Designer-in-residence (2025–26) at the Centre for Text Margins.
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2026-07-29T23:43:04Z Event JSON
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Last Notes npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki Working on a new editor (again)! This one simulates letterpress where you make digital layouts with cut-outs from old scanned type specimens, all in type size so the images could be recreated in with real type on real letterpress! It supports all point sizes and shapes, so it's not restricted to square shapes. npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki New tool: POLYARC DRAW is free online vector graphics drawing tool based on my research on polycentric arcs. I've also included around 1300 old school textures that you can drag&drop onto shapes! npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki My pre-ASCII art / pictorial typography / text art archive site is out now! npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki @nprofile…lwfy npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki Added animation, timelapse and red color today! npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki @nprofile…l8pm npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki I'm listing things InDesign can't do. What am I missing? npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki Accidentally discovered a flood fill based cellular automata while making a simple paint app. npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki My first project as the resident artist at the Centre for Text Margins is out: npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki A print created 100% using my new editor. It's a font renderer, a font editor and a simple layout system all in one. The fonts are made using three commands: moveTo, lineTo and conicTo, which is like quadratic Bezier but with an additional "sharpness" parameter. The layout system has optical kerning and a rag/justification line breaking system which rags the text, but if the line is almost to the edge, it tries to "squeeze it in". The font in the image is made in the editor within an afternoon. npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki @nprofile…cfuw npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki There's a great video, "The Mark of Man", showing how it was used in a high-speed S-C 4020 printer in 1963. npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki More weird old tech. This is the Charactron, originally patented in 1954, and used throughout 1960s. It was an another obscure CRT tech, in which characters were created by shooting beams of electrons *through* a stencilled metal plate with alphanumeric symbols. As the beam passed through the character matrix, it took the shape of the character it passed through, and displayed it on the screen. npub1c80j8pcpt0a3ra308v7xfd0tj9rzawcshafj7lh5rlhck6fcfmcq9skukk heikki A recent experiment. I made an "ascii automata" which on click places a random glyph, then analyzes if the character "touches" any of the glyph edges, then places another random character which continues the edge connection, and so forth, until it places a character that doesn't touch any edges. I made it so that you can mix and match different character sets from the dropdown menu (or load your own as png).
