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First Contact

May 23rd, 2011 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on First Contact

Tomorrow/morgen/demain: First Contact! [EN] Tuesday 24 May @ 19:00 the D.I.Y. bookscanner built by/in Hackerspace Brussels will be operated for the first time through a speculative software that Pierre Marchand developed with contributions from John Haltiwanger. The experiment traverses text, image and data and plays with the various textures in-between. The code is under development […]

Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine

November 23rd, 2010 · Tags: · · · 2 Comments

Imagine1 a paragraph in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The Scribus text-engine receives this cluster of characters as a first input. Now the shaper will start to work; it has to decide what features need to be applied to the cluster. Do characters need to be re-ordered? Do ligatures […]

Font Secrets Revealed

March 31st, 2010 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Font Secrets Revealed

You’re welcome for a series of talks by Dave Crossland