osp blog - fontshttp://blog.osp.kitchen/2013-02-26T02:09:00+01:00OSP print party as bootstrap IV for the Balsa2013-02-26T02:09:00+01:002013-02-26T02:09:00+01:00Pierretag:blog.osp.kitchen,2013-02-26:/fonts/osp-print-party-as-bootstrap-iv-for-the-balsa.html<p>↓<br>
<em>Hello,<br>
Sorry to disturb you. We are a <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org">group of
designers</a> working in Brussels,
Belgium with free software and we've used for 18 months the Ume fonts
for the graphical and typographic identity of <a href="http://www.balsamine.be">a
theatre</a>. We are preparing a
presentation/performance in which we would love to insert some …</em></p><p>↓<br>
<em>Hello,<br>
Sorry to disturb you. We are a <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org">group of
designers</a> working in Brussels,
Belgium with free software and we've used for 18 months the Ume fonts
for the graphical and typographic identity of <a href="http://www.balsamine.be">a
theatre</a>. We are preparing a
presentation/performance in which we would love to insert some details
about the Ume fonts, their history, anecdotes, technical details,
anything. We found your 4 names spread out in <a href="http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ume-font/history/?limit=20&skip=640">the log of the Ume
font</a>
from 2006 till now. Maybe do you know some part, even very little, of
the of the journey of that font family?<br>
Many thanks in advance for any help!<br>
</em></p>
<p>↱ Bootstrap IV<br>
Open Source Publishing<br>
Print Party<br>
28/02 - 20h30<br>
<a href="http://www.balsamine.be/index.php/Saison2012-2013/BootstrapIV">http://www.balsamine.be/index.php/Saison2012-2013/BootstrapIV</a></p>
<p>Depuis 2 ans, la caravane OSP fait l'identité typographique de la Balsa.
Depuis 7 ans, la caravane OSP fait des print parties. Dans les deux cas,
ces pratiques utilisent des outils libres qui, par leur genèse
collaborative, changent les pratiques, qui à leur tour changent les
outils. OSP invite Mme Ume, l'ingénieure japonaise dessinatrice d'une
famille de police en usage à la Balsa. Sous ses instructions, ils
rejouent les journaux intimes des opérations graphiques. Les dialogues
donnent voix aux pratiques logicielles muettes et à leur écologie
culturelle. Un bootstrap qui crochette les serrures de l'identité
balsamique en mode repeat. ↪</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pantographe_tablette.png"><img alt="pantographe_tablette" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7192" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pantographe_tablette.png"></a></p>
<p>"La plupart des auteurs contemporains (artistes, designers, cinéastes,<br>
auteurs, scénographes), créent leur oeuvre à l'aide d'ordinateurs. Ils<br>
utilisent les logiciels par défauts, les mêmes outils que tout le monde<br>
utilise. Imaginez que ces logiciels n'étaient pas seulement faits pour<br>
faire le travail, mais seraient des outils à penser, des instruments à<br>
développer l'imagination, des objets qui repensent le monde dont ils<br>
font partie?" Femke Snelting, "Toolbending", 2012<br>
•<br>
<a href="http://billetterie.balsamine.be/cgi?lg=fr&pag=1727&rec=42">Réservations</a></p>Colored beehive2012-02-11T15:45:00+01:002012-02-11T15:45:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2012-02-11:/fonts/colored-beehive.html<p>Ana and Ricardo, our friends from
<a href="http://www.manufacturaindependente.org/" title="Manufacturaindependente">Manufacturaindependente</a>,
have join us at Variable house for a February residency busy with the
preparation of the <a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276">LGRU Co-position research
meeting</a>. In the beehive, maybe a
pre-workshop about Colorfonts?<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png"><img alt="manufacturaindependente -
Bonjourvariable" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7003" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png" title="Bonjourvariable"></a></p><p>Ana and Ricardo, our friends from
<a href="http://www.manufacturaindependente.org/" title="Manufacturaindependente">Manufacturaindependente</a>,
have join us at Variable house for a February residency busy with the
preparation of the <a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276">LGRU Co-position research
meeting</a>. In the beehive, maybe a
pre-workshop about Colorfonts?<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png"><img alt="manufacturaindependente -
Bonjourvariable" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7003" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png" title="Bonjourvariable"></a></p>interpunctie samples all.pdf2011-10-26T21:47:00+02:002011-10-26T21:47:00+02:00Pierretag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-10-26:/fonts/interpunctie-samples-all-pdf.html<p>From Thursday 20th to Sunday 23rd November OSP went to contemplate the
Bolwerk archives landscape from the window of <a href="http://www.fransmasereelcentrum.be/">Frans Masereel
Centrum</a>. As part of
<a href="http://www.ooooo.be/interpunctie">Bolwerk</a>'s residency, we were invited
to propose a reading of Bolwerk's material inbetween its punctuation.
Linked to our actual and future projects, this journey …</p><p>From Thursday 20th to Sunday 23rd November OSP went to contemplate the
Bolwerk archives landscape from the window of <a href="http://www.fransmasereelcentrum.be/">Frans Masereel
Centrum</a>. As part of
<a href="http://www.ooooo.be/interpunctie">Bolwerk</a>'s residency, we were invited
to propose a reading of Bolwerk's material inbetween its punctuation.
Linked to our actual and future projects, this journey also presented
itself as a good start to investigate archive visualization/schematics
and digest. We arrived with a proposal focussing on tools development,
bases of an archives blender, a small chain of automatic process.</p>
<p>On the spot, in the plastic yurt heated by a wood-burning stove, we
discovered 87000+ files on the Bolwerk nas harddrive. All our sources
(scripts, tests, drawings and pictures) are gathered in <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git">this public git
repository</a>.
