I wanted to make a lot of little girls feel like princesses on that first day of school.Susan Stewart, a teacher in Joplin, Missouri • Discussing her efforts to give young students an emotional boost. Students are back in school after Joplin was hit with devastating tornadoes and storms back in May. Stewart created “Project First Day,” which helped create over 1,400 new dresses for girls on their first day of school. Members of the project sewed from across the country to help out a devastated town. source (via • follow)
The underlying architecture of Chartwell revolves around ligature substitutions. Most typefaces use ligatures to prevent glyphs from crashing into each other. A simple swap code looks something like:
sub f i by f_i;
So, whenever an “f” appears next to an “i”, the two get swapped out with a…
The firm that made the Chartwell thing we posted earlier has a Tumblr. The method used to make this is pretty amazing. There was a lot of automation and many more glyphs. (thanks backoffice for pointing this out)
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