Eli Heuer @eliheuer Twitter profile

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I'm still not very proficient with it yet, but I'm having fun making these UI mockups in Figma.

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@eliheuer

5 years

I kinda wish fonts came on cartridges. Like, if you could buy/sell/trade used fonts at a store like GameStop, that would be fun.

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@eliheuer

2 years

✨My first font NFT is now minting on Zora! It is a specimen of the alpha release, so think of it like a rookie card for a typeface. The font is open source and licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Mint link:

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@eliheuer

2 years

Type design in a few years.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

11 months

The Satie graphic is just the font Ogg Regular with the i changed to Ogg Regular Italic, plus a little bit of tracking...

Ogg – Sharp Type

www.sharptype.co

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still cant get my mind around the fact some horrid little shit just took Eric Hu's very well known Satie graphic from 10 years ago, fucked it up a bit because they're a talentless cunt with no imagination who couldnt have made it in the first place, and launched a consumer brand

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I'm a dad!

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

1 year

Good taste is 100% real and people without it LOVE to tell themselves it's all BS.

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@ThePatrickPryor

1 year

Always thought he was a fraud

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

OS: Linux (Elementary OS) WM: i3-gaps Software: Runebender

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

2020 is gonna be the year of the Linux desktop. I CAN FEEL IT.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

256x128 pixel 1-bit (2 colors) calligraphy, drawn by me with a Wacom tablet.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

كن فيكون Drawn with hyperbezier curves (no manual off-curve point placement). Screenshot: Mac OS 11 (Mac Mini M1 16GB) Software: Runebender License: Apache-2.0 UFO Source File:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Very happy with how these pens I carved today turned out. Specifically, the one on the far right is, I think, the best pen I have made yet!

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

New work in progress typeface from me. It's an Arabic monospace designed for use in text editors and terminals. The Latin has the same stroke contrast orientation as the Arabic. Name: Hasubi Mono (حاسوبي مونو) License: OFL v1.1 Git Repository:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

The PineBook Pro arrived today. It's beautiful & came in minimal packing with a single 8.5x11 sheet instruction manual. I pushed the power button and it just worked. It cost $200. I plan on replacing my 2013 macAir with it as my daily laptop. ✨💖✨ Thanks @thepine64 #pinebookpro

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I replaced my mother's malware infested Windows 10 PC with a 4GB Raspberry Pi. Everything works including wifi, printing, and full screen streaming video with sound.

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@eliheuer

4 years

My workspace today.🦾

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@eliheuer

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

@patio11 Lower class guy from the US here, most people I know are desperate for steady work and decent pay. I've worked in the gig economy(bike food delivery), the flexibility is pointless without better pay, we just spend our free time dealing with being poor.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Sure, Glyphs has Dark Mode, but FontForge has Mint Mode.💚

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

This was one of the best talks I've ever seen at a design conference. 👏 #typographics2019

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I'm building a Linux PC tonight for using Blender and maybe some machine learning stuff. This computer cost way less than a Mac, is way more powerful, can be upgraded and repaired by myself, and putting everything together is fun and educational. Specs:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Me walking into a WeWork:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

Some pens I carved from bamboo I found on nature walks. I’m working on a blog post about how pen making for calligraphy is similar to tool making for Unix systems, and how that informs how I think about font editor design.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

Happy New Year! 2023 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop for type design, I'm sure of it this time! 🎊

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Today I got a design book from a local bookstore for the first time since the pandemic hit the US. 😇

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

I worked on Hasubi Mono Latin Regular a bit today. I'm very happy with the new redrawn lowercase "r".

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

Using Xmonad is a great way to learn Haskell. Everything is configured in a .hs file which can be recompiled at any time by typing MOD+q. I'm starting from nothing and writing my own config, making sure I understand everything I add. Here is what I have so far(23 Lines of code!).

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

“Not only with Autodesk but also with other companies, we keep requesting improvements. However, it takes time for those improvements to make it to proprietary software. We expect faster improvements by using open source software.” ✨💪Hell yes, nice:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

Gamers call their home PC setups “battlestations”, and I really dislike that term. Here is my “peacestation”.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

10 months

This is a huge problem with font engineering. Obviously a lot of people want to gatekeep this knowledge, but the the whole computing and design world suffers because so much of this knowledge is only in private chats and things like Notion.