In the current documentation text, you can find
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=tree">links</a>
to readable files and preview of the result.</p>
<p>To have an overview of all the digital archives, we first built <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=landscape-plotter.sh">4 bash
scripts</a>
going through the directories looking on 4 criterias:<br>
- time scale<br>
- number of files<br>
- size of the files<br>
- filetypes</p>
<p>From this, we get a text output already drawing a first visual
landscape, see
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=landscape-saturday.csv">landscape-saturday.csv</a></p>
<p>Then, in a graphic translation attempt, we started a plotter script, to
plot this landscape into visual/graphic shapes. Is it the rotary
structure of the physical archive in the yurt, or our temporary traveler
status here that resonate with Bolwerk's seems permanent one? It's not
clear but we had this idea to draw the directories as bags, attributing
one parameter to their description elements.<br>
- width : time scale<br>
- height : number of files<br>
- colors of the bag : filetypes<br>
- roundness : size of the files<br>
See
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=plotter/plot4.svg">plot4.svg</a>
(in /plotter directory).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/plot4.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6857" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/plot4.png" title="plot4"></a></p>
<p>The shapes are distributed along the timeline from left to right
(1997-2011). The most large they are the more the files and directories
they contain, the vertical piling was defined by the browsing order. The
archives has been clearly compiled with 2 past periods of grouping, and
a more regular the lasts years (as many archiving of digital files
travel from one kind of media to another).</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/bag.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6857" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/bag.png" title="bag"></a>
This attempt to draw the landscape with differents bags, raised again
questions that were floating around us for a while. How to shape the
bags/directories, can we avoid the designer/developer dichotomy
(starting from an arbitrary symbol/drawing / from an arbitrary process)?
Plot only the dots contained in the files in the directories, as a free
interpretation of the screening process present in different place in
this graphic farm and in answer for the astonishingly new question from
Marthe for us "how the shape of the dot vary with fonts"? Or the files
as dots? Why are we somehow reluctant to visualize the data of the
archives? After years of <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/">Edward
Tufte</a> impact on some of us and on
the field, is it linked to Ted Byfield's <a href="http://www.shenkar.ac.il/digitalcultureconf/speakers.html">conference in Tel
Aviv</a> where
he develop some aspects of <a href="http://streamingculture.parsons.edu/parsons-the-new-school-for-design-050710-0516pm/">its
critics</a>,
or the approximation found at <a href="http://www.yuxiyou.net/blog/">middle
page</a> and elsewhere, or around <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/data-visualisation-visualization?CMP=twt_gu">that
article</a>
or <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/21/the-do%e2%80%99s-and-don%e2%80%99ts-of-infographic-design-revisited/">these
pamphlets</a>
about visualization? Is the muted but even more palpable and strong
influence, here at the wood cutting Masereel mansion, of the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_%28picture_language%29">Isotype</a>
system from the team Neurath/woodcutter Arntz and particulary the
transformation of complex source information into a sketch for a
self-explanatory chart, mainly by the transformer Marie Reidemeister?</p>
<p>Looking to it as a landscape in a contemplative way, looking at the
hard-drive in a calm way, different for an top/down approach of some
past anthropological pseudo-objectivity or burning with some efficiency
in mind, by practicing it like to roving some paths in the forest?
Because we feel that practicing the data, chewing it up, became part of
it as in any quantum experience was the only way to try to balance a bit
the asymmetric and problematic relationship that we can have with a 14
years archive of a multi-crossed-mono-person-organisation (and that we
dare to link with Roy Wagner, à propos des relations initiales avec les
Daribi de la Nouvelle-Guinée, "leur façon de ne pas me comprendre
n'était pas la même que celle que j'avais de ne pas les comprendre"
maybe also because our permanent cross-lingual during that residency,
which shape also deeply the <em>incorrect</em> writing of the current post).</p>
<p>Our favorite atomic bricks, fonts and her quarks glyphs, and more
precisely fonts contained in the pdfs contained in the archive, appears
to be possible candidates to bootstrap us from the wood smoke. An
excavator is added, the fonts resulting of that operation shows how
different applications embed and subset fonts when exporting pdfs. By
counting the fonts, merging the fonts that are each directory, based on
glyph missing, producing the digital upper-and-lower-cases of Bolwerk.</p>
<p>As a last detour we plotted the samples collection through Scribus
outlined pdf, <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=tree;f=plotter/samples;h=8f9f546a5f29d836eded41d701f110b5fb3af370;hb=HEAD">see
plotter/samples</a>,
like an echo to decrypt from a certain today in the fiction of being
already in the future.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/samples_all_outlined_124.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6857" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/samples_all_outlined_124.png" title="samples_all_outlined_124"></a></p>
<p>-
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=plotter/samples/samples_all_outlined.pdf">samples_all_outlined.pdf</a>
(all the chars of the merged fonts - 458 pages)<br>
-
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=plotter/samples/interpunctie_samples.pdf">interpunctie_samples.pdf</a>
(all the periods of the merged fonts on one sheet)<br>
-
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=plotter/samples/interpunctie_samples_all.pdf">interpunctie_samples_all.pdf</a>
(more interpunction)<br>
- and
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git;a=blob;f=plotter/samples/interpunctie_all_esthetified.pdf">interpunctie_all_esthetified.pdf</a>
for which Gijs write us as a temporary end dot: "<em>I've put some thought
into that name. It felt like a bizarre act / twist:to just center the
text out of aesthetic considerations. After such a rough process.</em>"</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/interpunctie_samples_all1.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6857" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/interpunctie_samples_all1.png" title="interpunctie_samples_all1"></a></p>Year - Mousse2011-07-21T19:43:00+02:002011-07-21T19:43:00+02:00Pierretag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-07-21:/fonts/year-mousse.html<p>A few weeks ago, a <a href="http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=15870">365 pages
magazine</a> has been
published by <a href="http://www.kmplt.be/project.php">Komplot</a> and David Evrard
in Brussels. Even if it is not strictly an OSP job (it miss, by exemple,
the necessery plural workers), it smells libre graphics around its
