dmerfield

If someone interested in learning how to make fonts asked me for advice, I'd recommend he invest his time in FOSS software rather than proprietary tools which can (and do) fold and disappear. I've worked through FontForge's Beginners' guide and I'd recommend it to people with even a minor interest in type. You'll learn a lot beyond how to use the software itself:

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html

Comment · 7 years ago

Note that there is a powerful and stable font editor called FontForge, widely used by professional type designers, which happens to be GPL-licensed:

https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/

Comment · 8 years ago

No it doesn’t. Free speech means allowing nazis to express themselves so you and others can understand nazism.

If you’re genuinely interested in understanding the principle of free speech, I recommend this as an introduction:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/

Comment · 8 years ago

Per Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e) of the Code of Federal Regulations, typefaces cannot be copyrighted in the United States:

https://www.bitlaw.com/source/37cfr/202_1.html

Note that although the design of the typeface is not copyrightable, the computer programs which generate typefaces (‘fonts’) contain elements which are:

https://www.copyright.gov/history/mls/ML-443.pdf

Silicon Valley struggle sessions (2017) jacobitemag.com

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Comment · 8 years ago

The product you describe (“I maintain a local dropdown folder full of markdown files. At an interval or when one changes, there's a hook that automatically updates the content of my site.“) is something I’ve built:

https://blot.im

Comment · 8 years ago

The article is worth reading in its entirety but here is the thesis:

"Emoji is a language of borrowed “words” “curated” by technocrats (experts, presumably of technology, at the Unicode Consortium), who release those new “words” to platform vendors like Apple, Google, Facebook, & Twitter, who then decide how their users can express these “words” by altering their visual representation. (See Emojipedia for myriad examples ranging from humorous differences in artistic taste to clear differences in meaning.)"

I shared the article because it articulates the feeling I've long held that there is something Orwellian about emoji.