Prototypo: the font generator [video]

by co_pl_te • 13 years ago

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iliaznk• 13 years ago

The twitter logo is outdated.

cduan• 13 years ago

This will inevitably draw comparisons to Knuth's METAFONT and Computer Modern font family (as it should). It does suggest, to me, one particularly interesting use case: one could automatically measure parameters for an existing font, and generate similar-looking characters that might be missing from the font (e.g., small caps, Greek letters, Cyrillic, etc.). I programmed this once many years ago, using some ridiculously complicated PostScript and METAFONT programming, but I've since forgotten how that old code works.

andyhmltn• 13 years ago

I really wish people would add arrows to scrolling sites like this. Just a simple one at the bottom of the landing screen to indicate that you are meant to scroll. I had no idea what I was waiting for when I landed on that page and I started scrolling as it faded white so I assumed (maybe the title of this post?) it was a video.

Prototypo: the font generator [video]

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