square ears. Another magazine, <a href="http://www.moussemagazine.it">Mousse</a>,
ask questions, multivoices amongst …</p><p>A few weeks ago, a <a href="http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=15870">365 pages
magazine</a> has been
published by <a href="http://www.kmplt.be/project.php">Komplot</a> and David Evrard
in Brussels. Even if it is not strictly an OSP job (it miss, by exemple,
the necessery plural workers), it smells libre graphics around its
square ears. Another magazine, <a href="http://www.moussemagazine.it">Mousse</a>,
ask questions, multivoices amongst publishers and designers answer.<br>
[gallery]<br>
<!--more--><br>
<em>What triggered the need to publish something like YEAR?</em><br>
The need to make the story. Something like that. Tell the story in your
own words. When you do something like that, at a point, you can’t do
something else. No choice. And the absence of choice is, by definition,
necessity! Héhé… You know it’s just something growing on a table with a
few people are sitting around…</p>
<p><em>The interesting feature is its apparent non-linear structure, meaning
that it can be read and enjoyed randomly. What do you think are the
advantages of a publication based such loose structure?</em><br>
There are two ideas of time. One of these is : time is a line, and you
can highlight some points on this big, general and academic line. This
is History. This is competition. The second idea is : time is a collage
of moments, a suite, a partition. This is Stories. Using this second
idea, you can see time as different layers where time is space. You need
time to read/make ? a book. YEAR is about time. We separated the book in
12 parts like a calendar, with internal covers copying the design of
existing revues titled with months’ name… i think readers of Mousse
easily recognized the US magazine October or the French one May, for
example… A calendar is physically made out of this idea of time. The
setting is made out of layers… Layers that can be projective… No matter
what’s the first. This is not a competition.<br>
The 12 parts and covers refer also to what is call in French a
"recueil", a compendium that some publisher produce from all the
magazines of a year, pack in a cheap (or luxury, but contrasted from the
rest) cover et resold as a different item. So yes, it prays to be read
asynchroniously. And so the strange number of pages.</p>
<p><em>How did you select the contributions for YEAR?</em><br>
Just like for a surprise party… a scene as an experimental
constellation… We also invited people to curate part of the books from
their own activities : Devrim Bayar from the Wiels, Yann Chevallier from
Le Confort Moderne, Jean Paul Jacquet from La Chaussette or Margot from
Etablissement d’en face …</p>
<p><em>Did you have to give up or compromise with the printing process and
binding? Why did you choose a yellow pages kind of paper?</em><br>
Because it's the cheapest. No kidding. When you decide to produce a 365
pages magazine with quite nothing at the start, very few advertisers,
you're in a straight economy. Others decisions came up from that
standing point too : rotary printing press, only a quarter of the pages
in colour, the stickers on blanco cardboard. The play was then to
stretch these rough options to somewhat strange variations, with no
additional costs, only by allocating time to convince printers and
binders. So the uncut bottom of pages and gluing. About the conception
and design process, some parts has follow the same ecology of choice
with the use of free not as-in-free-beer handmade software. But only a
few, because it seems that no discipline can be relevant for some
South-West Brussels inhabitants. At the opposite side, no fonts used has
been in contact with a lawyer to write his license. And yes, you spotted
it, the main font was grabbed where it's called "a typeface for the
nations".</p>Sans Guilt, it looks like the story continues2011-05-27T20:21:00+02:002011-05-27T20:21:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-27:/fonts/sans-guilt-it-looks-like-the-story-continues.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"></p>
<p><small>Do you remember that we sent <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/typo/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter">a
letter</a>
a few weeks ago. We are finally expecting an answer from our
correspondent and we feel it is time to reveal the content of this
letter. Feel free to react to this letter either on this blog, by mail
or on any …</small></p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"></p>
<p><small>Do you remember that we sent <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/typo/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter">a
letter</a>
a few weeks ago. We are finally expecting an answer from our
correspondent and we feel it is time to reveal the content of this
letter. Feel free to react to this letter either on this blog, by mail
or on any other <a href="http://typophile.com/node/82567">type centric
sites</a>.</small></p>
<p>========================================<br>
From:<br>
Open Source Publishing<br>
Rue du Fortstraat 5<br>
1060 Bruxelles, Belgium<br>
mail@ospublish.constantvzw.org</p>
<p>To:<br>
Monotype Imaging headquarters<br>
500 Unicorn Park Drive<br>
Woburn, MA USA 01801<br>
us@monotype.com</p>
<p>Brussels, 11 April 2011</p>
<p>Dear Monotype,</p>
<p>We are writing you because we just published Sans Guilt [1], which is
a reinterpretation of the Gill Sans released under an Open Font license.</p>
<p>We are OSP [2], a design collective based in Brussels that has been
working with Free and Open Source software since 2006.</p>
<p>We believe that the 71th anniversary of the death of Eric Gill implies
that his work is now in the public domain. To mark this anniversary we
decided to liberate the Gill Sans and make a free and open source
release of it.</p>
<p>We created three variants from different sources. One was scanned from
original drawings (Sans Guilt Drawing Based — DB), another from
hand-printed letterpress (Sans Guilt Lead Based — LB) and a third had a
digital file as a basis (Sans Guilt Monotype Based — MB). The work was
done in collaboration with students from the Royal College of Art in
London.</p>
<p>Our liberation of the Gill Sans raises legal and ethical questions
surrounding proprietary font software and works of typography that are
in the public domain. As designers, we can not answer those questions
theoretically so the Sans Guilt project is an attempt at finding
practical answers.</p>
<p>To us it seems that the central question about any font reinterpretation
is that of identifying and transforming material sources. Throughout
history fonts have always been adapted from previous renderings, often
transposing the design from one technology to another.</p>
<p>In order to explore this historical context and to understand how to
work with this complicated matter, we released Sans Guilt. The
DB-variant is based on original drawings by Eric Gill that we found in
the RCA library. The images were scanned and then traced using a custom
software to produce PostScript outlines. The LB-variant started from the
Gill Sans letterpress available at the RCA printshop. Students manually
printed the movable type and than scanned the result.</p>
<p>The third variant is possibly the most problematic. Because to us the
digital is material too, we wondered if we could use a digital source as
a starting point for liberating the Gill Sans. For the MB-variant we set
a text in a page layout software with a licensed Monotype Gill Sans.