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10 months

It saddens me how much knowledge is locked away in Discord servers, and will absolutely vanish within 5yrs Forums from 20yrs ago still show up as useful for me from time to time

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I'm starting to take this font thing seriously.

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@eliheuer

1 year

iPython for 3 year olds

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I drew this full baby-teeth-like uppercase character set using only Runebender. 🥳

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

I can't believe it, this minted out! I want to see more collaboration and working-in-the-open in FOSS font development, but the incentives aren't fully there in web2. Maybe this model could finally fix the incentive problems around large-scale collaborative font development!?

Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

✨My first font NFT is now minting on Zora! It is a specimen of the alpha release, so think of it like a rookie card for a typeface. The font is open source and licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Mint link:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Am I the only one who thinks transitioning to a sustainable economic system would be fun and rewarding? We can do this.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

You can copy drawings from Runebender and paste them into a text editor as Rust code. This is how I did the new pen tool icon that was merged today.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

fontforge is solarpunk

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

🚧 work in progress 🚧 Font: Hasubi Mono (حاسوبي مونو) License: OFL v1.1 Git Repo:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I found a bamboo stalk in my friend's yard last weekend and carved it into a calligraphy pen(قلم) using a pocket knife. I like this tool for the same reason I like libre/open-source art tools. It's simple, free, abundant, fully customizable, and aesthetically pleasing.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

Back on my BS. Not gonna let the type design on Arch Linux dream die.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I made some updates to this repo over the weekend, it’s one of the first fonts I made using Runebender and I want to try adding it to Google Fonts this year. 🔗

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

doing type design in animal crossing.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I haven't been tweeting lately, but I do at least one page of calligraphy per day with the same naive energy. I'm still terrible, but getting better.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Testing Blender on a M1 Mac Mini. Would a metaball tool like this be worth making for a font editor? I want to try making one for Runebender.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Good design: 0. is innovative 1. makes a product useful 2. is aesthetic 3. makes a product understandable 4. is unobtrusive 5. is honest 6. is long-lasting 7. is thorough down to the last detail 8. is environmentally friendly 9. is as little design as possible —Dieter Rams

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

The multi-script font I'm working on uses the stroke contrast from the Arabic for Latin, what people call “reverse contrast” if the font is only Latin. This allows “m” to be more condensed with less distortion because the Arabic has narrow vertical and tall horizontal strokes.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I'm working hard on a secret project so I haven't been tweeting, but here is some cringy calligraphy practice from this weekend. I make my own pens (قلم) from bamboo I find around Seattle.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I'm sew proud of my wife, she started making masks for friends about 3 weeks ago, and somehow got a work-from-home job making 100's of them.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Idea for a vlog series. I'm not certain, but it seems like Unix is barely discussed in design education, despite a long history of interesting stuff like troff, LaTeX, FOSS, etc. typeface:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

turning my AC house into a calligraphy art gallery, stop by -> 1XVRQ

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

Blocksync v0.1-Alpha weight range: 700-900 I might add a 400 regular weight to the variable font if I can keep the locked widths and make it look ok.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

My goal during this recession is to make sure all the unemployed broke young people have the best possible FOSS digital art and design tools and that those tools run well on old/cheap computers.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

رمضان مبارك! This is the best I could do while holding a baby with one arm.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

I got my @TombSeries Index, it's beautiful! My son is obsessed with it and already tore a page.🥲

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@eliheuer

2 years

I worked on my typeface Hasubi Mono today and completely redrew many of the base glyphs. I think it's an improvement, but critique is welcome.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Runebender running on a Raspberry Pi 4, It's really fast even with 100s of points!

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

9 months

A python script that counts strawberry 🍓 emojis colab with a 3yo.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

I started the Hasubi Mono font project while doing Arabic book design in DrawBot and noticed there were not many good options for Arabic monospace fonts. I'm in the process of publishing this on Google Fonts, where there are currently zero Arabic monospace fonts available.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I started a new typeface, It's my take on a Bernhard-Antiqua-Bold-Condensed-like font. Seattle has a newspaper that uses this font for its logo/nameplate, so I see it all over and always think I'd like to draw my own take on it.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

This is working surprisingly well right now.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

ههــ ⇆🌹

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

I just made a basic demo video showing how I use Git for type design:

Basic Git for Type Designers

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www.youtube.com

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

@vanschneider

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

@wlaurance @patio11 They are lying to you to get a good rating.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

Fun!

