@IxtaTypeUI

The InDesign plugin Ixta TypeUI is a pet project of @DirkBecker

Joined November 2014
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It took a while to build momentum, but the typo.social instance is now generating a steady stream of type, lettering and design related content. The community feed is so focused that I mostly don’t feel the need to follow individual members.
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Sixth Tone
@SixthTone19 Sep 2022
Twelve years ago, a young type designer created a rudimentary font based on a photocopy of the Kangxi Dictionary. Within months, it was on everything from restaurant menus to propaganda posters. sixthtone.com/news/1011200/h…
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Traditional Tatar literature is virtually inaccessible for modern Tatars for a similar reason. Till the 20th c we used to be a Persianate culture, so being "educated" implied a decent knowledge of Farsi (at least) and Arabic (ideally). You needed to be at least bilingual
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb10 Jun 2022
Nation-States destroyed the Mediterranean. [Also note signs in French as the Jewish upper class used French]
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NEW: Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts bit.ly/3c6s5BE
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So steuert man in InDesign mit Bordmitteln (Script) @opentype Zeichenvarianten an: xitter.cf/IxtaTypeUI/status/6125…
IxtaTypeUI@IxtaTypeUI21 Jun 2015
// This InDesign jsx activates cvXX: app.selection[0].opentypeFeatures=[["cv"+("00"+prompt("character variant","70")).slice(-2),1]];
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Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts medium.com/@tiro/https-mediu… #OpenType #VariableFonts

Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts

“” is published by John Hudson in VariableFonts.io.

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Kanji Graphy my new #book on #japanese #writingsystem and japanese #typograpy is ready! instagram.com/p/BGtjgcJDJRa/
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I just learned about the test font Nadezhda by @adamtwar. forums.adobe.com/message/846… Most features covered, probably missed a checkbox or two …
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RT @dirkbecker Leaving for @IFRAExpo #wpe15. This year conveniently located in Hamburg.
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Would scripting InDesign with perl make sense? forums.adobe.com/message/786…
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xitter.cf/dirkbecker/status/6271… Here's the first screenshot of TypeUI running on Windows 7!
Dirk Becker@dirkbecker31 Jul 2015
Just reached a big milestone with my converter from #Xcode project to VisualStudio. First 3 InDesign CC.2014 plugins compile and run.
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Just found that @TypeKit hides font data from @InDesign plugins, so I can't (yet) show ssXX names. Consider that when shopping for fonts ...
Today I've added Mac CC and CC.2015 versions to the existing CS5, CS6 and CC.2014. Next step is Windows.
cvXX has sampleTextNameId. What about other features? In a button panel (not yet) I’d pick a glyph named „POSTER“, fall back to first GSUB.
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The #AdobeTypeUI petition also triggered some Open Source Software efforts. Interesting blog post by @peter_works xitter.cf/peter_works/status/613…
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// This InDesign jsx activates cvXX: app.selection[0].opentypeFeatures=[["cv"+("00"+prompt("character variant","70")).slice(-2),1]];
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Skolar by @rosettatype has Stylistic Sets with names. Some appear to be candidates for Character Variants...
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InDesign's German translation for "Stylistic Sets" - "Formatsätze". Hidden at 2nd level submenu.
Character Variants with names, "Damma" applied and rendered by InDesign. Some cvXX are filtered out due to lang=DEU.
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Can't get the names of Stylistic Sets or Character Variants out of InDesign, so I wrote an own font parser ...
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