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tobr

14,326karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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That’s not true. I’ve bought fonts on Future Fonts and I received a download link to get the files. I think it’s fundamentally an honor system.
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Because it allows the effect of the curvature to be customized by hand for each letter shape by a skilled designer. Fonts like italics, bold or condensed can also be approximated with simple geometric…
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Hug of death, it seems. https://hex.xyz/news/2/ has some info about the font.
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This is about how each character adapts to the radius, not the path itself. Each character is tweaked so the design holds up as it’s curved. I don’t think you have tools to do that.
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As a complete layman, it seems obvious that it should be hard? Like, text is a type of graphic that needs to be coherent both in its detail and its large structure, and there’s a very small amount of …
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The changes in the Aladdin and Lion King stills surely can’t be accidental side effects? The Aladdin shot especially looks like they deliberately shifted it to a different time of day. Could there hav…
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Hardly. Its actual mission seems to be: ”A no-noise email roundup of all the must-read Nintendo news”. I’m sure it did exactly that for its reader. It might not the best article to submit to HN though…
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No backend cost is a benefit for you, not for your users. Walking around with your phone out with an app open is inconvenient and a distraction, and a battery drain. Downloading a special app just for…
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I understand all this, but it still feels like a solution in search of a problem. Why does it matter that it is decentralized? There are simpler ways to reasonably prove you were there. Scan a QR code…
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Interesting from a technical point of view. But the real problem to solve here is buried in this throwaway at the end, and it even suggests that this is entirely the wrong tech for the job: > So th…
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Holy hypertext, this is a hard-to-read post.
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That part of the title is in quotes. It’s paraphrasing how the guy expressed it to point out the absurdness of being asked to remove a face mask when you’re not wearing a face mask.
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I wonder how it might affect people with medical conditions that make their faces look unusual. If the law only applies to pornography, most people in that situation might not want to go talk to a jou…
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An easy way to do this that I’ve used when resizing images in photoshop is to first scale it to the closest larger integer scaling factor of the target output using nearest neighbor, and then scale th…
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