Just van Rossum

justvanrossum@typo.social

I used to make fonts. I still do, but I used to, too.I made the "You wouldn't download a car" font.I develop font-related software and I teach.

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Post #4147978
From the internet
Post #2864834
RE: https://mastodon.social/@elgringomexicano/116606995788338964 I initially read that as “well-spaced”.
Post #2864833
@eWalthert your shipment is ready
Post #1702484
If you&#39;re at #ATypI: we will be talking about our browser-based font editor #Fontra on Friday, from 12:00 until 12:30 in Salle 108. Perhaps there will be some stickers left! #BlackFoundry
Post #1702482
As of this week, Fontra can apply edits across all sources (or a manually picked subset). Tweak your whole designspace with a single edit!
Post #1702481
📢 Fontra Live Demo: Save the date! This Friday 27 September at 10am CEST https://meet.google.com/xzn-grna-sxx New Tools New Features New Panels New Sidebars New Visualizations … Looking forward to see you there!
Post #1674000
Good news everybody! People rather pay money for fascism-aligned tech and boil the oceans than to learn the tiniest amount of coding!
Post #1508535
Sooo, we started a Fontra Blog: https://blog.fontra.xyz/ The first post is a bit of a recap / state of Fontra summary. Future posts will be about features and ongoing development.
Post #1508533
New Fontra blog post: https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/font-overview/
Post #1454867
FontGoggles 1.7.0 is out! It adds support for DesignSpace 5 and fixes a few COLRv1 bugs. https://github.com/justvanrossum/fontgoggles/releases
Post #1319961
Does anyone perhaps have a set of working glyph names for the Tulu-Tigalari script that they&#39;re willing to share? Unicode range 11380–113FF.
Post #1010788
Who gets to design Arabic typography? https://futuress.org/stories/arabic-typography/amp/
Post #943099
Today, in Things You Can Do With Fontra Pak, featuring @letterror&#39;s LTR Very Bauble: - Drop variable TTF onto app - View glyph set - Explore designspace - Use filter to find some glyphs - Select glyphs, double-click or hit enter - Explore designspace with glyphs - View outline / points / topology while navigating designspace #fontra
Post #907639
Using ChatGPT is like driving a Tesla. I said what I said.
Post #857676
Font developers, I have a question about glyph names. In your view, what is the meaning of the term &quot;production name&quot;? The term is obviously flawed, hence this poll, but it is used commonly enough that surely there must be a consensus? Please boost.
Post #850995
Ceramic Voronoi? Old shop lettering in Delft.
Post #143180
I can finally share a thing I did for @typotheque@typo.social: an interactive visualization to explore their Zed Display variable font: https://www.typotheque.com/blog/a-typeface-in-four-dimensions