Simon Charwey
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→ What is African type design? → What is African design? → Do we have the language(s) to describe it? @africandesignm
New Haven, CT
Joined January 2012
Is it only our team or everyone else is experiencing this glitch — ChatGPT’s grainy noise over images we are generating for an animated commercial video? .Also, the route to maintaining consistency in generated images in same scenes is painstakingly “fun”. @OpenAI @ChatGPTapp.
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My daughter (Mina): “Daddy, [giggling] if you’re a comedian, you will get more money oo”. Me: Really?. Mina: It’s true, Daddy. [giggling]. [This is not the first time I heard her say this. Perhaps, I should start.].
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Here is a revised version of the MODULAR LOCK DISPLAY FONT. Fun and experimental.
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Most often than not, I jump on a fun type design project as a form of “my little distraction” from my current “unemployed” life. Do you want to see more of those projects? .
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>> And see it as a modular system that can generate different combinations of its visual units into same or similar glyph possibilities. In the end, I am aiming at creating a complete character set and turning it into a usable font.
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>> In other words, to extend a particular graphic form into other sequential or random visual elements while retaining all or some of the visual units that can be seen in the original form. In this very project, I am using the letter “G” in the Glyphs App logo. >>.
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Project Description:⤵️.I am exploring a modular, interlocking system as a visual study and to see the varied possibilities in a particular form. >>.
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Most often than not, I jump on a fun type design project as a form of “my little distraction” from my current “unemployed” life. Do you want to see more of those projects? .
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. 👇🏾.
@hhpapazian, This is usually use in royal writings during the Ottoman Empire, and was used in the Sultan signature. It is a very specialized thing and. it is seen as a decoration. [Perhaps, explains why not capitalization in Arabic daily usage.] (June 03, 2025, @_KamalMansour).
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Please who is paying a scholarship for type designers from minority backgrounds?—to attend this most important discussion to be have? . Join me for an amazing event by @ilovetypography. Fundamentals of the Font Business .May 31, 2025 - From 4pm to 6pm .
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Fully dedicated conference to the business of running a foundry, the complexities of the font industry & the shifting trends in licensing.
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Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioners Program, powered by SILICON @siliconstanford. You can access the CALL FOR PROPOSAL here: ⤵️ #DrChanYeh #SILICON.
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🚨 Applications Now Open! 🚨 Last year, this initiative helped support 5 amazing projects focused on advancing Digitally Disadvantaged Languages in the 21st century. We're excited to continue this...
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There’s an old Taoist saying:.“Wealth does not enter a dirty home.”. True, even dirty money enter clean homes.
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I welcome all foundries or related institutions or individuals who may be interested in potential collaboration on this WIP (Work in Progress) Modern Garay font to please contact Charles Riley (@zenodotus). Thank you.🙏🏿.
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→ 2024 review of RTL nature of the Garay Script by Neil Patel of Glavy’s version for Unicode proposal submission.”. See full post here:
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. Also, other preliminary attempts towards Unicode encoding of Garay script include: .→ “Andrij Rovenchack up to 2019 at least, and maybe also in 2023. → Jason Glavy, maybe 2022 or 2023. … ⬇️.
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GARAY FONT (updated character set and some glyph coverage). See threads for a sequential breakdown leading to this “WIP” font—first Unicode-encoded, updated, and contemporary Garay font. The first non-encoded Garay font—was designed by Ian James, 2013.
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Fellows! — African type designers, please don’t miss this. 👇🏾.
Seminar 2: The Structure of the Font Industry. This seminar provides an introduction to how the font industry is structured between designers, service providers, foundries, and distributors. It also outlines the various sources of income in fonts.
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This is a perfect case for how design constraints (like the ones Mr. @VenkatBalakumar is thoughtfully trying to ensure were considered in the DP) can either limit or inspire innovation. I believe @UghDitya just wants to hv fun w/ the process w/out those decisions from the outset.
@UghDitya Beautiful, do you have prototype? what will happen with its soaked in will it loose shape? Will it hold shape dry? How do we pack say 30 of them in a box efficiently?.
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