Chocolate Letters at TypeMedia

TypeMedia 0708 students took lettering from The Hague and made foam models. These were vacuformed and use for chocolate casting. Many more pictures here. On display in November at the Royal Academy at the SML exhibition.
More chocolate typography from Donald Roos at VetteLetters.NL.

Superpolator2 Snapshots

Superpolator2 can save snapshots from designspace. I think these images can help to document and illustrate the construction of interpolating systems.

Notes from Norway

My brother recently moved to Norway and is blogging, have a look at his photos.

Makeboard, Python, OSC, Servo

Hurray, first contact with the Make Controller Board. Python, OSC, OSX, and a servo.

Penwork books in PDF

IAMPETH: "These books are no longer in print. Preserved in digital format, we offer them here in their entirety for current and future generations of calligraphers, penmen and pen artists."

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LettError RandomFonts in OpenType format

LettError classics Beowolf and BeoSans are getting ready for OpenType. The sources have been delivered to FSI FontShop International for mastering, and it's just a matter of time. Note: these fonts are not truely random as their type-3 PostScript forebears were. I know this is a conceptual dissappointment for some, but we've got to work with what we got. OpenType just does not allow us to move points around willy nilly and the rand feature is not supported anywhere. But OpenType does however, allow us to switch alternates around. Just van Rossum built a special production system which generates the random alternates, the substitution rules and the kern features. I only had to finish a couple of glyphs and pick the final nits. The Beo's contain 10 variations for each glyph and enough substitution glue to make your head spin. Over 85,000 glyphs total, a 10 hour production cycle. The good thing is the RandomFont esthetic can now be seen on screen. In color if you like. I can't believe it's not random!

Superpolator 2.0

Happy to announce Superpolator 2.0 I am. Now a OS X application, works with UFO font sources (so you need another editor), Superpolator lets you make complex interpolations simple and fast. Considerable time savings. Not a font editor. Glyphs must be compatible. A Cocoa app running powered by (amongst others) Python, PyObjc, RoboFab.

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