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
Currently, I am yet to investigate this topic with other translations tools.
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Here is a simple but useful ha[k for formatting @google Translate in Gā (a language in 🇬🇭), but can be apply to other languages, especially “DDLs” that are added to Google Translate. You = “nyɛ” (Plural form) You = “o / bo” (Singular form) In Gā.
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Affinity Designer → Preference → General → Change the Language (by accessing the language drop-down menu) → Select French (or your preferred language from the list) → Restart Affinity Designer (Click the “Restart Now” prompt that will appear.)
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Design tools with intuitive in-app Interface language feature to change users’ preferred language(s) at will. AFFINITY DESIGNER → 100% ADOBE INDESIGN → 0% We’re going into an age of equitable #DigitalInclusion #AffinityDesigner
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We have almost succeeded in training machines to think and talk like us (humans). Now, we are in a hurry to catchup; learning how to speak to machines by thinking and talking like machines. #thinkingmachine #thinkinghuman
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“Read and write everyday, couples of hours everyday. Write about things you found to be important. And see if you can discover what you believe to be true.” — Dr. Jordan Peterson
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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. https://t.co/K2WGieUvsj
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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? https://t.co/wKbKHcxaNc
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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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@RimlessFreelnce, long time. Hope you’re keeping the design faith intact. ✨
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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? https://t.co/wKbKHcxaNc
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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 https://t.co/prgs288Mfm
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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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Thank you for sharing @crewsproject ! More refinements work in ongoing.
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