Fun stuff to try! 1. You can draw with your mouse or finger! If you do it, switching between the fonts will respect and not destroy your work. (Unless you draw an existing letter, which will be “OCR-ed.”) My favourite example so far: https://twitter.com/adurdin/status/994910698252718083 …
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Added two more fonts showing different ways of approaching the same problem. I hope someone can help me find a 20-something segment system so that we have every decade represented! https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/ pic.twitter.com/1JYv7rpwhE
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I love that people are trying to create emoticons/emoji with this.https://twitter.com/bartaz/status/995609396733456385?s=21 …
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This just made me laugh out loud.https://twitter.com/TheApparatchik/status/996049805699960834 …
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With great help from patent detective
@obra, we now have five new experimental segmented fonts that were never produced or very rare, most recreated from patent drawings. They are REALLY cool. https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/Show this thread -
1. A *six* segment font, made for a *pocket typewriter* 155 years ago. The typewriter had six keys, too – not unlike Braille, you would actually key in segments!pic.twitter.com/ITb7AM8YaE
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2. A wild 1896 font meant to be lit by… lamps. Only one letter, M, was in the patent, so I extrapolated all the rest.pic.twitter.com/WNbTPfN5Gm
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3. A recent font developed for e-ink displays, sent to me by its authors, Dave Vondle and Nicholas Zambetti.pic.twitter.com/x9E9PWN6BH
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4. An asymmetric font from 1958. Only digits were specified – check out that “4”! – so I extrapolated to the entire alphabet.pic.twitter.com/ktwTY6Ohf5
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5. And, lastly, an amazing discovery: A 1956 font by Fred P. Brooks, Jr. – the author of “The Mythical Man-Month”! It’s actually a bit of a cross between Nixie and segment font (overlapping segments), and it is an absolutely GORGEOUS art deco font. Look at those digits!pic.twitter.com/TTadostDMC
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As expected from a programmer, all the glyphs were specified as data, which I keyed in. As expected from a programmer, there were bugs. :·]pic.twitter.com/tQGTWgDwzY
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If I’d want to turn either of these into a real font, this would be it.
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There’s something really thrilling about bringing these long forgotten (155 years!) entities back to life. Thanks again to
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My friend
@julesforrest found a brilliant example of a different kind of segmented typography: digits made out of pipe fragments and connectors.pic.twitter.com/tQvy9ufA3s
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