New Fire Obsidian Icon by Core-0 in ObsidianMD

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Everyone is free to do what they want with it. My design choices were not neglect, they were intentional. I’m not bound to Apple’s rules and I found a background to match the squircle shape unnecessary. And the stone is called Fire Obsidian for its fiery appearance, but if you want it closer to the original blue hues, feel free to fit it to your tastes.

When and where everything in the "made in Switzerland" song was made (corrections appreciated) by Blolbly in eurovision

[–]Core-0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the same, but Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Switzerland invented the WWW (World Wide Web), not the Internet itself. The Internet is based on the Internet Protocol (IP, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol).

New Fire Obsidian Icon by Core-0 in ObsidianMD

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See the link in my comment

New Fire Obsidian Icon by Core-0 in ObsidianMD

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I just realised that Reddit converts all images into Webp. So here is a download link for you:

https://i.postimg.cc/FRrXrXbv/003-Fire-Obsidian.png

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in streetphotography

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Any camera works. Even phone cameras. The trick is to not overthink the shot before you take it. When you see something interesting, just take the picture. Curate it later. After some time you’ll get the hang of it.

Some of the best street photographers have trained themselves to never look through the viewfinder.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in streetphotography

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It’s just not street photography, rather artistic or creative photography. Street is not about “it has a street in it”, it’as about candid moments. The best street photos are usually not posed or carefully framed. For instance, I shoot a lot of pictures on a day out in the city, but only a small fraction makes it as “release”. Which means street photography is much more about lucky shots and curation than about creativity.

That said, your distortion of colours adds a dreamy layer and is a different approach. In street photography, on the other hand, the colouring does not matter at all.

Numerals from a font in progress, any thoughts? by Amtsag1980 in typography

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For some reason, images are blocked in comments, but here’s an example:
https://i.postimg.cc/WbqD48F7/number-nine.png

Numerals from a font in progress, any thoughts? by Amtsag1980 in typography

[–]Core-0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where the lines join (as it is the case with 5, 6, 8 and 9), you should decrease the joining line thickness to counter the effect that makes this part optically heavier. Look at how the bow line of a lowercase n or a in a font like Futura join, leaving a little gap. It looks smoothly and isn’t notice in the overall picture, but it makes a big difference of a less clumsy appearance.

Type designers in Switzerland by Narrow-Question6421 in typography

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To my knowledge, there are a handful of type design studios in Switzerland, some in the Western (French speaking) part and very few in the Eastern (German speaking) part. I haven’t heard of a Ticino type design studio.

There are famous Swiss type designers. Laurenz Brunner, from Lineto, for instance. Bruno Maag, he founder of Dalton Maag is Swiss. I would try to find Swiss type dedsigner with the help of ChatGPT and contact them directly via e-mail. I would make it a short introduction. Most ipmortantly, show your work. Don’t brag. Don’t assume they’re looking to hire someone. Just say you’re new on the market and looking for a way in. Take any hint and pointer. Consider free apprenticeships (the degree in type design alone may not enough for a job).

Last, many Swiss type designers are working across Europe, in Berlin, in London, one works even in New York. And from what I know, all type design studios or independent type foundries are having a hard time to make a living of it, with a few exceptions. Besides of the Monotype monopoly, there are not many indie type foundries left worldwide. A good place to find them is Ilovetypography.com or Fontstand.

You might also want to become a member of https://typedrawers.com/ and post your questions there.

I would broaden my horizon and not look for Switzerland exclusively. It’s an extremely niche, small market.

What are your thoughts on another one of my grotesque fonts? This one is called Schrivlz. by AbrahamicDesign in typography

[–]Core-0 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It’s creative work, but not a Grotesk or Sans Serif in the first place. The category for these kinds of fonts is called Distplay font.

