Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by Etheryte » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #2

You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…

This is the only thing I noticed before quickly closing the page. Completely unreadable.

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by pieterp » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 1:27 PM UTC

The jargon in the type world is a tad different from what's being used here, it bothers me immensely. E.g. a font (file, lead type, etc.) and a typeface (design) are two different things. Type design and typography aren't synonymous either.

I know it's an experiment but I doubt it's likely that the EULA states that the fonts can be manipulated, e.g. you need written consent of Grilli Type if you wish to do this. I'm unaware of the policy in other foundries.

Neat experiment but I don't really see a use for this.

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by MrZeus » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

leviathan wrote: post #8

Heads up for anyone on limited bandwidth: The page loads over 25Mb of javascript in order to display anything.

Wow. Indeed. 44.2 MB for the whole page!

The morphing-letters demo is kinda cool though :-)

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by grif-fin » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 3:18 PM UTC

This is good job. Having the ability to customize a font under the control of keeping it in the valid readable manifold.

Has Adobe discovered this? I be happy having this feature in Photoshop.

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by aab0 » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

MrZeus wrote: post #13

leviathan wrote: post #8

Heads up for anyone on limited bandwidth: The page loads over 25Mb of javascript in order to display anything.

Wow. Indeed. 44.2 MB for the whole page! The morphing-letters demo is kinda cool though :-)

Yeah. Looks like their two dimensions correspond, left-right to serif vs sans-serif, and up-down some sort of bold/italic dimension?

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by Stratoscope » Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

rawTruthHurts wrote: post #5

Stratoscope wrote: post #2

You would think that a web page about fonts would at least make a halfhearted attempt to use fonts that are somewhat readable. I know we're not supposed to nitpick about formatting details and instead comment on the message itself. But when a page is about fonts , I think its choice of fonts is fair game. :-) I tried to read the page in Chrome and Firefox on my Galaxy Note 4, and on desktop Chrome and Edge. It's bare…

It's not an article about fonts. It's an interactive experiment on typography.

Hopefully I can be forgiven for thinking the article had something to do with fonts, considering that the word appears in the title as well as 22 times in the body. :-)

Re: Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)

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Post by rawTruthHurts » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:41 AM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #16

rawTruthHurts wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an article about fonts. It's an interactive experiment on typography.

Hopefully I can be forgiven for thinking the article had something to do with fonts, considering that the word appears in the title as well as 22 times in the body. :-)

And I hope to be forgiven too for my poor wording, since I meant font readability :/