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tphinney

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Fonts & typography. Type designer, expert witness and consultant, President of ATypI. Dad and spouse. He/his or they/theirs

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So, the so-called Bionic Reading (https://bionic-reading.com/) got some independent testing and … appears to not do a damn thing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824001811

Unsurprising. A LOT of supposed breakthroughs in reading (including, but not only, dyslexic reading) turn out to be contradicted by available evidence.

The things that DO work are generally achievable with adjustments in font choice (from among normal fonts) or in typesetting (with normal typesetting variables, not “weird secrets”).

tphinney, to random
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Git is awesome, but occasionally troublesome in CPU usage.... click on photo to see how.

Luke, to random
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Okay, bike people.

Tall person bikes. GO.

#❤️

tphinney,
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@onpaperwings @sajatype @JTDType @Luke But is it an REO Speedvagen?

arstechnica, to random
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Glassdoor adding users’ real names, job info to profiles without consent

Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

tphinney,
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@arstechnica
It’s even worse than you think.

You can’t close your account without logging in. And they won’t let you finish logging in without giving them tons more personal information.

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It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

tphinney,
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@Jennifer @lrvick I am imagining that the org is using some kind of patient service system that (1) is required, and (2) only works on iOS and Android, but has no web option. (Or if it does, they are not using it.)

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I know this is an extremely niche post and only a few people will know or even care, but HOW can the world’s best watch company, Patek Philippe, make amazing watches with incredible technical prowess and then just phone it in on the typography on the dial?!

Truly the most 🤢 watch dial in my opinion and an affront to their entire catalogue of beautiful watches.

Patek Philippe World Time 5231G Enamel Dial 18K White Gold watch with very boring and possibly artificially condensed all-caps serif type.
Patek Philippe World Time 5231J Enamel Dial 18K Yellow Gold watch with ugly typography around the dial.
A green Patek Philippe World Time 5930P Chronograph Platinum Green Dial watch with cheap-looking, san-serif typography.

tphinney,
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@onpaperwings @armstrong Closer to Monotype Corsiva (itself a Zapf Chancery substitute/space-alike) than Zapf Chancery. But still has a different R for one thing....

tphinney,
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@FontsInUse @tphinney @onpaperwings @armstrong ah of course. Should have thought of that

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This is just so darn clever. Whoever invented this innovative “Texture Healing” approach to more legible monospaced fonts is the most awesomest. (Also a great example of OpenType contextual layout coding.)

https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Texture%20Healing.md

tphinney, to random
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Vassil Stanev is looking for occasional p/t font engineering help. https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4962/searching-for-a-freelance-font-engineer-coder

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This online version of the Fontbakery font-testing tool is super useful to font developers and even mildly technical type designers.

http://fontbakery.com/

Installing and using the command-line version is a bit of a pain. Love the web version!

This tool was developed by Google Fonts with input especially from Adobe, and also Font Bureau, Type Network, Fontwerk and many individual type designers and type tech folks.

tphinney, to random
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Dinner companions at Face/Interface conference at Stanford: Zhao Liu, Anshuman Pandey and Donald Knuth. (And on either side of me, Roger Black and Andrew Glass)

tphinney, to random
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@glennf Have you seen this? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellolisahuang/words-of-type
She is having trouble getting over the hump, looks like she may end up in that rare valley of mostly-funded but did not make it. Any promo help appreciated!

tphinney,
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@glennf Hoping you could toot about it!

Maybe she will try again if it fails? tbd

tphinney, to random
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Well, another step towards the future in which AI generation of fonts is a thing. https://serce.me/posts/02-10-2023-hey-computer-make-me-a-font
This is initially limited, but most of the limitations are directly to indirectly about memory and computing power. If you had enough to throw at it, this could be adapted to generate full fonts. Quality is another question, of course… and a critical one.

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🔥 15 DAYS LEFT to submit proposals for talks, panels or other content for the global typography and fonts conference, ATypI, in Brisbane, Australia, April 16–20, 2024) https://atypi.org/conferences-events/atypi-brisbane-2024/call-for-proposals/

NOTE: diverse speakers and those who have not presented at ATypI before are especially welcome! Need feedback or advice? Ask here or DM me.

tphinney, to random
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I saw a WaPo headline about current interest rates being “high” and wondered WTF they were talking about.

Turns out it all depends on your perspective. Past 20 years? Yes, 5% is high. Past 50 years? Not so much.

tphinney,
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@onpaperwings Your implication is well founded. Home ownership in the US went down noticeably in the early 80s—although nowhere near the crash it took from ~ 2007-2016.

tphinney,
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@glennf @onpaperwings It's true, inflation in general was higher — as were wage increases. Although of course those were not evenly distributed. :/

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Even if CNET’s SEO experts have figured out a Google hack by deleting 1,000s of old articles, the hack won’t last for long, particularly since Google denies it exists and thus if they find out how it works will clearly remove it. In the meantime, CNET has devalued its writers, editors, and history itself. The marginal improvement in revenue must be shockingly low—but experts have to justify why you're paying them.

tphinney,
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@glennf Oh noes! Details? (Like: how recent, and did they just delete everything older than a certain date or what?)

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My spouse got me this ice cream, knowing my decades-long interest in durian without having eaten one. (People I’ve met from Malaysian who love durian have said if you don’t get it fresh, it’s not great.) The ice cream smells kind of awful, as anticipated. But once you get down a little where the fruit is mixed in, wowwwweee. Amazing.

tphinney,
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@glennf tastes great, smells like barf! What’s not to love!!!! 😹

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    tphinney,
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    @scott Any brand at all? Or just Huy Fong?

    Have you tried Sky Valley for sambal oelek?

    I quite like their sriracha, the only one I have liked as much as Huy Fong’s. Has a slightly more smoky flavor, perhaps a bit less vinegar.

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    @scott I see it on Amazon. Good luck—and let me know what you think of it. (I’m too overstocked on hot sauces and the like to try anything new for a bit.)

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    @lttrspc @scott
    Are y’all coming to TypeCon? Could be a great opportunity to spread Dutch-Indian food....

    tphinney, to random
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    Proposals for future OpenType features and functionality introduced (and often demonstrated) at ATypI Paris conference yesterday: https://medium.com/@paszkowska.marianna/shaping-the-future-of-typography-an-exploration-of-opentype-2-0-enhancements-and-impact-355d691b3bbe

    tphinney, to random
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    I am trying to decide to where I should migrate my best content from Quora. I have a bunch of answers there, some refined over time. I could make them blog posts on my own blog (thomasphinney.com, desperately needs a refresh but I could do that too).

    Any other ideas? I could post on Medium, but somebody else’s site seems like a bad idea. The whole reason I am leaving Quora is because they are making decisions that are bad for me.

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