December 17, 2017
Getting started in Drawbot, part 3: making a perfect, expandable grid
Goedemorgen! This is the third post in a small series about using Python in Drawbot, for Parametric design. If you haven’t read the other posts yet, check out part 1 and part 2 . In this post, I’ll be doing a deep-dive into the thought process…
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December 16, 2017
Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot, Part 2
The following are notes taken from Just van Rossum’s Python class in the KABK Type and Media program, on Sep 20, 2017. If you haven’t yet learned anything about Drawbot, start with part 1 of this series . In these classes, Just does a great job of…
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December 10, 2017
Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot
As part of Type and Media I am taking classes on Python from Just van Rossum (Just is pronounced like “Yoost”). Just has done a ton to move type design technology forward, such as being one of the three main developers of the UFO font file…
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November 01, 2017
How to generate simple sample strings with Python in the macOS command line
Recently, I wrote a post about manipulating strings with Python to help in font testing (from here, I’ll refer to this as “the previous post”). I received the feedback/tip that Python can also help you generate the alphabet or digits quickly and…
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October 31, 2017
How to manipulate a string with Python in the macOS command line
These weeks, I’m doing a lot of type design for class, and part of this is testing fonts that are just in their early stages, often with a very limited character set. For this, I find myself needing to work with strings of text to test my partially…
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September 14, 2017
Use Drawbot with GitHub and VS Code
My TypeMedia class is taking our first forays into Drawbot, a program that allows you to make drawings and animations programmatically with Python. To me, it feels a lot like CodePen for Python. However, there are a few things that Drawbot doesn’t…
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