This text was then turned into a bitmap and ran through a software that
converted each glyph back into a PostScript outline.</p>
<p>Although Gill Sans as a design work is in the public domain, the font
software that we used to create the material sources for our
reinterpretation is not. In the case of computer fonts there is a
blurring of boundaries between technology and visual design. By turning
the text into a bitmap image we did not reuse any part of the digital
information of the Monotype Gill Sans itself. We believe that the bitmap
is solely a representation of the design work of Eric Gill which we
consider to be in the public domain since 2010.</p>
<p>With the creation of Sans Guilt and by writing you this letter we are
trying to clarify the complicated legal matter around typographical
heritage, technology and intellectual property and we are looking
forward to discuss the implications with you.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>OSP</p>
<p>[1] http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/sans-guilt<br>
[2] http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/about</p>Asian Record, side B2011-04-21T14:58:00+02:002011-04-21T14:58:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-21:/fonts/asian-record-side-b.html<h1>Monday</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6221" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="<a href="\%22http://opendesign.asia/">opendesign.asia</a>"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg" title="DSC_0633"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6222" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Vi Mã Đăng installing OSP's posters at Café
3D."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg" title="P1060327"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Its akward, it's unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a
position of welcoming a happy accident, a <em>trong …</em></p><h1>Monday</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6221" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="<a href="\%22http://opendesign.asia/">opendesign.asia</a>"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg" title="DSC_0633"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6222" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Vi Mã Đăng installing OSP's posters at Café
3D."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg" title="P1060327"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Its akward, it's unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a
position of welcoming a happy accident, a <em>trong ruì có may</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0123.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0123.jpg" title="IMAG0123"></a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0665.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0665.jpg" title="DSC_0665"></a></p>
<p><em>(Tomorrow, not forget :<br>
— printer<br>
— walking<br>
— reformat usb sticks<br>
— osm account)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0666.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0666.jpg" title="DSC_0666"></a></p>
<p>We make a tour with GPS and cameras to chase stencil letters in
priority, and some hand-painted letters.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060378.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060378.jpg" title="P1060378"></a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6246" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Redrawn stencil letters, on lots of
walls"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060405.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060405.jpg" title="P1060405"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060368.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060368.jpg" title="P1060368"></a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6244" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Some less stencils, even if the reverse leftover of a vinyl
cutting operation is barely always throw away, it can be used also, and
is composed of islands and sea. Stickers are
everywhere."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060400.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060400.jpg" title="P1060400"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6245" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Maybe at a more high pace than on other places, machine vinyl
cutting letters make hand-drawn lettering goes
rare"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060408.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060408.jpg" title="P1060408"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Participants ask what is so interesting in those daily life pictures.
Pierre Marchand says that, this is exactly daily life as they say, but
if they learn how to look at it and how to change it, then it will
change radically this daily life/landscape.</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6220" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="When possible to wrap it, wrap it. Here the ceiling of a
taxi."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060228.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060228.jpg" title="P1060228"></a>[/caption]</p>
<h1>Tuesday</h1>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060330.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060330.jpg" title="P1060330"></a></p>
<p>We work with bare feet<br>
Maybe are we at the meristem (Méristème) where cells are not yet
specialised - where we are in danger<br>
The professor illustrator who draws beautiful curves so easily on
Coreldraw ask for more step by step operations<br>
(Tape, Ferrer maybe)<br>
Connecting with the city, with the territory<br>
- Bring a flat surface to be able to work less bended</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0817.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0817.jpg" title="DSC_0817"></a></p>
<p>We are making fonts based on previous day pictures. The morning we learn
how to use gimp/inkscape/fontforge to autotrace a letter from a picture
and how to produce a font.</p>
<h1>Wednesday</h1>
<p>"Unicode's normative definition is not as informative as it might be
(many of the Greek accents are "unified" with Latin accents that the
don't really look like, the result is that following Unicode slavishly
will yield the wrong glyph). So in some cases FontForge will use a
slightly different set of glyphs than the normative decomposition." —
Georges Williams (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/accented.html)</p>
<p><a href="http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/vietalphabet.html">http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/vietalphabet.html</a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6252" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="how to define the thickness and the curve of a tilde relative
to letters thickness in a non-typographic system as the DIN
one?"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0931.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0931.jpg" title="DSC_0931"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>"Too much excited to put the vietnamese diacritics everywhere, Nhan
Nguyễn and the 2 Pierres decide to spent the afternoon in the garden of
the "3D Café" in Can Tho under the endless loop of vn muzak
(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqtCvoBXck">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqtCvoBXck</a> seems a must) impossible
to avoid if you want to have access to an electrical outlet. Prince
prepared a py + qt script to inject automatically the needed<br>
AàÀảẢãÃáÁạẠăĂằẰẳẲẵẴắẮặẶâÂầẦẩẨẫẪấẤậẬ<br>
bBcCdDđĐeEèÈẻẺẽẼéÉẹẸêÊềỀểỂễỄếẾệỆfFgGhH<br>
iIìÌỉỈĩĨíÍịỊjJkKlLmMnN<br>
oOòÒỏỎõÕóÓọỌôÔồỒổỔỗỖốỐộỘơƠờỜởỞỡỠớỚợỢ<br>
pPqQrRsStTuUùÙủỦũŨúÚụỤưƯừỪửỬữỮứỨựỰ<br>
vVwWxXyYỳỲỷỶỹỸýÝỵỴzZ<br>
Nhan propose some ways to draw them and Pierreh lost himself in the
osp-foundry to find the source files. Organically, after editing most of
our fonts, all more or less experimental in some way, we've been
attracted by our old chap Din, and ends up by editing most of the
diacritics to make them fits best with the Din principles (from what
font came the previous ones?). The night falls suddenly
-near-equator-style- without finishing, but with all the actors ready
for tomorrow's first activity of the morning : the "up, more down, a bit
less at the right, slightly to the left" collective game of positioning
