the darnedest thing

a recent thread on reddit raised an interesting topic regarding same finger bigrams.

a quasi-proportional spaced Iosevka typeface.

i have been living with my mock up of a monospaced Atkinson Hyperlegible font now for some weeks.

a recent thread on reddit piqued my interest and made me ponder how the Monolegible font might be improved for the ereader.

klwp allows for endless customization of the android interface.

this page consolidates the various font customizations applied to the Iosevka font used on this site, my Kindle and computers.

i have sung the praises of the Amazon Kindle Oasis.

along the way, the consolidated write-up on the Monolexic font accumulated more revisions than i had anticipated as the original Hyperlegible Font was iteratively tweaked to address dyslexia.

for the interested, this entry encapsulates the machinations and rationalizations that accompanied the development of the dyslexic fonts for ereaders (and my reading enjoyment in particular) as described on this site. design Typefaces such as OpenDyslexic…

a random collection of code fragments used to solve various *nix installation problems encountered over time, after upgrades, etc.

among other things, this is an attempt to normalize the various MonoLexic fonts created on this site, removing redundant alias font naming and, instead, assigning custom Space cell widths to those font names—i still harbour a fondness for those names :) g…

for anyone who has stumbled upon this site’s discourse on fonts and readability, this page attempts to graphically summarize the evolution of these monolexic fonts.

if BEAKL Wi-v is a variant of BEAKL Wi, then.. beakl wi-x is the logical extension of it to the extreme, moving the Z to the pinkie home row and the X to the ring finger reach of the pinkie top row.

the Iosevka font is the source from which all monospaced fonts on this site have been created from.

typograffic has been my favourite font of late.. the culmination of two years of font experimentation—beginning innocently with a monospaced facsimile of the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (for coding) and expanding into (too) numerous variants as an ereader…

Iota rapidly established itself as the default font on my ereader.

from the Iota font springs the Ypsilon font.. which is its fraternal twin (or complement) with descenders applied to the vertical center strokes of the upper case T and Y—more easily discerned with fontmatrix**..

descending caps, since becoming enamoured with the descending serifless I variant of the typograffic font (with Iota), had become the focus of the latest font development.

this page was created to centralize OneDrive shared links (which i seem to be able to break periodically)..

a grail font perhaps?

the groot font has recently found favour as my go to ereading font with its singular descending caps I flair—the signature glyph that dominates my reading and writing typefaces.

The asymmetrical lower case t of the groot and related fonts is, quite possibly, the final glyph substitution (available from the Iosevka project) to aid dyslexic readability. groot IMO is both a beautiful and highly legible font with its dyslexic glyph c…

this topic will be short—a strong indicator that the dyslexic font variants presented on this site is coming to an end :) When the dyslexic font exploration began, a word spacing of Space 2x was used for maximum word separation.

the visual geometric minimalism and “flow” of the asymmetric lower case t propelled the grote font to the default ereading font with KOReader.

tired eyes are an effective test of typeface readability.

following hot on the recent cell width tunings for the serifless capital I and lower case l, comes the adrift font with cell width adjustments for the lower case hooked glyphs.. adrift is essentially the drift font with the descending capital I unique to…

production environment platform Debian Linux Alpine Linux the darnedest thing Sinatra web application DSL kramdown markdown syntax converter Slim template engine XapianFu full text indexing library Magnific Popup lightbox comments processing Ruby Mail lib…

fonts. drift and adrift had been my goto fonts for several months.

serifless cell width and 1x spacing after extensive reading with the pencil font with its ascending lower case l and descending capital I, further cell width tightening for these single stroke serifless glyphs is possible without diminishing the overall m…

birders are a broad community, captivated by the flight and fancy of feathered creatures and enchanted by their complex song.

descenders have been a hallmark of the latest fonts presented on this site (amongst other things) but the recent creation of the ascending lower case l has spawned the creation of a typeface with more traditional glyph geometries and a fuller sans serif e…

following grokking koreader are the settings—and importannly, their menu location—currently used on my Kobo Libre Colour.

i have sung the praises about the Kobo Libra 2 since purchasing it almost two years ago, shortly after its release—replacing my Kindle Oasis as my daily driver for consuming digital content.

is about the ending of it.

everything you have done, every choice, every turn, has led you to this now point.

knows only itself and, even then, knows only the idea of it.

we constantly place subtle and gross conditions on reality.

is remembering that everyone is always doing their best.

is a reminder of who we are.

when the story no longer is, the most miraculous thing remains.

is that my understanding is incomplete.

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.

is an homage to the Universal Grotesk font—possibly the first geometric sans font.

with the addition of the toothless double-storey lower case a to the descending caps typefaces, i realized i lacked a font with non-descending caps.

koreader is a comprehensive ereader app.

the ereader font explorations on this site are descendants of the original efforts to produce a monospaced variant of the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font—which remains sorely lacking for modal editors, writing and source code development.