Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
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Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#2> All signatures by specially programmed robot-arm will be written and published in the unitary book.
No, not all of them.
Yours sincerly Anal Avenger
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#3In 2 days Lithuania will celebrate 100 years of independence (apart from a 50 year intermission of Soviet occupation).
The release of this font is connected to the celebration.
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#4Unfortunately, the license permits the use of the font only for "non-commercial" purposes, which means that it cannot be included in Free Software distributions.
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#5Su vasario 16, Lietuva
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#6I'm curious about this -
> While typing, you will notice that it is a much more sophisticated handwritten font than others. Spaces between words will not be perfectly identical, and the same two words when typed next to each will not look the same either, thus giving an impression that the text is actually written by hand.
How is this accomplished? I assume there's a ligature for spaces depending on the preceding character - but how does one randomise the ligatures between pairs of characters?
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#7Unfortunately, the license permits the use of the font only for "non-commercial" purposes, which means that it cannot be included in Free Software distributions.
Non-commercial licenses are IMO seriously wrongheaded. It's hardly a unique problem here. See also Creative Commons which spent something like a decade trying to define what the term meant and then ended up pretty much punting when it came time for 4.0.
Even leaving aside philosophical free software issues, the practicalities are considerable. A term (as in this license) such as "not aimed at direct or indirect financial gain" could be read as ruling out pretty much any non-trivial public use given how many things are indirectly monetized in various ways today.
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#8This font is pure digital poetry.
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#9> All signatures by specially programmed robot-arm will be written and published in the unitary book.
Cool
Re: Signato – A new font inspired by the Independence of Lithuania
#10I'm curious about this - > While typing, you will notice that it is a much more sophisticated handwritten font than others. Spaces between words will not be perfectly identical, and the same two words when typed next to each will not look the same either, thus giving an impression that the text is actually written by hand. How is this accomplished? I assume there's a ligature for spaces depending on the preceding cha…
However they do it, it repeats deterministically. Every third character in a repeated string is the same. If you paste "EEE| |EoEoEoEo| |EoiEoiEoi|" into the box and note the changes to the 'E' you should observe the way the E is dependent on the previous characters, but only for a certain distance. I assume this is a ligature-like feature but I don't know enough about fonts to say any more.