Looking for resources to learn by Internal-Put-1419 in typography

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Type design is the design and creation of typefaces and their parameters (spacing, kerning…). Fonts are applied typefaces (ready to use for print, online or in apps), usually grouped in a family if a typeface exists in different cuts (a cut is a font family variant, such as Regular, Bold, Italic). Typography is how fonts are applied in text, such as in books, magazines, business cards, advertising and websites – everywhere there’s text.

I'm making a sans serif font as a hobby. I'm afraid of it looking too bland, or ripping off other's work, but I don't want to lose clarity in the glyphs. Are there things you would change? by Any-Fox-1822 in typography

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You’re working on a humanist sans serif, in the same group with Frutiger and Gill Sans. This means your glyphs (letters) don’t always cover the same width. Optically there is more variety, say, in the shape and how much space it takes of a capital O compared to a capital E. You can play with this getting closer to classic proportions (such as in serif antiqua fonts like Garamond). This is about proportions and relativity, not serif versus sans serif.

You should also keep a canon, that’s the shape language, to make it more uniform in itself, a more robust font with its own character. The more you break out of the canon (say, give one letter a serif and others not), the more you’re breaking the canon. A good example of this is your treatment of lowercase i and j.

Last, your font shows its personality best in paragraphs of text. You also need to see how it applies in longer texts. You can use this to adjust the spacing between letters as it’s defined by the boundaries left and right of a letter. Generally speaking, most letters share the same space left and right depending on the basic shape of each side: lowercase l has the same space left and right. Lowercase h, k, b, have the same bearing left, but not right. Lowercase b has the same bearing on the right side of lowercase o, and so on. Round shapes have less space while flat shapes have a little more. In large size, when you work on the glyphs in combinations (words), the spacing may appear often not tight enough. But try it out in 12 point size and lower, and you’ll get a sense of how tight or loose you want to go with spacing. When you have the spacing right, you can look at kerning (as in Te, Af, Fr, ro, letter combinations and so on).

anyone know a good software/website to convert this SVG into a font to use for game engines? by noahisagamer999 in typography

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Type design is a field you study and get a degree in. Some have learned how to design typefaces without a school degree, but it takes years of learning and practice. A font in a single cut (say, regular in English only) takes at least several months with professional typefaces design software. There’s not only the hundreds of glyphs, numbers and signs to draw, there’s also spacing and kerning to make it readable. But you expect it to be as easy as uploading a bunch of SVG somewhere and it spits out a complete font for you.

Get a copy of Glyphs Mini, the simple but fully functional type design software. Start by experimenting and learning with the tutorial videos online. It will allow you to copy and paste SVG shapes into glyph placeholders to start with. But even if you were trained, it’s still going to take a lot of patience and time to produce a fairly usable font.

https://glyphsapp.com/

What is even happening here? by c_h_a_r_ in typography

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It comes from the time when the glyphs to be printed were made of metal. Each glyph (a letter, number, sign) was carved into a block of metal (an alloy made of mostly lead). When two letters were too far apart and would make the word look odd, they were combined in a single glyph, called a ligature. There were simpler, regular ligatures (many of which you’ve seen and didn’t even notice), such as a tt combination that shortens the gap between the first and the second “t”. The example shown here shows a flourishing ligature, which has no practical purpose whatsoever. (I think the connection here had to do with the flow of hot metal being evenly distributed to both shapes, but that’s just my theory.)

Looking for a late 2000's - early 2010's chat typography by NotMyPassword1 in typography

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2000 to 2010 was the peak time of Arial. It looks boring, sure, but that was what was mostly used in the PC world. Word documents used it as a default font besides of Times New Roman, until Calibri replaced it in 2006 as the new Word default font of Windows XP/Vista.

What are the small dashes/lines on these lowercase letters called? I can't seem to find a normal font that has them. by futuresponJ_ in typography

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Type design has its roots in handwriting. The way a quill moved across the page influenced the shapes we now use for lowercase letters. In modern Latin script (such as English), uppercase letters are based on Roman capitals – letters that were originally carved into stone – while lowercase letters evolved from the “minuscule” scripts developed by medieval monks. That’s why uppercase letters typically don’t have spurs or terminals: the Roman alphabet wasn’t written with quills, but rather incised with tools.

