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a page spread of upper case dot matrix OCR character grids
I have a feeling that this is going to end up as a TTF sooner or later. It's OCR-MA, an OCR font for dot-matrix printers
source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs...
source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs...
0y3ahSansAcut3
Though I don't get phontology, I love the crushed Q
@0y3ahSansAcut3 all about making different oscilloscope traces for each character on ancient OCR equipment
If this doesn't already exist as an OTF, I might have to knock it out. Not surprisingly, it looks pretty straightforward.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 OCR fonts are an interesting exercise in trying to distinguish similar things. Not just 0/O and 1/I... a smeary print or scanning too fast can make a 5 look like an S or vice versa, a G like a Q or a 6.
Altering the profile of the letter is one way to help with this. Train the device to recognize an O is diamond-shaped and a 0 is square. (Which btw is kind of entertaining if you're a typographer and used to seeing the Oh being rounder and zero being skinnier).
Tangentially this is relevant to periodic attempts at designing fonts for dyslexic readers. One of the techniques that help people with dyslexia is for similar-ish characters (C, G, 0, O, Q, or I, 1, l, |, /, !) to be drawn more distinctly, and to have symmetrical characters (I, T, A, U, etc.) drawn asymmetrically. It turns out that one of the better fonts for some dyslexic readers is Comic Sans.
Altering the profile of the letter is one way to help with this. Train the device to recognize an O is diamond-shaped and a 0 is square. (Which btw is kind of entertaining if you're a typographer and used to seeing the Oh being rounder and zero being skinnier).
Tangentially this is relevant to periodic attempts at designing fonts for dyslexic readers. One of the techniques that help people with dyslexia is for similar-ish characters (C, G, 0, O, Q, or I, 1, l, |, /, !) to be drawn more distinctly, and to have symmetrical characters (I, T, A, U, etc.) drawn asymmetrically. It turns out that one of the better fonts for some dyslexic readers is Comic Sans.
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Poster advertising Mexico vs. England in the style of an Aztec codex; a coterie of Mexico players holding down an England player and ripping out his heart. "July 5th / Gameday specials / Cold drinks / Good vibes / Watch the game love on the patio from 12pm / 2614 W Cary, Richmand, Va"
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night."
"I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night."
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Cool Squirrel does a backwards 50-50 grind down a rail. Cool Squirrel sees some people doing drugs. They say to Cool Squirrel “Want a hit?”. Cool Squirrel says “I’m good?”. Cool Squirrel looks over the top of their glasses and says “Cool Squirrel usually says no to crack!”. The words “usually says” are in small text.
usually.
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Animated gif of the the character Dana Scully talking into a car phone / cell phone on a rainy night. She is saying "Sure. Fine. Whatever."
'The X-Files' Season 3 Episode 13, "Syzygy"
'The X-Files' Season 3 Episode 13, "Syzygy"
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Sinar large format camera showing bellows and the front and rear standards at different angles. Shows extreme tilt at the front and tilt and swing at the rear.
I don't usually play around with camera movements but I needed some perspective correction.
Hey cool my dad plays accordion too. Maybe you could get together and jam out some polkas 🪗
Don’t play with that too much, you’ll go blind!
Weird Al Yankopic
@dreyfusslugado HI-YOOOO! 🏆
@dreyfusslugado 🌟
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A poster advertising a Mexican restaurant in Richmond VA featuring gameday specials, cold drinks, good vibes in advance of a World Cup game. The headline is Mexico vs England and it features an image of people in Mexico soccer jerseys ritually sacrificing someone in an England jersey.
Well, I gotta support someone now that Scotland and Canada is out, so Go Team Anybody Playing Against England
^^^
As the Scots say about every England opponent, "Those Mexicans are a fine bunch of lads."
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Art by Richard Nadler showing thousands of people gathered at a stadium. They are abstracted in the distance but in the foreground are drawn with some detail; they appear to be the same 4 or 5 character models repeated. The sky above is red, white and blue.
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unshaven smoking man in a black tank top and eyepatch looks off camera cynically, an American flag in the background.
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Comic strip: small boy offers tiny coin to stern faced fireworks store proprietor, who sells him a tiny firecracker. Boy exits store, lights firecracker, tosses it back into store and sits on opposite curb enjoying watching the store’s massive stock of fireworks explode.
Getting a lot of bang for your buck!
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A red tennis ball wedged in a gutter drain. Water covers it.
Just a quick fifteen minutes to test dried willow
I see a whittled silhouetto of a man
@davidl Scaramoh my god.
@davidl +++
@artwells has summoned thunderbolts of lightning on the National Mall
@artwells has summoned thunderbolts of lightning on the National Mall
@otaman very very frightening!
@davidl +++ well done
@davidl ★
@davidl
You dropped this, Queen: 👑
You dropped this, Queen: 👑
@davidl bravo.
@davidl Magnifico-o-o-o-oh
@davidl *
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The Riddler and their henchman at an art show
The kid and I at Carter Sexton’s Heroes and Villains art opening tonight.
Amazing!
excellent!
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In a parody of Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting “Christina’s World,” a woman in a white dress lying on a huge stretch of astroturf reaches mysteriously towards the empty, stupid pavilions and disused Ferris wheel of the failed Great American State Fair boondoggle that the Trump administration staged on the Washington DC Mall in place of the bipartisan-supported and significantly better 250th-anniversary of the US celebration that had been in the works for the past decade.
But don’t get me fucking started.
But don’t get me fucking started.
Arrested for violently pulling up the grass
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Because my name is Luke, right?
...RIGHT?
...RIGHT?
Wait. Is this because I’m a liberal??
Looking kind of dumb with a finger and a thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead
::Clap clap::
It’s the letter of the dayyy
It’s the letter of the dayyy
L is for Ludwig
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keanu-whoa.gif
Wolf of Wall Street (2013, dir. Scorsese)
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A fucking evil asshole watches Fox News showing the back of his own fucking stupid head.
Titled as found on Bluesky.
it’s douchebags all the way down
celebrating "freedom"
Waiting to see his own face on the teevee
Ghost of Eugene McCarthy.
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A comic-style image of the disembodied head of George Washington (?) shooting laser beams from his eyes at a burning, partially destroyed Capitol building amid flames and rubble.
No one expected laser Jefferson. That was their undoing.
Head of Jefferson Destroys an Alienable Right!
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Frame grab from what appears to be a local news remote segment. On screen is a man in a yellow t-shirt and cowboy hat. He is standing next to a wooden table and holding a large bicycle wheel. Behind him, cars sit on the grass in a makeshift parking lot that appears to be part of a local park or fairground. A chyron reads: "JOHN BEER Loves America."
The feeling is moot-u-wull
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A cartoon illustration of a man in bed horrified as he watches a burning sun creature come through his open window. Caption reads "He awoke to find the sun coming through his window."