Ah, I've found my new terminal font: https://building-m.net/xbackbone/jOGE6/sUGEqePe74/raw.png
Which terminal are you using that supports variable length fonts this well?
A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
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Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#102Ah, I've found my new terminal font: https://building-m.net/xbackbone/jOGE6/sUGEqePe74/raw.png
That’s beautiful. A monotype version would be something to see.
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#103Sadly it is no longer commercially available after he died of a heart attack at the age of 41 in 2005 If it's an exacting replica of a preexisting typeface it shouldn't be covered under copyright and thus you should be able to freely share it.
A typeface is not a copyright protected work in the United States of America at the time that I wrote this [0]. However, files that font rendering programs can use to display typeface glyphs are protected works [1]. [0] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf "Works Not Protected by Copyright" page 3, section 2 ; though, it does call out limited protections for heavily ornamented calligraphy and the like [1] https…
Is it not trivial to create font files from images of the characters?
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#104Ah, I've found my new terminal font: https://building-m.net/xbackbone/jOGE6/sUGEqePe74/raw.png
It reminds me of my old Sun workstation at Glasgow University sigh
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#105This is the kind single minded, damn everyone's opinions, deep dive into madness I can get behind.
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#106I tried a similar approach but via CSS for my "medieval content farm" ( https://tidings.potato.horse ), but for perf. reasons ended up only randomising the opacity and tint of its individual characters and removed the transforms. My next step is to add those little padded areas hiding the empty spaces on the right side of the text[1][2], so the column of the text feels neater (horror vacui was a big thing then it see…
Great site and I just love that domain name.
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#107Looks good and the anachronistic feel lends a gravity to the dissertation you just don’t get with thin modern fonts.
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#108I tried a similar approach but via CSS for my "medieval content farm" ( https://tidings.potato.horse ), but for perf. reasons ended up only randomising the opacity and tint of its individual characters and removed the transforms. My next step is to add those little padded areas hiding the empty spaces on the right side of the text[1][2], so the column of the text feels neater (horror vacui was a big thing then it see…
If you haven't yet, you should play Pentiment. It's set in the early 1500s as the printing press is spreading across Europe, and each character's dialog text reflects how they would write (or print, for the people who operate presses). The text rendering is truly beautifully done, the ink dries a few moments after the text is written out and everything. I've been hoping for a technical blog on their text rendering techniques but haven't seen one yet.
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#109I tried a similar approach but via CSS for my "medieval content farm" ( https://tidings.potato.horse ), but for perf. reasons ended up only randomising the opacity and tint of its individual characters and removed the transforms. My next step is to add those little padded areas hiding the empty spaces on the right side of the text[1][2], so the column of the text feels neater (horror vacui was a big thing then it see…
Great site and I just love that domain name.
thanks, still thinking about changing my main email address to hay@potato.horse
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#110I tried a similar approach but via CSS for my "medieval content farm" ( https://tidings.potato.horse ), but for perf. reasons ended up only randomising the opacity and tint of its individual characters and removed the transforms. My next step is to add those little padded areas hiding the empty spaces on the right side of the text[1][2], so the column of the text feels neater (horror vacui was a big thing then it see…
If you haven't yet, you should play Pentiment. It's set in the early 1500s as the printing press is spreading across Europe, and each character's dialog text reflects how they would write (or print, for the people who operate presses). The text rendering is truly beautifully done, the ink dries a few moments after the text is written out and everything. I've been hoping for a technical blog on their text rendering te…
Sweet, thanks for the recommendation, I'm a sucker for little details like these.
Something tells me you might like Inkulinati: https://store.steampowered.com/app/957960/Inkulinati/