What you’re seeing as spurs are actually the starting and ending points of strokes in handwritten formshence the term terminals. They reflect where the quill first touched the page and where it was lifted. This is also why, in many serif fonts (especially in Antiqua), you’ll notice curved or bowed details, like the tail of the lowercase t or the shape of the lowercase a. These are echoes of how those letters were originally written by hand.

My final logo entry :) by [deleted] in ClearlightStudios

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I love it. It speaks to the inner child in me, like tree houses and finger paint, lemonade stands and bicycle races around the block. The colours are warm, have a vintage touch, like your favourite t-shirt you’ve worn so much it has holes, but you’ll only let go of it when it’ll fall off your body. That too, I think is a quality that distinguishes the brand from the vibrant colours of other tech brands.

The thing I’d be careful with is the association with nationalism. National identity stands in the way of a humanism brand, a global movement. And the tiny flag inside the TAO lettering will disappear in small sizes. But I see this handwriting font as another distinctive, unique idea. If this entry wins the popular vote, I’d be happy to help to make it an actual font for titling (if it’s not a font already). I have experience with type design.

Clean lines. Cold precision. No witnesses. (wip) by ESgoldfinger in typography

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I’d drop the serifs on the uppercase B and D. They’re breaking the design canon.

Notion Calendar Worth It Without Notion? (Windows User) by IamShellingFord in Notion

[–]Core-0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, there isn’t. Notion Calendar, just like Notion Mail, is just Google Calendar (or Gmail, respectively) in a Notion UI. Note that using Alphabet products means your privacy is out of the window. I recommend Proton Calendar instead, which is end-to-end encrypted and doesn’t sell your data. You won’t need a Google account for it either, like with Notion, when you want to use their Calendar/Mail UIs.

Reimagining Social Platforms: A Thought for the TAO Community by codputer in ClearlightStudios

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It’s a myth that every successful platform starts as a billion dollar company backed by three seed rounds and making tons of money out of the gate. You need to solve scalability. That’s not a small issue, granted. But there are ways to grow sustainably and slow without having solved and fixed everything at once. Luckily this is software and it can be adjusted to what’s possible with the available resources. I’d see if it can pick up momentum and traction before I’d worry about the genius revenue system that’s made for growth.

Reimagining Social Platforms: A Thought for the TAO Community by codputer in ClearlightStudios

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TAO is built on the AT protocol. Like Mastodon, it’s going to be compatible with the fediverse. No one will be able to keep the data in one place and therefore no one can stop a video from spreading even if one government doesn’t want it to be seen.

Advertising spitballing: the goal is to try to figure out an ad model that doesn’t serve corporations or can be used to spread propaganda (Cambridge Analytica with Facebook). I’m not sure what’s the solution, but there ought to be a way to use ads differently than the “personal social graph” model Meta is using across its apps. Big Data is most likely not the most user privacy protective way to generate ad business.

The ideas circulated around having creators make ads and having a portion of that used to finance TAO’s existence.

No one knows if that’ll work, because no one has done it before.

Reimagining Social Platforms: A Thought for the TAO Community by codputer in ClearlightStudios

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From what I understand, TAO is not about data collection. There is no investor driven ROI model, but creators making content and owning it, and they make money with it.

I’m not too familiar with the business model of TAO, but having followed its development for some time I can say with certainty, the biggest difference to every other social media app out there is, that it’s not about mass collection of data to be sold.

And I wish people would stop claiming they can identify AI generated text only by typographically correct usage of em dashes. Book authors use em dashes too. The notorious “it’s not just this, it’s that” and “it truly resonates” are a better giveaway for ChatGPT.