Developers of libre type tools. Tweets by @csimpkins
Joined September 2015
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Source Foundry retweeted
20 Sep 2022
COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations
simoncozens.github.io/colrv1…
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Source Foundry retweeted
16 Sep 2022
That's super cool, Just! Here is Fontra running on a chromebook. Finally I don't always need to have a Mac at hand just to inspect some font sources :)
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Source Foundry retweeted
15 Sep 2022
If you are adventurous, and setting up a Python virtual environment doesn’t scare you: please join us in our quest to create an awesome browser-based font editor!
fontra.xyz
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Source Foundry retweeted
14 Sep 2022
See the new color fonts on Google Fonts? 😍
Variable fonts that you can update with CSS ✨
This is "Nabla", a color font inspired by isometric computer games 🕹️
You can change depth, highlight, and even override the color palette 🎨
👉 material.io/blog/color-fonts…
👇 Demo link
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BREAKING: Adobe is nearing a deal to acquire Figma, a startup that makes online design collaboration tools, sources say trib.al/u7hC3Sn
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Source Foundry retweeted
17 Jul 2022
Looks like Illustrator followed Photoshop made the switch to HarfBuzz, so only InDesign is left.
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Source Foundry retweeted
18 Jun 2022
f-actions/hyperglot v1.0.0
GitHub Action for font language support testing based on the @rosettatype Hyperglot executable and database
Simple to include in new and existing GitHub Actions build workflows.
Apache 2.0
github.com/marketplace/actio… #fonts #languages #i18n #l10n
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Source Foundry retweeted
24 May 2022
Published today, A guide to Hinting Complex Variable fonts in VTT, using Noto Serif Devanagari, as a case study. A big thank you @kalapi for your help and feedback. Feedback welcome : ) @davelab6 @csimpkins
googlefonts.github.io/how-to…
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24 Mar 2022
TIL
You can grep font binaries for table tag strings. Found this in an old TypeDrawers thread. Thanks @simoncozens!
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Source Foundry retweeted
15 Feb 2022
Respecting the outlines
Notes on Hinting Variable fonts in Visual TrueType (VTT)
github.com/googlefonts/how-t…
@davelab6 @csimpkins
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Source Foundry retweeted
A step forward: Microsoft Edge has updated with Chromium 98, and now supports COLR v1.
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Source Foundry retweeted
28 Jan 2022
ufofmt (v0.7.1)
A fast, flexible UFO source file formatter based on the Rust Norad library
Minor fix, includes a number of dependency updates.
github.com/source-foundry/uf…
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Source Foundry retweeted
14 Jan 2022
Avoiding Source Code Spoofing
unicode.org/L2/L2022/22007-a…
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Source Foundry retweeted
28 Dec 2021
I may be getting close to my life long dream of ASCII art for building tool UI. _Hopefully_ this will be good enough to be a part of ezui in @roboFontEditor in the future. I'm updating all the ezui demos to use it as a test case and so far so good… 🔡➡︎➡︎➡︎☎️🖼🔘☑️🎚&c.
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Source Foundry retweeted
20 Dec 2021
Vectora
A #rustlang library for vector computation with real and complex scalar data
Notable:
- vector arithmetic with operator overloads
- float approx eq rel
- common ops (dot, linear interp, magnitude, dist, norm,…)
github.com/chrissimpkins/vec…
Docs: docs.rs/vectora
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How to Manually Install, Update, and Uninstall Fonts on Linux by @csimpkins link.medium.com/9lmuRDYFQlb
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