Community creates a textual font

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odod
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Re: Community creates a textual font

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liuscorne wrote: 20 Nov 2019, 17:22 Luc de Groot (one the best type designers around) has a whole theory of how interpolation works:

https://www.lucasfonts.com/learn/interpolation-theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75Efo7whrs

The following page has a nice visual aid to demonstrate how the outlines of a particular font change depending on the font weight. It's much more complicated than simply "boldening" an existing font weight (and it involves the same kind of mathematics needed for interpolation):
http://metapolator.com/home/
whoaaa this is fantastic resource, thank you so much
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Re: Community creates a textual font

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odod wrote: 23 Nov 2019, 06:37 whoaaa this is fantastic resource, thank you so much
+1 :!:
Very interesting, thank you.
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