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Improving stroke merging algorithm. Depending on the total count of the shapes, the stroke color changes between pink and yellow, for debugging reasons and also the animation helps to get a sense for what is actually happening :)

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Ink traps/Spikes • The new feature is an angle clamp (min/max) that allows corners to be selected generatively.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A screencast of an ongoing development for a little design app with parametric type. Now featuring a test run for kerning cushions. (More details and conversation regarding the parametric spacing/kerning approach you can find on my mastodon account if you are interested to dive deeper)

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A little upgrade in the rendering for stroke endings. Catching bugs. #parametrictype #typetool #typedesign #code #bugs

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Kerning cushion? Naive & provocative vision: If we could automate the spaces between all pairs of letters and completely ignore how fonts currently work across software, could we give up (left/right sidebearings) in the context of writing at all? Think of space as relative instead of absolute... 🚩

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I decided to finally upgrade my daily routine with a dishwasher. Should I get an energy efficiency B or save 25% for the same model energy efficiency D.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Current kerning implementation: The bubble shape currently struggles with edges and therefor keeps letter pairs like TA to far apart. Otherwise given the wild parametric nature, I am quite happy with a first attempt!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A first test to create a kerning bubble by offsetting evenly placed points on the outline with a binominal distribution along its normal axis, to determine the approximate kerning by making the letters bubbles touch.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to @christophknoth.bsky.social, who reminded me of Bubble Kern (tosche.net/non-fonts/bu...) which lead me to a first step to generate a very simplified polygon bubble around each character to get a better mathematical idea of letters distance to each other.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Each characters width controlled separately, independent but in alignment with the global width.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Playing around with a combination of stroke weight, spacing, slant and stroke extension of the curve segments, both horizontally and vertically.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Parametric spacing improved for slanted letters ✨

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Some updates to the algorithm preview. I am still struggling to find a good concept for the spacing of slanted letters. Currently including the angle in the profile calculation and using it as a reference for the offset. Any suggestions for research material related to spacing and slanted fonts?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

After changing 2 numbers in some vector intersection calculation, i was able to highly decrease render time. Now I get between 70–120 milliseconds for the basic latin uppercase, lowercase and figures for the basic algorithm on my old machine.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Just decreased total render time by a factor of 6. The slowest latin letter currently takes around 3.4 milliseconds on my 4 year old computer. Render time also fluctuates depending on parameter settings. More or less overlaps can be caused by the stroke weight for instance.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Alternatives for Instagram anyone?

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Recap on the filter side of things: Circles places a long skeleton, radius and offset controlled with noise, simplified implementation of metaballs, rearranging circles to an invisible grid. #parametrictype #typedesign #typography #code

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Left/Right negative space profile to determine automated spacing. New stuff coming up :)

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

A test run of wip rounded corner algo on parametric type

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Working on the rounded corners module. Appart from smoothing out some edges, the next step will be to clamp rounding in relation to neighbouring corners to aboid overlaps.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I have (again) roughly implemented a new letter building algorithm. I will also be giving a demo and a workshop at Automatic Type Design 3 in Nancy, France next month, so it will be a great to put it to a test! #parametrictype #typedesign #typography #parametric #code #programing #math

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

A little teaser from the preview interface for working on the algorithm-specific code. #parametrictype #typetool #typedesign #code #wip #algorithmic #javascript

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Another attempt on getting the letter ‚S‘ to work in parametric fashion, with user control over customised terminal cutting, control over S-curve mid segment extension and angle, roundness of curve, stroke-weight, character-width, etc. Main Challenge: precision with bezier curves!

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

I am currently stress testing my bezier intersection algorithm and the search algorithm traveling along the intersections. I need it to be highly adjustable depending on the situation: preview = fast, export = accurate. As usually you can't have both: fast = not accurate, accurate = not fast.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been exploring parametric type in a layout interface where you can freely move words, apply styles, and tweak fonts anytime. #parametrictype #typedesign #type #graphicdesign #tools #software

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment