Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “text”

The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited | Beat Stamm

Font hinting is an opportunity to get on-screen text rendering as close to the art of printing as the available screen technologies allow.

Text Rendering Hates You

gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

Can Fonts Really Help Those With Dyslexia? | | Eye on Design

eyeondesign.aiga.org/can-fonts-really-help-those-with-dyslexia/

As a child, a cat always became a bat. My name was not Maddy but Mubby. Stranger still, a dog would often take the shape of a bog. My German mother would sit me at the kitchen table and tell me to read aloud from a German book; although I was fluent in the language and loved stories, the exercise was painfully boring

Text Splitting Causes Screen Reader Problems - Axess Lab

axesslab.com/text-splitting/

Why the rise of emoji might not spell the end of civilization

the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hopeful-face-emoji/amp/

Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents

worrydream.com/Tangle/

About txt.fyi

txt.fyi/about/

This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web. Write something, hit publish, and it's live. There's no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital. The only practical way for anyone to find out about a posting is if the author links to it elsewhere.

readbeyond/aeneas

github.com/readbeyond/aeneas

aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment) http://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/

A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode – Nathan Reed’s coding blog

reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/

slap-editor/slap: Sublime-like terminal-based text editor

github.com/slap-editor/slap

RiTa — a software toolkit for computational literature

rednoise.org/rita/

Quill - Your powerful, rich text editor

quilljs.com/

Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API, it is completely customizable to fit any need.

Haiku Finder

mrfeinberg.com/haikufinder/

Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil

spacemacs.org/

Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil

Telescopic Text

telescopictext.org/

An extension of telescopictext.com, providing tools for writing expanding narratives, and a collection of texts

Ace - The High Performance Code Editor for the Web

ace.c9.io/

lunr.js - A bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright

lunrjs.com/

knsv/mermaid: Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown

github.com/knsv/mermaid

mermaid - Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown

graydon2 | always bet on text

graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.

Just Another Test Text Generator

justanotherfoundry.com/generator

Lorem Ipsum-like generating text that uses only selected glyphs and kerning pairs