Rise of the Digital Fonts
A history of typesetting from movable type to variable fonts.
Tags: digitisation
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Friday, March 13th, 2020
Monday, April 10th, 2017
Transforming Our Libraries from Analog to Digital: A 2020 Vision | EDUCAUSE
Brewster Kahle outlines his vision for library collaboration in curating and distributing digital works.
Sunday, January 29th, 2017
Detecting text in an image on the web in real-time - Tales of a Developer Advocate by Paul Kinlan
The text detection API is still in its experimental stage, but it opens up a lot of really interesting possibilities for the web: assistive technology to read out text, archiving tools for digitising text …it’s all part of the nascent shape detection API.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
A good piece from Steven Johnson on the future of e-books but alas, it completely ignores DRM which is a show-stopper to the bright future he imagines.