ready-to-use component diacritics. Back to the hotel with a discussions
about the iterative but programmatic process of producing a font, itself
a program, a script in some way, or more mathematically,
factorisation... Let's go for another motor ride in town, now."</p>
<h1>Thursday</h1>
<p>Morning: We are practicing LiteralDraw in groups. Participants draw
letters.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0821.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0821.jpg" title="DSC_0821"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0829.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0829.jpg" title="DSC_0829"></a></p>
<p>Afternoon:<br>
We take advantage of the crazy fluidity of riding a motorbike in the
city. Some of the participants ride their motorbike and go draw letters
in the city, communicating by phone their position and movements to the
ones staying at the working space. Those ones report the instructions in
LiteralDraw to make letters in order to make a complete font.</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6254" align="alignnone" width="266"
caption="Chien Phan Quoc leaving for his first road
session"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0960.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0960.jpg" title="DSC_0960"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6259" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Lilly Nguyễn on her patient, smily and persistant work of
multitranslation"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0001.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0001.jpg" title="DSC_0001"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060546.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060546.jpg" title="P1060546"></a></p>
<p>First series of letters ended up being quite easy to do -- only skeleton
of letters, instructions given by phone were not so clear. Second
series: we want a real letter with skin and flesh, why not serifs or
stencil letters?</p>
<p>We add a
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29">LOGO</a>/Turtle
mode to LiteralDraw.</p>
<h1>Friday</h1>
<p>Chien lost a complex LiteralDraw drawing yesterday for he didn't save
it. Discussions around the missing fishing net when you quit without
saving. Is LD a software like the others, or a more rough tool, an
in-between commandline and GUI tool?</p>
<p>LD was modified yesterday in two interesting ways.</p>
<p>For an even more "direct" or "straightforward" mode : no need for an end
anymore.<br>
So</p>
<pre><code>line 40 60
</code></pre>
<p>will not wait for a</p>
<pre><code>end
</code></pre>
<p>to draw the line (of course the end instruction is still very useful to
separate shapes)</p>
<p>For our rides in the city hunting letters shapes, we introduced the turn
instruction, with right, straight, left arguments, the distance and a
nuance (a deviation from the main direction)</p>
<p>Maybe more important is the introduction of variables, with the var
instruction! So we're now able to write</p>
<pre><code>change turn tourne
var 150 unpeu
var -10 presque
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code>tourne R unpeu presque
</code></pre>
<p>which is not real natural language programming, but which sounds quite
poetical for me.</p>
<p>Pushing it a bit, to go to typed variables to be able to</p>
<pre><code>tourne àdroite unpeu presque
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>tourne à-droite un-peu presque
</code></pre>
<p>or even</p>
<pre><code>tourne à droite un peu presque
</code></pre>
<p>using non-breaking spaces between "un" et "peu" as a trick. So we
introduced number and string as replacements for var. LD is more and
more deeply connected to language.</p>
<p>The extention of OSP-DIN is a neverending work.</p>
<p>Sometimes we've used previous week's dictionary</p>
<pre><code>change line dòng
change stroke bút
change end trở—lại
change move di—chuyển
change cubic cong
change close đong
change fill điền—vào
change transform biến—đổi
change text văn—bản
change font kiểu—mâu
biến—đổi 0.6 0 0 0.6 0 -300
bút 180 0 200 1
điền—vào 250 100 100
di—chuyển 135.00 732.00
cong 134.00 691.00 178.00 660.00 241.00 659.00
cong 290.00 661.00 328.00 701.00 328.00 755.00
cong 378.00 665.00 441.00 643.00 521.00 677.00
cong 524.00 681.00 576.00 759.00 497.00 889.00
cong 496.67 891.67 411.67 960.00 330.00 986.67
cong 230.00 926.67 163.33 845.00 133.33 735.00
trở—lại
đong
di—chuyển 135.00 732.00
kiểu—mâu 30 0 0 Alfphabet
văn—bản we
</code></pre>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6256" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="With the golden frog at the
back"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0141.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0141.jpg" title="DSC_0141"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0191.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0191.jpg" title="DSC_0191"></a></p>
<pre><code>Lilly Nguyễn Thong Tran
Thanh Tri Loi Kim
Trung Tran Minh Ngân Trương
Dat Huynh Phat Nam Pham
Quoc Nam Chien Phan Quoc
Vansau Duong Kiet Le
Lê Quốc Tuấn Xuan Phuong
Nhan Nguyễn Minh Đương Nguyễn
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/themes/osp/images/OIF.jpg"> </p>
<p><small>La participation OSP de l'Open Design Week a été rendue possible
grâce au soutien de l'OIF</small></p>
<p><link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Allan:bold" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link>
<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=VT323" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link></p>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }<br></br>
h1, h2, h3 {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }<br></br>
code {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }<br></br>
pre {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }<br></br>
p, ul, code {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }<br></br>
ul {: .size-medium .wp-image-6221 }</p>
</style>It Looks Like We Are Sending A Letter2011-04-15T15:33:00+02:002011-04-15T15:33:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-15:/fonts/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"><br>
<small>Brussels, April 15 @ 3:45 pm -- stay tuned for full story in 2
weeks</small></p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"><br>
<small>Brussels, April 15 @ 3:45 pm -- stay tuned for full story in 2
weeks</small></p>Spring font OSP day2011-03-21T21:37:00+01:002011-03-21T21:37:00+01:00Pierretag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-21:/fonts/spring-font-osp-day.html<p>Spring cleaning with a long awaited operation : the release of our <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/osp-din/">OSP
DIN</a>.</p>
<p>Spring listing our current favorite fonts, in use for projects or
planned to be used :</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Bentham&subset=latin">Bentham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/copse">Copse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/osp-din/">OSP Din
Engshrift</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Serif">Droid Serif</a> and
<a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Sans">Sans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/6-sorts-mill-goudy">Sorts Mill
Goudy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Inconsolata">Inconsolata</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.linuxlibertine.org/">Libertine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/download">Latin
Modern</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Molengo&subset=latin">Molengo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/list?family=PT+Serif&subset=latin">PT
Serif</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Puritan&subset=latin">Puritan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Quicksand">Quicksand …</a></li></ul><p>Spring cleaning with a long awaited operation : the release of our <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/osp-din/">OSP
DIN</a>.</p>
<p>Spring listing our current favorite fonts, in use for projects or
planned to be used :</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Bentham&subset=latin">Bentham</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/copse">Copse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/osp-din/">OSP Din
Engshrift</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Serif">Droid Serif</a> and
<a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Sans">Sans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/6-sorts-mill-goudy">Sorts Mill
