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posted by netbros on Mar 31, 2009 - 12 comments

Keyboard calligraphy "To produce such a typeface, Müteferrika knew he had to analyze Arabic script. Calligraphers might learn to make the correctly shaped letter combinations by practice, without conscious application of tens of thousands of rules, but for machine reproduction of the script, deciphering those rules was exactly what was essential."
posted by dhruva on May 1, 2008 - 28 comments

Type, handwriting, and lettering
posted by persona non grata on Aug 20, 2006 - 17 comments

Caligraft - computational calligraphy.
posted by Wolfdog on Jun 19, 2006 - 14 comments