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

This Rust CLI tool lets you search for installed fonts containing specific unicode code points with a TUI preview mode. So, to get this, I just ran: fontfor U+0634 -t 👉

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Calligraphy practice from this morning, critique welcome. [ بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ]

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

Apple products fail all of Rams 10 principles, change my mind.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

@k_2052 @chimeracoder I was homeless a few times after working as a UI designer in the game industry. I started working in games when I was young, then 2008 happened, and I couldn't find a job. Now I work in tech again, but I still have trouble relating to co-workers due to my lower class background.

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@eliheuer

5 years

I had to check to make sure FontForge works on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it wasn't all just a dream.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

Glyphsapp has a dark mode now 😈

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

A tilling window manager plus a fully customizable UFO editor is font heaven for me, I could never go back to anything more restrictive. 😇

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

It is still a little rough and far from finished, but I put a lot of work into the Arabic drawings for my Hasubi Mono font project over the last few days. The text is the first seven lines of the Baháʼí Long Healing Prayer in Arabic.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

9 months

WIP logo for a web3/AI startup I'm working on.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

@davelab6 @eionjwklm @thomas_lord GNU+Linux was an attempt at this, there are still some missing pieces like desktop environments, desktop apps and fonts. I'm still naive enough to think that things like Linux could open peoples minds to the idea that some kind of post-scarcity commons system might be possible.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

I didn't like the 2020 wall calendar I had at home, so I made a new one in @drawbotapp using the typeface Inter from @rsms . The DrawBot source for the 8.5x11 pdf is on my GitHub here:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

1 year

You can like neo-grotesks. You can make low effort forks. You can like every tweet. You can post a thousand times a day. You can repost tweets word for word. You can right click save every picture. You can be who you want to be. You can have fun online.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

فلسطين #SavePalestine

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

9 months

User-friendly micropayments are a real thing now, this has been a promise of the internet since the 90s.

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For the first time ever charge as little as $0.05 for anything you create online. The only question is: What will you create?

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

✨WIP: Drawn with Runebender 🔗UFO Source:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

1 year

✨Google Fonts has a newly redesigned site! I helped with this update in some small ways, like updating the classification metadata.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I think I finally have a workflow I like for drawing fonts on a Linux PC, I'm very happy about this.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

🚧 WORK IN PROGRESS 🚧 Hasubi Mono will be a variable font with weight and width axes, plus a custom GAPS axis for opening and closing the gaps between the Arabic glyphs.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

11 months

“The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people talk only of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world’s misery would very soon be changed into comfort.” —ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

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@eliheuer

4 years

Sigh...

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@eliheuer

4 years

This weekend I redesigned the toolbar icons for Runebender and opened a PR adding them upstream. I did the toolbar icon drawings in Runebender, which was a nice feedback loop of testing and drawing in the same program.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

1 year

Saber designed some great fonts using FontForge, RIP and respect!

fontiran

@FontIRAN

1 year

صابر راستی کردار پس از ماه‌ها مبارزه با سرطان در تاریخ ۲۳ آبان ۱۴۰۲ درگذشت. او به دلیل طراحی فونت‌های آزاد متعدد در جامعه طراحان و برنامه‌نویسان ایرانی چهره‌ای شناخته شده بود.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

I'm trying out Blender 2.90 tonight, it's working well with a GeForce GTX 2060 GPU on a Linux desktop.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

2023 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop for me. I might do a GTK-only port of one of my Runebender forks.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

1 year

New OFL project ✨

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

2 years

All those Google Fonts projects that used Figma for specimens and images will be really hard to work with by the end of the decade. Glyphs might not be a thing by then as well. If you care about the longevity of your work, use open-source tools and x-platform source formats.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

4 years

More metaball experiments — drawing with metaballs shaped like the tip of a broad nib pen — then applying different smoothing and isosurface polygonization processes.

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

6 years

Mac users: We are "Creatives" GNU+Linux users:

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

3 years

Language is interesting. In Arabic dream (حلم) has the same root as nipple (حلمة), just with a taa marbuta (ـة/ة) on the end, which is a way words are made feminine in Arabic. So the link between breastfeeding and putting babies to sleep is preserved in the language.🤱

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

My Bernie Bro wife just walked into my office and caught me working on a full screen “$“ glyph while listening to a Conversations with Tyler podcast, then called me a neoliberal. -__-

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Eli Heuer

@eliheuer

5 years

Calligraphy practice from yesterday: [﷽, U+FDFD]