Dr Wouter Soudan @rhythmvs

Independent scholar, type designer & typographer; founder @textvs; PhD art history; postdoc computational linguistics; hacker scriptorium.blog Leuven (Belgium) Joined July 2009

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Dr Wouter Soudan @rhythmvs

3 years ago

Jarig.

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7 years ago

@y_haralambous Surely that scribe must have been a student of Card. Ximenes’s polyglot ;-)

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@tsmullaney @TiroTypeworks @aaronbell @FredSmeijers on the relativity of puchcutting in that bygone world: ‘proportions are very important, but smooth outlines, no, I am not going to waste my time on that.’ (youtu.be/RhCLyea8QjY @ ~52') In watch making minute mechanical accuracy matters, in type not that much.

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7 years ago

@TiroTypeworks @celiason @rosettatype @mbutterick A peculiar idea indeed. Which begs the question about Morison’s own conversion to (Old) Catholicism. And Gill’s. At least these three may already show that religious beliefs are less clear-cut than denominations. Our crystal goblet, by any other name, have the Word shine as well.

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7 years ago

@bsb_muenchen Vielen Dank, dann mache ich es so!

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7 years ago

@bsb_muenchen Die Handschrift BSB Clm 364 (15. Jh) wurde noch nicht digitalisiert, oder ist immerhin nicht online verfügbar; opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?oclcno=…). Bevor ich Kopien über ERaTo bestelle: können Sie mir vielleicht ein Bild von f°7 zeigen, oder ff°116–126r? Danke!

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7 years ago

@typeoff @typolis Do you have an ISBN or bibliographic address? What’s the imprint called?

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7 years ago

Besides the notebooks & piles of loose-leaf napkin sketches, there’s also drafts for chapters of my book on type. First writing dates back to when I was simultaneously working on a multi-script Scotch Roman revival. (Astronomical symbols were fun!) [12] —

Dr Wouter Soudan @rhythmvs

7 years ago

This month, I’m turning forty. Suitable occasion to look back at my work in type… #typedesign #portfolio

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7 years ago

Once well into font development, I started architecting a new editor, where type metrics would take center stage. Mockups for standardized specimens included input values for parameterizable glyph drawing and showed the output of curve analysis. [11] —

Dr Wouter Soudan @rhythmvs

7 years ago

This month, I’m turning forty. Suitable occasion to look back at my work in type… #typedesign #portfolio

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7 years ago

@typographer Maybe because in numismatics ℏ = ħ? After all, it’s about a constant, isn’t it? ;-)

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7 years ago

@textfiles Thank you!

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7 years ago

@hhpapazian @kateo @vgcerf @timberners_lee Of which both are a symptom, burking outright, as they do, their less complacent and silenced co-founders, Doug Engelbart e.a., Robert Cailliau. There the true inventors, here but merchands marketing the invention as if it were their own.

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7 years ago

@hyphenpress That book was an eye opener: I cherish the copy I got, back then. Thank you!

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7 years ago

@isoletters Belgian lettering… Interestingly, in his Essay, Eric Gill shows about the same deadly sin (figs 12–13).

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7 years ago

After promotion, the time of commuting began, while I started scribbling down field notes, ideas about letters, their shape, proportion, spacing, fitting. Meanwhile, it has become quite a pile—enough to once fill a book. [10] —

Dr Wouter Soudan @rhythmvs

7 years ago

This month, I’m turning forty. Suitable occasion to look back at my work in type… #typedesign #portfolio

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7 years ago

Here’s my dissertation’s full-text: academia.edu/708761/Normati… — (I’ll put the source on Github too.)

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7 years ago

I must confess that I often was carried away by the typography of the primary literature I was doing the PhD on, rather than dealing with its contents. In the end, 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 appealed more to me than arcane theories of metaphysical aesthetics. [9] —