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> All credit for the original design and build system goes to Belleve Invis and the Iosevka contributors.

But no credit or thanks to Neil the designer of Berkeley Mono?


This looks like nothing more than a 300+ line Iosevka configuration

https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono/blob/main/private-bui...


That's pretty cool.

FWIW, here's screenshot of same code snippet using both original and mimic.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono/refs/h...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono/refs/h...

Creating such a close match impresses me. Many times, I'll like parts of a font, but can't abide by the line spacing, heights, widths, weights, or whatever.

The ability to more precisely "tune" a typeface would be neat.



Originally on iPhone — he used an app called Brushes, by Steve Sprang.


Thanks. I'm sure Sprang loved having Hockney as a user! I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.


> he wasn't a grumpy technophobe.

> I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.

So does that make you the "grumpy technophobe"?

Or is it perfectly reasonable for people to choose to what technology they want without being called a "grumpy technophobe"?

I know for many people on this site their paychecks require them to promote genai trash, but how funny would it be for a successful visual artist to just start prompting their legacy into existence producing the same results that a toddler would get by banging on a keyboard into the same genai prompt input textarea to avoid having people on tech's payroll calling them "grumpy technophobes".


a single font can contain a maximum of about 65000 glyphs, but there are over 150000 defined Unicode glyphs, so a single font of last resort isn’t possible, unfortunately. Complete coverage would require multiple fonts.


I've never looked into this in detail before, you're right, it looks like android has over 100. Although composite font representation is supposed to fix this.


you can use this site to check that the name you choose hasn’t already been taken:

https://namecheck.fontdata.com/


The poster for Colossus:Forbin was very disappointing. The title sequence graphics for the movie were great - but the poster doesn’t show a computer at all, although the movie is all about them.



I suspect that few professional (paid for) adverts use any fonts from dafont.com, and many fonts would anyway be unavailable to ordinary users. The current font recogniser programs are usually trained on commercially available fonts


Interleaf rose and fell spectacularly. Writing the entire user interface code in Common Lisp was an interesting feature.


Unicode doesn’t allow any logos or “personal characters” so it wouldn’t be accepted for inclusion…


Wow, it actually has gatekeeping!


perhaps it’s a homage to the famous Helix database (see Wikipedia)


well noted


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