@lil5@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 07:50:10
Artist made a font that looks really good
#geekvillage #noai #fonts
@lil5@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 07:50:10
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-22 00:39:33
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-12 06:15:16
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google-Fonts-Abmahnwelle: BGH schickt Grundsatzfragen zu IP-Adressen an den EuGH
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-12-21 20:43:28
New SQL Notebook: Home made font tracing
There are many tools outwhere to create fonts from bitmap images, be it handwritten fonts or fonts from old books. They all involve quite a lot of homework. Letters have to be written carefully on a grid, bounding boxes have to be defined.
I wondered if the process could be made a little bit more straightforward. I want just to scan a book´s page and the tool creates the font for me, identifying all letters.
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/home-made-font-tracing.json
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-12-15 21:11:21
@… https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Instrument Serif is currently used pretty heavily by the US Govt
2026-01-04 01:17:45
Xorg pixel fonts traced to TTF, great source for cases when you need a pixel font super family to replicate a more genuine retro pixel-perfect UI.
Example of available font matrix:
(Helvetica, Times, Courier, Century) × (8 10 11 12 14 14 17 18 20 24 25 34px) × (Regular, Bold) × (Roman, Italic/Oblique)
github.com/blueset/xorg-fonts
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 05:35:38
The Biden administration may have shot the serif,
switching from Times New Roman font on the grounds that serif-less fonts such as Calibri are more accessible to readers with disabilities.
That’s all over now.
The State Department Action Request reads:
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products
and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program,
the Department is return…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-13 10:00:18
For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-10 09:56:00
Google-Fonts-Abmahnwelle: BGH schickt Grundsatzfragen zu IP-Adressen an den EuGH
Sind dynamische IP-Adressen immer personenbezogen und dürfen Abmahnwillige Datenschutzverstöße gezielt in industriellem Maßstab provozieren, um abzukassieren?
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-12-16 14:09:25
Today, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-11-26 12:07:27
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-08 21:51:31
I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …
@offenenetze@chaos.social2026-01-10 15:42:00
Google-Fonts-Abmahnwelle: BGH schickt Grundsatzfragen zu IP-Adressen an den EuGH | heise online
https://heise.de/-11136713
@datascience@genomic.social2025-12-09 11:00:01
Using fonts in R graphics can be tricky at times. {showtext} aims to make it easier: #rstats
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-15 23:16:11
Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.
![Mastodon's official UI home screen. There are three columns taking up the whole screen. Left column has half taken up with an input form for posting a new toot. Then there's some wasted space, and at the bottom a bunch of text links: "social.ridetrans.it: [About] [Profiles directory] [privacy policy]", etc.
The middle column has all the toots from my timeline. There is only a single thin grey line separating the toots, and the text is small and somewhat difficult to read.
The right column…](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/556/258/266/351/584/original/9b54ad3448805067.png)
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-12-12 13:12:03
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-01-11 21:27:44
The emergence and proliferation of “influencers” reminds me of when the LaserWriter first appeared, and everybody went nuts with the fonts and formatting and printing all kinds of bullshit because now they could, cheaply, and then gradually it all died down and became just another useful tool, except the influencers are still shitting out their crap because they all see the few who are making bank at it and dream of being the next superstar. Humans are so fucking gullible. Oooh, shiny!
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-12 05:18:00
Montag: Smartphonehersteller gegen Indien, Datenschutzpanne bei Lohnabrechnungen
Indien will Quellcodezugriff Fehlzustellungen bei der Datev Raubkopien für Meta Quest EuGH prüft Google-Fonts-Abmahnungen Vorabpreise für Steam Machine
@axbom@axbom.me2025-12-10 05:59:33
The latest on the Western Front. Oh, sorry, the Western font. These conflicts run through everything. And yes, fonts matter.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-times-new-roman-calibri_n_6938c4e6e4b0fc6751e2aa6c
«U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his …
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-times-new-roman-calibri_n_6938c4e6e4b0fc6751e2aa6c
«U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his …
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-12-10 18:53:04
Slack's fonts are all fucked on Windows.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2025-11-09 07:54:55
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2026-01-10 21:55:52
One of the things that is interesting doing mass encodes is verifying all of the little things that can just mess everything up. If you're pulling in stuff like 3rd-party subtitles, then you have to verify the timing of the subtitles and adjust as necessary. Even better, if those are SubStation Alpha subtitles, you have to verify if the style fonts get added as attachments to the MKV file.
