March 6, 2012
Co-position, file-format, Future Tools, ideas, Scribus, standards, Unicode, versioning, whitespace

100 idées

A first harvest of future tools that were brought to the surface at the Co-position Research Meeting: Colorfont The days of monochrome digital typography are over. Inspired by art-deco hand-drawn lettering experiments, Manufactura Independente came up with colorfont.js. This javascript library makes it easier to create multi-colored typography for the web. It was further developed [...]

April 21, 2011
Fontforge, Fonts, LiteralDraw, News, OSP, OSP-DIN, Unicode, Workshops + teaching

Asian Record, side B

Monday Its akward, it’s unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a position of welcoming a happy accident, a trong ruì có may. (Tomorrow, not forget : — printer — walking — reformat usb sticks — osm account) We make a tour with GP…

January 27, 2011
OSP, Recipe, Type, Unicode

Dingbat Dictée

Recipe for teaching Unicode poetry to students of all ages: Print out listings of the following Unicode blocks: Dingbats (2700–27BF), Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF) and eventually Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (2B00–2BFF). It is important y…

January 3, 2011
News, OSP, Unicode, Website, wordpress, Works

First 2011 work, Circular Facts website

During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us a customised WordPress template with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the Circular Facts website.

March 28, 2010
expo, Foundry, OSP, Recipes, Standards + Formats, Type, Unicode, Works

Hello I’m NANCY ♥

3 days, 327 kilometers, 6 liters of Cube Cola Libre and 54 commits later …
Please meet NANCY (a new OSP-software project), download the Dingbat Liberation font (DLFo) and much more at: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy

Re-thinking Miscellaneous Symbols: Flêche grasse à pointe arondie vers la droite?

Taking a fragment of the UTF-8 plane into our hands

Serving liters of Cube Cola [...]

March 24, 2010
dingbats, expo, Font, Live, News, OSP, public appearance, Unicode

Nancy -1

OSP se prépare à my.monkey
Dessin/grattage Unicode à la mine de plomb, scriptage Scribus vers étiquettes, collection d’objets, préparation d’un mode d’emploi et suivit du projet en place en ligne.
Encore beaucoup de quoi s’occuper. Demain premier tests debuggage de Nancy.

February 25, 2010
dingbats, Fontforge, Fonts, Foundry, Libre Fonts, News, OSP, Standards + Formats, Type, Unicode

Dingbats in a monkey

The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy from March 25 to May 6.
Invited by the my.monkey gallery, OSP présentera quelques uns de ses travaux et ouvrira un nouvel atelier Dingbats Liberation Fest into the grid.

Le projet de fonte collaborative Dingbats Liberation Fest propose de redessiner les caractères Dingbats et Miscellaneous Symbols d’Unicode.
Après 2 premiers [...]

December 4, 2009
dingbats, Live, OSP, Print Party, Standards + Formats, Unicode

Dingbat Liberation Fest II

Friday December 11
Location: CASCO, Office for Art, Design and Theory Utrecht (NL)
☔ ✈ ❀ ☺ ❍ ✌ ☺ ✈ ❉
Next week, OSP is happy to re-play Dingbat kitchen with students from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design.
“Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They’re as much a part of the Unicode Standard as the [...]