Goudy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Inconsolata">Inconsolata</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.linuxlibertine.org/">Libertine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/download">Latin
Modern</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Molengo&subset=latin">Molengo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/list?family=PT+Serif&subset=latin">PT
Serif</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Puritan&subset=latin">Puritan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Quicksand">Quicksand</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ume-font/releases/">Ume</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/univers-else/">Univers-Else</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Vollkorn&subset=latin">Vollkorn</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Spring switching on this blog layout, featuring our new <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.workshop.rca.git;a=snapshot;h=2279b9774d5de40fb894447827db5a59f81f3750;sf=tgz">Sans Guilt
fonts</a>
from the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/not-gillty">RCA
workshop</a>. Two
versions are used, with some overlaying for the titles emphasising on
the hidden dimension of kernings. The body text rendering is provided by
the fidel Latin Modern Roman, accompanying the TeX project from the
start.</p>the Univers Else is yours2011-02-08T14:28:00+01:002011-02-08T14:28:00+01:00Antoinetag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-08:/fonts/the-univers-else-is-yours.html<p><strong><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-univers-else-is-yours/attachment/exif_jpeg_picture-2"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5809" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/600x450-R00118961.jpg" title="Univers Else is yours"><br>
</a>Fresh</strong>
new display case for <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/univers-else/" title="Univers Else">Univers
Else</a>
font, with original Crickx vinyl lettering.<br>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-univers-else-is-yours/attachment/exif_jpeg_picture-3"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5809" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/600x450-R0011892.jpg" title="Dead drop"></a><br>
Check out Speculoos and OSP's <a href="http://deaddrops.com/" title="dead drop">dead
drop</a> and get Univers Else.</p><p><strong><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-univers-else-is-yours/attachment/exif_jpeg_picture-2"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5809" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/600x450-R00118961.jpg" title="Univers Else is yours"><br>
</a>Fresh</strong>
new display case for <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/univers-else/" title="Univers Else">Univers
Else</a>
font, with original Crickx vinyl lettering.<br>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-univers-else-is-yours/attachment/exif_jpeg_picture-3"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5809" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/600x450-R0011892.jpg" title="Dead drop"></a><br>
Check out Speculoos and OSP's <a href="http://deaddrops.com/" title="dead drop">dead
drop</a> and get Univers Else.</p>POLSKU UPDATE2011-02-07T14:34:00+01:002011-02-07T14:34:00+01:00Sebtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-07:/fonts/polsku-update.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/polsku-update/attachment/thanks-paulo"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5784" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/thanks-paulo.png" title="thanks-paulo"></a><br>
Thanks to Paulo Silva aka nitrofurano, Polsku has now a Latin 1
diacritics<br>
and ligatures set. The new version is available for download on <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/seb-font/">OSP
Foundry</a>.</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/polsku-update/attachment/thanks-paulo"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5784" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/thanks-paulo.png" title="thanks-paulo"></a><br>
Thanks to Paulo Silva aka nitrofurano, Polsku has now a Latin 1
diacritics<br>
and ligatures set. The new version is available for download on <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/seb-font/">OSP
Foundry</a>.</p>Lower cases2011-02-02T23:22:00+01:002011-02-02T23:22:00+01:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-02:/fonts/lower-cases.html<p>Hello this is Antoine, new intern at OSP. Glad to meet you.<br>
OSP-DIN is now ready to go through meta pleins et délies
experimentations.<br>
<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5707" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/e-din.png" title="e-din"></p><p>Hello this is Antoine, new intern at OSP. Glad to meet you.<br>
OSP-DIN is now ready to go through meta pleins et délies
experimentations.<br>
<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5707" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/e-din.png" title="e-din"></p>As cool as it can be2011-01-14T19:05:00+01:002011-01-14T19:05:00+01:00Pierre_Mtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-01-14:/fonts/as-cool-as-it-can-be.html<p>Fonzie benefits of the preparation for the next iteration of the
(?)-annual Constant main event. With
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/">Tesseract</a> (an OCR program and
library), there's a new friend around, the first meeting with
<a href="http://potrace.sourceforge.net/">Potrace</a> was quite impressive, we
can't wait to see what will happen
next.<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/as-cool-as-it-can-be/attachment/screen-shot-2011-01-14-at-16-24-37"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5592" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-01-14-at-16.24.37.png" title="fonzie + tesseract"></a></p>
<p>You can dowload the source code …</p><p>Fonzie benefits of the preparation for the next iteration of the
(?)-annual Constant main event. With
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/">Tesseract</a> (an OCR program and
library), there's a new friend around, the first meeting with
<a href="http://potrace.sourceforge.net/">Potrace</a> was quite impressive, we
can't wait to see what will happen
next.<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/as-cool-as-it-can-be/attachment/screen-shot-2011-01-14-at-16-24-37"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5592" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-01-14-at-16.24.37.png" title="fonzie + tesseract"></a></p>
<p>You can dowload the source code of Fonzie with Git on the osp repository
with the command</p>
<p><code>git clone http://git.constantvzw.org/osp.git</code></p>We are not here to be correct2010-11-16T17:15:00+01:002010-11-16T17:15:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-16:/fonts/we-are-not-here-to-be-correct.html<p>Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/">Manufactura
Independente</a> have made PropCourier Sans, the
display and identity font for <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/">Libre Graphics
Magazine</a> ... a super derivative of our
own
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a>
("We are not here to be polite")!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png" title="propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265"></a><br>
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)</p>
<p>Via:
<a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html">http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html</a></p><p>Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/">Manufactura
Independente</a> have made PropCourier Sans, the
display and identity font for <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/">Libre Graphics
Magazine</a> ... a super derivative of our
own
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a>
("We are not here to be polite")!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png" title="propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265"></a><br>
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)</p>
<p>Via:
<a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html">http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html</a></p>Hello I'm NANCY ♥2010-03-28T14:29:00+02:002010-03-28T14:29:00+02:00Femketag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-28:/fonts/hello-im-nancy.html<p>3 days, 327 kilometers, 6 liters of <a href="http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/">Cube Cola