And if it's across something like a TV show, you definitely need to do this for every e…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-07 07:05:08
Top 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser
@todbot@mastodon.social2025-11-05 23:09:49
Just upgraded to MacOS 26.1 on a computer w/ an external 1920x1200 monitor and it looks TERRIBLE. The fonts in the official apps (Messages, etc) look grody with no way to change apparently. The whole interface is like an sophomore attempt w/ the over-rounded edges. So gross & amateurish #macos
@todbot@mastodon.social2025-11-05 23:09:49
Just upgraded to MacOS 26.1 on a computer w/ an external 1920x1200 monitor and it looks TERRIBLE. The fonts in the official apps (Messages, etc) look grody with no way to change apparently. The whole interface is like an sophomore attempt w/ the over-rounded edges. So gross & amateurish #macos
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-10-30 14:00:19
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@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-11-06 13:29:59
@… just a question, I had a look at some your extraordinary work, and I realized that in the example pictures you have an Æ/æ and a Þ/þ, but there's no Ð/ð. Is the letter missing just in the picture or also the fonts? I know Icelandic doesn't have many uses, but since you created two of the special characters I wonder if you forgot the third
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-01-03 13:09:36
So it's been pointed out that steve, the #jobserver, doesn't have a #logo. Here's a first approximation. Made in #Inkscape, using lines and fonts (the apples are from Noto Sans, I think). I also have an SVG version but browsers mess it up by substituting the apples for some colorful emojis with incompatible metrics. I've added a bright background, since the actual transparent background doesn't work on black (which seems to be Mastodon default).
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2025-12-02 01:01:17
IA: Man against the machine…
Font licencing claims shake-down (Insanity Works)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down?utm_source=fediverse
@joe@toot.works2025-12-22 22:59:38
Apparently, I can get a free collection of fonts because I purchased Affinity 2. This feels like a shitty consolation prize.
@todbot@mastodon.social2025-11-05 23:26:48
@… Good question. It doesn’t seem to mess with display scaling, but I think perhaps they’re using fonts now that require a Retina/HiDPI display to look usable
@csessh@social.linux.pizza2025-12-31 02:52:18
As a back-end dev, developing https://kifuoku.com/, a web version of memorising and recalling Go kifu, has been a fun experience.
It's been like experiencing culture shock: I have to care about responsive layouts on multiple devices? fonts? logo?
I learn quickly from users' feedback <3
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-12-23 19:40:03
Home made PostScript Type 3 fonts
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/home-made-postscript-type-3-fonts.json
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-04 12:02:23
Estic buscant "testers" per a una "forja alternativa" ( basada en #Forgejo )
#CodiLliure, probablement de pagament per a projectes privats (tot i que per ara és la oferim sense cost per a tothom fins a la data oficial de llançament)
En quant tinguem clients de pagament, donarem una proporció fixa d'aquests ingressos al projecte Forgejo.
La forja l'allotgem a #Europa, en un proveïdor que fa servir energia de fonts renovables, i la mantenim a una petita #cooperativa catalana.
P.S.: Sí, coneixem el gran Codeberg :) .
#Catalunya #Cooperativisme #ProgramariLLiure
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-12-25 15:39:21
In their PostScript Type 1 font specifications, Adobe makes a very clear statement: The source code of font programs is protected by copyright laws, but not the shapes of the fonts: "the typeface shapes are not protected, but the program text is. A copyright on
a Type 1 font program that generates a particular typeface does not preclude anyone from independently creating a different program for that same typeface."
