Fontastic is a Processing library to create font files
What can you do with Fontastic? Create fonts with code!
Fontastic is a library for creating font files in TTF and WOFF format which you can then use in any design program or website.
It allows you to make fonts based on data, sensors, live feeds, or any other algorithm, or manipulate existing fonts to create your own version (see examples).
Fontastic was designed to make it as easy as possible to create a font in Processing.
Under the hood, it uses doubletype, a Java font editor that builds font files according to the TrueType format, and sfntly to create Web Open Font Format files.
Signs seeks on-campus intern
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the preeminent academic journal of women’s and gender studies, seeks an art intern. Art interns work on the cover design, update the website and work on images that appear in the journal. Knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and/or InDesign is required. Web programming skills is preferred. Preference is given to students with an interest in scholarship on issues of gender, race, nation, class, and/or sexuality.
Art interns are responsible for a variety of tasks, which may include: Designing the cover; developing brochures and other promotional materials; researching the work of contemporary women artists and proposing cover art; updating the Signs website; preparing images for publication; evaluating artwork submitted to the journal and corresponding with artists.
Internships are five hours per week.
The position is unpaid.
Art interns are listed on the journal’s masthead.
To apply, send your résumé to:
Miranda Outman-Kramer, Managing Editor, at moutman@signs.rutgers.edu
Form and Substance: Projection Mapping in Contemporary Art
At the Gowanus Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York.
Featuring work by:
Adam Dare
Bryan & Michelle Dodson (Integrated Visions)
Christina Graf
Claudio Sinatti
Davy & Kristin McGuire
Domingo Zapata
Jessica Angel
Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ)
Joel Fitzpatrick
John Ensor Parker
Kris Davidson
Laura Ramirez (Optika)
Paulapart
Red Paper Heart
Robert Seidel
Simon Anaya
Sougwen Chung
The exhibition will be free and open to the public from 6PM -10PM on May 10, noon to 10PM on May 11, and noon to 6PM on May 12. The exhibition will also host events Friday and Saturday nights from 10PM until late into the night with DJ’s and live music. Admission to these events will be $10 at the door.