Alphabet Soup is a project which attempts to determine a number of things about the shapes of letters in several different writing systems. First, it hypothesizes a set of basic building blocks that all letters are built up from. Second, it hypothesizes a set of rules, a grammar or syntax, which defines how those pieces combine to make different letters.

With LAIKA, there is finally a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of its cuts. A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings.

"Unicode 5.0 encodes exactly 98,884 graphic characters on different planes. Here you can see them all."

gelvetica / tomatica / heldentica

free lightweight webserver, supporting python & ruby, great for small web-based projects

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simpler than xml

universal vector image converter

Lucas de Nijs on design education and the role of new media in typography

smooth brush dynamics method

clever hack - using 3D 4x4 matrixes for colour mapping