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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/3 replies 29 retweets 67 likesShow 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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Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary
I think you could, although I think it might get permutationally expensive? You could also have them occupy zero space and have a new character glyph, as I did here:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/886427020275535874?s=21 …
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