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Tweets, toots, and jibber-jabbers of Eana Hufwe.
Mostly in variants of en, ja, zh and 08n.

Follow me on Mastodon/ActivityPub Fediverse:
https://s.1a23.studio/@eana

Channels I contribute to regularly: @translationgrass etc.
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Roboto now has its serif counterpart – Roboto Serif – a 3-axis variable typeface designed by Commercial Type and Greg Gazdowicz.
Available at Google Fonts.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Serif

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Interestingly, on the VF demo page, the glyph design changes once you touched the sliders, and stays different even after you drag them back to the starting positions.

L: Initial glyphs
R: Same values after dragging the sliders

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#TIL the company bought everyone an Acrobat DC license which comes with a full Adobe Fonts license. Finally got access to the huge font library again after my uni withdrew its license to all students.

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Adobe Fonts has this “Newspaper” category for Japanese typefaces, which is legit as such typefaces usually has a wider glyph design to squeeze in more text in limited spaces.

But... there’s no font in this category offered by Adobe Fonts while having it in the filters.

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Wrote a self-host tool to generate social preview images for web pages without one, referring to GitHub and
Max Schmitt’s implementations.

Here are some examples.

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The more you know, the more you don’t know.
The more you do, the more you realize what you can’t do.

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