John Hudson @tiro_j@mastodon.technology
Semi-personal account of one half of Tiro Typeworks, a digital foundry specialising in fonts for multilingual computing and publishing.
TIL There's an ISO standard for brewing tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
"ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea, possibly sampled by the standardized methods described in ISO 1839"
And Ireland wasn't happy because it omitted prewarming the pot:
"Ireland was the only country to object, and objected on technical grounds"
The maker of the excellent #VariableFonts technology test site http://www.axis-praxis.org/ is now on Mastadon, hurrah: @Lorp
For background on OpenType variable fonts and their benefits for web and typography, see: https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369
Hey @typographica & @DunwichType apparently there are tools to help match Twitter and Mastodon followers, but I've not tried any of them yet. If you find any other members of the tribe, let me know.
Adam Twardoch of FontLab, sounding off on Microsoft vs Apple from a developer perspective:
'macOS is a fine OS to work on in terms of UI and graphics, but when it comes to stability for developers, it's terrible.'
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/30892/#Comment_30892