Libre</a> and 54 commits later
...<br>
Please meet <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/#nancy">NANCY</a> (a
new OSP-software project), download the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/#download">Dingbat Liberation font
(DLFo)</a> and much more
at:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1330"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1330-osp25.jpg"></a><br>
Re-thinking Miscellaneous Symbols: <em>Flêche grasse à pointe arondie vers
la droite</em>?</p>
<!--more-->
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1274"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1274-p1070343.jpg"></a><br>
Taking a fragment …</p><p>3 days, 327 kilometers, 6 liters of <a href="http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/">Cube Cola
Libre</a> and 54 commits later
...<br>
Please meet <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/#nancy">NANCY</a> (a
new OSP-software project), download the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/#download">Dingbat Liberation font
(DLFo)</a> and much more
at:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy/">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1330"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1330-osp25.jpg"></a><br>
Re-thinking Miscellaneous Symbols: <em>Flêche grasse à pointe arondie vers
la droite</em>?</p>
<!--more-->
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1274"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1274-p1070343.jpg"></a><br>
Taking a fragment of the UTF-8 plane into our hands</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1307"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1307-p1070386.jpg"></a><br>
Serving liters of Cube Cola Cuba Libre</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1306"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1306-p1070439.jpg"></a><br>
The début of a new OSP-software project: NANCY ♥</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1294"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/dingbats-liberation-fest-3/large/1294-p1070410.jpg"></a><br>
The OSP-frog made it all the way to Nancy</p>Dingbats in a monkey2010-02-25T18:33:00+01:002010-02-25T18:33:00+01:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-25:/fonts/dingbats-in-a-monkey.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DLF-poster.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4062" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DLF-poster.png" title="DLF-poster"></a></p>
<p>The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy from March 25
to May 6.</p>
<p>Invited by the <a href="http://www.mymonkey.fr/">my.monkey</a> gallery, OSP
présentera quelques uns de ses travaux et ouvrira un nouvel atelier
Dingbats Liberation Fest into the grid.</p>
<!--more-->
<p>Le projet de fonte collaborative Dingbats Liberation Fest propose de
redessiner les …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DLF-poster.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4062" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DLF-poster.png" title="DLF-poster"></a></p>
<p>The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy from March 25
to May 6.</p>
<p>Invited by the <a href="http://www.mymonkey.fr/">my.monkey</a> gallery, OSP
présentera quelques uns de ses travaux et ouvrira un nouvel atelier
Dingbats Liberation Fest into the grid.</p>
<!--more-->
<p>Le projet de fonte collaborative Dingbats Liberation Fest propose de
redessiner les caractères Dingbats et Miscellaneous Symbols d'Unicode.<br>
Après 2 premiers workshop à
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/live/dingbat-liberation-fest-populated-fonts">Bruxelles</a>
(festival VJ12) et
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/live/dingbat-liberation-fest-ii">Utrecht</a>
(CASCO), the font already gathers more than 70 ! characters.<br>
Passez ajouter votre version !</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4062" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/sofar.png" title="sofar"></p>
<p>Parmi nos (re)découvertes, les noms de caratères Unicode en français :<br>
http://www.unicode.org/fr/charts/charindex.html<br>
❈ : GROS ÉTINCELLEMENT<br>
❛ : GUILLEMET DE FANTAISIE EN FORME DE GROSSE VIRGULE SIMPLE CULBUTÉE</p>Cimatics landscapes2009-11-09T16:33:00+01:002009-11-09T16:33:00+01:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-11-09:/fonts/cimatics-landscapes.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Cimatics-preview01.png"><img alt="Cimatics-preview01" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3560" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Cimatics-preview01.png" title="Cimatics-preview01"></a><br>
Earlier this year, we were invited to work on the identity of the
Brussels-based <a href="http://cimatics.com">Cimatics A\V Platform</a>.</p>
<p>Cimatics is a framework for initiating and facilitating audiovisual
productions, events, publications and workshops.<br>
To launch the new identity, we developed a new family of fonts! We hope
you're ready for the …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Cimatics-preview01.png"><img alt="Cimatics-preview01" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3560" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Cimatics-preview01.png" title="Cimatics-preview01"></a><br>
Earlier this year, we were invited to work on the identity of the
Brussels-based <a href="http://cimatics.com">Cimatics A\V Platform</a>.</p>
<p>Cimatics is a framework for initiating and facilitating audiovisual
productions, events, publications and workshops.<br>
To launch the new identity, we developed a new family of fonts! We hope
you're ready for the libre dingbats attack URW Gothic L dusty noisy text
bloc jam?</p>
<p>We'll go more into the design process and release these fonts at two
live events later this month. Stay tuned.</p>
<p>☔☺☔ ✈ ❍ ✌</p>Adjustment of a bone under the skin2009-06-25T13:20:00+02:002009-06-25T13:20:00+02:00Pierretag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-06-25:/fonts/adjustment-of-a-bone-under-the-skin.html<p>Last LGM and its typographic excitements has brought the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/din-4">DIN - Das Ist
Norm - Loch Ness project</a>
to the surface of the Saint Laurent river again in a discussion with
Denis Jacquerye from <a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/">Deja Vu</a>. Back in
Brussels, we meet Denis in the temporary OSP Studio at Rue de la Senne …</p><p>Last LGM and its typographic excitements has brought the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/din-4">DIN - Das Ist
Norm - Loch Ness project</a>
to the surface of the Saint Laurent river again in a discussion with
Denis Jacquerye from <a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/">Deja Vu</a>. Back in
Brussels, we meet Denis in the temporary OSP Studio at Rue de la Senne
to begin to define on what criteria and with which tool to work (name
dropping : stroke parts - stroke fonts in FontForge - svg fonts in
Inkscape - Metafont - ...). So we browse through some of the pictures we
brought back from the DIN archive.</p>
<p>From the different versions we have seen in the archives, it seems that
the main DIN letters models are based on solo strokes drawn on a grid at
small size. It was the regular usage for most of the texts in the
engineering environment. The thickness of the tool used (pencil, drawing
pen, ball nose mill) defined the boldness of the strokes and the round
or less round shape of their extremities, like flesh on bones.<br>
<!--more--><br>
Later this was also applied to larger lettering, so strokes became
surfaces and the drawing began to be defined by the contour, by its
skin. Simple geometric extrapolation from strokes were operated, using
the unit of the grid as unit for the thickness of the stroke, to
normalize sizes. In the oblique letters, the angle of the shape at the
end of strokes became angled and goes farther than the regular width,
defined by the grid. So, as these letter parts could be less open in
their 'fill' version than in their 'stroke' one, the core was moved a
little towards the inside of the glyph to fit in the grid.</p>
<p>That shift from calligraphy to typography is traditionaly hidden in the
progressive adaptations by generations of letterers. But in the case of
the DIN lettering, as a norm, the movement must be described in detail.
