to do layout, but I can at least say that doing full edits on an entire magazine of texts takes closer to two weeks than to one”

    • From Ana:

      “I would propose that we change the date for receiving texts and
      contributions from the 18th of May to the 11th of May.
      ginger what do you think about this?

      This change will also allow us to start the layout before 26-30 may.
      That’s convenient because me and Ricardo will be off during that week.
      We’ll be participating in the Open Data Legislative Camp in Paris so
      it’s best not to count with us during that time.”

  • another parametric design tool 

    Also of interest:

    prototypo

    A parameter-based font generator.
    License: GNU Affero General Public License
    Infos: http://www.prototypo.io/
    Source: https://github.com/byte-foundry/prototypo

    opentype.js

    A JavaScript parser for TrueType and OpenType fonts.
    A canvas library for displaying fonts.
    License: MIT License
    Infos: http://nodebox.github.io/opentype.js/
    Source: https://github.com/nodebox/opentype.js


    and one of the revelations from LGM14:

    Metapolator

    A web-based parametric font editor.
    License: GNU GPL v3
    Infos: http://metapolator.com/
    Source: https://github.com/metapolator/metapolator

     
  • State of the Table of Contents, April 6th 

    After a work session on the ICE leaving Leipzig, here’s a current list of possible material (to follow up):

    Confirmed contributions

    • Julien Deswaef: Computational fonts for the web – on obscure webfont methods without webfonts
    • Frank Adebiaye has sent several proposals:
      • a) Atlas of type foundries (could be a poster!)
      • b) Essay – yes! with examples of fonts (not only VTF ones)
    • Loraine Furter : “gorgeous libre fonts that you (probably) never heard about”.

    Unconfirmed contributions

    Listed in random order:

    • Pippin:
      • a) on Kernagic (semi-automatic tool for spacing fonts, began at LGM 2013)
      • b) The 0xA000 font family and the modular font editor – for showcase, with images
    • Alexei Vanyashin – subject matter to be defined (libre type in the cyrillic world? adding cyrillic to a latin font?)
    • Nathan Willis – possible topic: undone / unfinished type projects
    • Eric Schrijver – something regarding the experimental Etherpad project and the browser-to-print CSS hacks by OSP.
    • Sol Matas – the argentinian libre type scene – history, background, …
    • Juraj Sukop (maker of flat/even): typism, a type design tool
    • Simon Egli – on Metapolator (talked only to Nicolas, must contact #ASAP). this could be an article that also places Metapolator in the context of metafont and previous interpolation tools (Erik van Blokland’s Superpolator, Pablo Impallari’s Simplepolator…)
    • Dave Crossland – not defined or confirmed yet (contact #ASAP). possible contributions:
      • visual: a graphic map of the libre software infrastructure (similar to the scribbling on napkin and drawing board)?
      • on the upcoming indic fonts project?
      • also: the new OFL, font bakery

    Visual showcase

    Possible contributions

    • GlitchText artwork by Benjamin Berg
    • Pippin’s 0xA000 font + editor, see above
    • Screenless Office, presented by Brendan Howell at LGM 2014
    • map of libre foundries, proposed by F. Adebiaye, see above

    An overview of Libre Type Design Software

    Could be a special feature, on 2 or 4 pages, presented as a sort of graphic schematic (close to Dave’s drawing).

    • ttfautohint
    • Kernagic
    • Font Bakery (font compiler + checker)
    • fontforge

    Other possibilities

    • Chris Lilley: Colored Glyphs in OTF (pushing libre software to implement this!)
    • The League of Moveable Type
    • Victor Gaultney (SIL): on collaborative projects (topic of his ATypI 2013 presentation)
    • Eben Sorkin
    • Vernon Adams
    • Ale Rimoldi: on Impagina, editorial workflows.

    For “Small and Useful”

    For “Notebook”

    • what happened at LGM
    • ask Gijs ?
    • ask Myriam Cea ?
     
  • Posted in the WordPress forums about the CSS fixes applied to this P2 child theme: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/h4-holding-post-metadata-needs-css-class

     
  • brick 

    Another candidate for new releases (or small & useful) : https://github.com/alfredxing/brick & http://brick.im/
    “Webfonts that actually look good”

     
  • ttfautohint 1.0 

    Proposal for new releases (someone added this to the wiki):

    ttfautohint 1.0
    released 22nd March 2014

    Info: http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/

    ttfautohint’s goal is a 99% automated hinting process for web fonts, acting as a platform for finely hand-tuned hinting.

