The InDesign plugin Ixta TypeUI is a pet project of @DirkBecker
Joined November 2014
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
17 Nov 2024
It took a while to build momentum, but the typo.social instance is now generating a steady stream of type, lettering and design related content. The community feed is so focused that I mostly don’t feel the need to follow individual members.
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
19 Sep 2022
Twelve years ago, a young type designer created a rudimentary font based on a photocopy of the Kangxi Dictionary. Within months, it was on everything from restaurant menus to propaganda posters.
sixthtone.com/news/1011200/h…
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
10 Jun 2022
Traditional Tatar literature is virtually inaccessible for modern Tatars for a similar reason. Till the 20th c we used to be a Persianate culture, so being "educated" implied a decent knowledge of Farsi (at least) and Arabic (ideally). You needed to be at least bilingual
10 Jun 2022
Nation-States destroyed the Mediterranean.
[Also note signs in French as the Jewish upper class used French]
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
31 May 2021
NEW: Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts bit.ly/3c6s5BE
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27 May 2021
So steuert man in InDesign mit Bordmitteln (Script) @opentype Zeichenvarianten an: x.com/IxtaTypeUI/status/6125…
21 Jun 2015
// This InDesign jsx activates cvXX:
app.selection[0].opentypeFeatures=[["cv" ("00" prompt("character variant","70")).slice(-2),1]];
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
14 Sep 2016
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
16 Jun 2016
Kanji Graphy my new #book on #japanese #writingsystem and japanese #typograpy is ready! instagram.com/p/BGtjgcJDJRa/
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4 Feb 2016
I just learned about the test font Nadezhda by @adamtwar. forums.adobe.com/message/846… Most features covered, probably missed a checkbox or two …
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5 Oct 2015
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IxtaTypeUI retweeted
16 Aug 2015
Would scripting InDesign with perl make sense?
forums.adobe.com/message/786…
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31 Jul 2015
x.com/dirkbecker/status/6271…
Here's the first screenshot of TypeUI running on Windows 7!
31 Jul 2015
Just reached a big milestone with my converter from #Xcode project to VisualStudio. First 3 InDesign CC.2014 plugins compile and run.
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10 Jul 2015
Just found that @TypeKit hides font data from @InDesign plugins, so I can't (yet) show ssXX names. Consider that when shopping for fonts ...
28 Jun 2015
Today I've added Mac CC and CC.2015 versions to the existing CS5, CS6 and CC.2014. Next step is Windows.
26 Jun 2015
cvXX has sampleTextNameId. What about other features? In a button panel (not yet) I’d pick a glyph named „POSTER“, fall back to first GSUB.
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24 Jun 2015
The #AdobeTypeUI petition also triggered some Open Source Software efforts. Interesting blog post by @peter_works x.com/peter_works/status/613…
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21 Jun 2015
// This InDesign jsx activates cvXX:
app.selection[0].opentypeFeatures=[["cv" ("00" prompt("character variant","70")).slice(-2),1]];
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20 Jun 2015
Skolar by @rosettatype has Stylistic Sets with names.
Some appear to be candidates for Character Variants...
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20 Jun 2015
InDesign's German translation for "Stylistic Sets" - "Formatsätze".
Hidden at 2nd level submenu.
20 Jun 2015
Character Variants with names, "Damma" applied and rendered by InDesign.
Some cvXX are filtered out due to lang=DEU.
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17 Jun 2015
Can't get the names of Stylistic Sets or Character Variants out of InDesign, so I wrote an own font parser ...
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