And that effort produced the beautiful figure that appeared before
Harrisson and me two year ago on a screen of the library of the DIN
Institute...</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/din-skin-bones.jpg"><img alt="din-skin-bones" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3114" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/din-skin-bones.jpg" title="din-skin-bones"></a></p>Libre Fonts2009-06-07T10:40:00+02:002009-06-07T10:40:00+02:00Femketag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-06-07:/fonts/libre-fonts.html<p>The <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</a> is preparing a
brand new site (an idea of what's in store:
<a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki</a>)
and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to
name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?<br>
<!--more--><br>
<strong><em>Free Fonts</em></strong> sounds nice, but risks to blur with …</p><p>The <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font Library</a> is preparing a
brand new site (an idea of what's in store:
<a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki</a>)
and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to
name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?<br>
<!--more--><br>
<strong><em>Free Fonts</em></strong> sounds nice, but risks to blur with gratis (and
non-free) fonts promoted under the same term. Others are all for using
it because even if confusing, <em>Freedom</em> is important. There are many
arguments against the use of the word <strong><em>FLOSS Fonts</em></strong>: it is an
acronym, a software term (there is no consensus about whether fonts are
software), and it sounds ugly. The software-argument works against
<strong><em>Free Software Fonts</em></strong> too, of course. <strong><em>Open Fonts</em></strong> mixes with
<em>Open Type</em> (which again has nothing to do with their license) and is
felt to be ambiguous and evasive. But for the same reason, others are in
favour of the term because <em>Open</em> is more inclusive and alludes to the
'open endedness' of a font or process. The current proposal is to use
<strong><em>Libre Fonts</em></strong>, even when it introduces an unfamiliar term to English
speakers and would need some explanation.</p>
<p>OSP likes this nicely awkward cross-language invention so we have
adopted the term <strong><em>Libre Fonts</em></strong> and renamed our tags. We hope it
sticks around.</p>
<p>Thread on the openfontlibrary list:
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-May/002097.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-May/002097.html</a></p>Update your NotCourier !2009-05-17T18:23:00+02:002009-05-17T18:23:00+02:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-05-17:/fonts/update-your-notcourier.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/notcouriersans_111.png"><img alt="notcouriersans_111" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2629" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/notcouriersans_111.png" title="notcouriersans_111"></a><br>
A new version of the impolite NotCourierSans is available on the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/411">Open
Font Library</a> :
NotCourierSans 1.1</p>
<!--more-->
<p>As reminder, NotCourierSans, is a re-interpretation of Nimbus Mono whose
design began in Wroclaw at the occasion of the Libre Graphics Meeting
2008.<br>
For more detailed information explore the files included in the …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/notcouriersans_111.png"><img alt="notcouriersans_111" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2629" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/notcouriersans_111.png" title="notcouriersans_111"></a><br>
A new version of the impolite NotCourierSans is available on the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/411">Open
Font Library</a> :
NotCourierSans 1.1</p>
<!--more-->
<p>As reminder, NotCourierSans, is a re-interpretation of Nimbus Mono whose
design began in Wroclaw at the occasion of the Libre Graphics Meeting
2008.<br>
For more detailed information explore the files included in the font
package (FONTLOG.txt) or go through the Font Info section (Font Log and
Comment) in the font (open the font file in FontForge and go to Font
Info in the Element menu).</p>
<p>This NotCourierSans 1.1 has been expanded by a work on cyrillic glyphs.<br>
<a href="http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com">Paulo Silva</a> aka nitrofurano, is
programmer and graphic designer in Porto. He removed serifs from
cyrillic characters, removed all kerning pairs and replaced the repeated
glyphes with references (accented characters and alike).</p>
<p>I took the opportunity to clarify bonus glyphs position.<br>
NotCourierSans 1.1 contains 2 ornamental glyphs encoded in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters#Private_use_characters">private
use
characters</a>:<br>
- in U+E000, the OSP frog mascot<br>
- in U+E001, the 75 ligature added during an OSP workshop in <a href="http://www.le75.be">Le
75</a>, École Supérieure des Arts de l'Image, on
Wednesday 17 December.<br>
These sugars are accessible through the Ornament Open Type features.<br>
You can test it in <a href="http://fontmatrix.net">Fontmatrix</a></p>
<p>Super thanks to Nicolas Spalinger who helped me to build a fresh new
package following <a href="http://oflb.open-fonts.org">the new Open Font Library model
package</a> (foo-open-font-sources-1.0.tar.gz)</p>
<p>Super thanks to <a href="http://www.oep-h.com">Pierre Marchand</a> for his support
and advices, particularly for the Font Info and special glyphs
encoding.<br>
Very soon a new post about <a href="http://fontmatrix.net">Fontmatrix</a> and how
to make a font talkative.</p>
<p>merci <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/?lang=en">LGM 2009</a> for
the possibility and idees around fonts that it sows.</p>
<p>Look at the recent appearances of NotCourierSans
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-ecstasy-of-influence">here</a>,
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/jaz">here</a> ou
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/type/le-sale-boulot-with-notcourier">ici</a>.</p>
<p>Please update your .fonts folder !</p>New work on Fonts at W3C2009-05-13T08:44:00+02:002009-05-13T08:44:00+02:00Femketag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-05-13:/fonts/new-work-on-fonts-at-w3c.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/conversation/even-when-you-are-done-you-are-not-done">Chris
Lilley</a>
writes: "W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts
on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for
feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or
interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly
archived …</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/conversation/even-when-you-are-done-you-are-not-done">Chris
Lilley</a>
writes: "W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts
on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for
feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or
interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly
archived mailing list www-style@w3.org."</p>
<p>Read his overview and respond on the CREATE mailinglist:<br>
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-May/001752.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-May/001752.html<br>
</a></p>
<p>(it's interesting to see how a relatively modest event such as
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">LGM</a>, continues to produce waves
in many related domains)</p>Libertinage2008-11-02T23:03:00+01:002008-11-02T23:03:00+01:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-11-02:/fonts/libertinage.html<p>The Libertinage font set we developed for FLOSS+Art book is available on
the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/322">Open Font Library</a>
for several days.</p>
<p>We built Libertinage by copying and pasting parts of Linux Libertine
glyphs or simply by all-turning glyphs.<br>
There are 27 variations, one for each latin letter in the alphabet + the …</p><p>The Libertinage font set we developed for FLOSS+Art book is available on
the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/322">Open Font Library</a>
for several days.</p>
<p>We built Libertinage by copying and pasting parts of Linux Libertine
glyphs or simply by all-turning glyphs.<br>
There are 27 variations, one for each latin letter in the alphabet + the
'Full' version, containing all modifications.</p>
<p>Un petit goût nonante.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp_-_libertinage1.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1313" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp_-_libertinage1.png" title="osp_-_libertinage1"></a></p>NotCourier-sans nouvelle is arrived2008-09-07T15:52:00+02:002008-09-07T15:52:00+02:00luditag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-09-07:/fonts/notcourier-sans-nouvelle-is-arrived.html<p>A new release of the NotCourier-sans is now available
<a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/309" title="here">here</a>, with its
bold.<br>
The OSP frog, the IJ, ij, numero and trademark ligatures are now encoded
in the discretionary ligatures.<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-3.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-621" height="88" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-3-300x88.png" title="NotCourier-sans-Bold preview" width="300"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-1.png"><br>
</a></p><p>A new release of the NotCourier-sans is now available
<a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/309" title="here">here</a>, with its
bold.<br>
The OSP frog, the IJ, ij, numero and trademark ligatures are now encoded
in the discretionary ligatures.<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-3.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-621" height="88" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-3-300x88.png" title="NotCourier-sans-Bold preview" width="300"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/picture-1.png"><br>
</a></p>