     
  • Glitch Text Generator and Text Art Canvas 

    Hello. You may be interested in covering my Glitch Text Generator and Text Art Canvas for your next issue. It’s a web app for creating various types of text art using Unicode. It has a few interesting features:

    • Quickly create “glitch text” (g̸̨͉̥̭̿̍l̩̳ͤ᷄̾̅̀ị̴̿̅̆᷈ͯt͉̣̒̾ͭ̊͗c͕̦̉᷾ͦ͞ͅh̜̪ͩ̂̑᷆͜ ̭̩̭᷈̀͏̕t̫̣̝̝̽̀̓ė̦͍̰᷊͗᷆x̵͔͍᷆ͫ̚͟t̸̷̴̹̓̂͟) using combining diacritical marks. Many of these are stackable to get interesting aesthetic effects, or even cause browser bugs or other unexpected behavior.
    • Quickly generate dozens of other types of text — shapes, dingbats, Arabic, Katakana, Braille… just to name a few.
    • Formatting tools for making your text look pretty.
    • Download the JavaScript and include it in your own project.

    The tool and its documentation are here:
    http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/

    glitch-text-generator

    There is also a tumblr of artwork creating using the tool here:
    http://glitchtext.tumblr.com/

    Most of the work on the tumblr is by me (Benjamin Berg, aka stAllio!), unless otherwise noted.

    I am of course happy to answer any questions.

     
  • Computational fonts for the web 

    Hello ginger, Ana, Ricardo and Manuel.

    Here is a subject, in form of a story, which could be turned into a proposition of some kind.

    I started to get interested in fonts for the web, before the @font-face specification. As you remember, we didn’t have much choice. Either, we had to guess the fonts the user would have (which would be 90% windows defaults). Or use php-gd on-the-fly srever-side baked images or some flash app as a way to display more fancy fonts for blog titles mainly.

    Anyway, because I can’t do things like everyone and because I didn’t want to send baked-images nor use flash for my website, I tried rendering fonts, in javascript, in the browser. You must also know that there was no <canvas> tag available at that time either.

    So I used some cryptic js library that would draw in the browser using only absolute divs. I also created my own parametric font, where each gliph would be a single closed shaped polygon. And I used (and still use) it for my logo and the titles of my website http://xuv.be.

    Here’s an example of the font with 3 weights.
    http://xuv.be/static/xuvfont/typo.html

    xuvfont

    I never (took the time to) release(d) that font. But I thought about it and thought about porting it to other languages also (like processing for example).

    Anyway. This got me interested in other projects like this. And I found 2 of some sort.

    One is the Curtis CSS typeface by Dave Desandro
    http://desandro.github.io/curtis-css-typeface/
    (A pure html-css only typeface)

    curtis-css-typeface

    The other is the 1kJS experiment http://www.claudiocc.com/the-1k-notebook-part-i/ (By Claudio CC ?)

    1k-vector-font

    So, my proposition could be to write about these weird web type face experiments and try to find some more relevant work around these ideas. (So the criteria here would be not to use a font file as a source, but just html-css-js).

    Or another proposition could be that I talk about my font project and release the xuv-font in different languages.

    Or also could be just images of these 3 projects in some sort of quick and weird showcase section.

    Tell me what you think about this.
    And if you found this interesting, I can start cooking ;)

     
    • Hi Julien,

      Thanks for those proposals, I like them a lot! Very much in line with what we are planning.

      I think the most awesome would be to write on the background of the xuvfont experiment, and those other “pure web typeface” hacks (didn’t know about those).

      This article could also briefly mention things like sIFR and Cufón – those ugly workarounds that are history now. But I love the idea of focussing on those deliberately experimental font works.

    • Hey Manuel.
      Glad you like it :)
      The sIFR thing is what I was talking about when I mentioned flash based font titles. I just didn’t remember it had an “official” name. Thanks for it. Here’s a link to the reference page: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/ (feels like dead media to me now this technology :) )

      And I had no idea what cufon was. Maybe vaguely in my “I have heard that” memory. But never investigated it. Interesting. Although I haven’t explored yet what it was. Seems recent though. Here’s what seems the reference: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

      • Actually I didn’t ever check how Cufon worked. It uses canvas and VML – a standard submitted to the W3C in 1998, that “has been largely deprecated in favor of other formats, such as SVG”. Looks like Cufon development started in 2008 and stopped in 2012.

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