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Spiro 0.01 release

... are greatly appreciated. http://levien.com/spiro/ Well, a digital gloss is Well, a digital gloss is still less ... techniques. My subjective experience is that Spiro is extremely good for making fine edits. You can tweak points around ... to optimize the Beziers, etc. These scripts ship in the spiro tarball, but not in the ppedit.dmg disk image. Dave Crossland ...

Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Typography trends and predictions for 2007

... sure what that does to point #5 above, but as far as my Spiro stuff is concerned, it's sadly almost certainly true. Between family and ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 31 Dec 2006 - 11:09am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

FontForge

... also include the ability to edit glyph outlines as Spiro curves ( Cornu spirals ), as well as Bezier curves . FontForge ...

Wiki - glyphobet - 2 Aug 2008 - 6:21am - 0 comments

Cornu-based curve editor for Unix

... but not least: I've tentatively chosen the name "Spiro" for the project. At least it's an improvement over ... curve - the other way around is better. BTW, "Spiro" sounds nice to me. hhp Spiro? We could then write a companion program and call it Agnew. Two reasons ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Nov 2004 - 11:34pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments

Euler spiral spline web toy

Hi typophiles, I'm in the process of porting Spiro curve editing to a Safari/Firefox canvas web app. I've just now got open ... Also keep in mind that there are other ways (in the full Spiro, but not yet in the web toy) to control the curvature in fontly ways, ...

Forum topic - raph - 20 May 2007 - 12:14am - 14 comments - 0 attachments

Aurulent Sans

... appreciate any suggestions for it. Thanks! In the Spiro thread, a In the Spiro thread, a discussion arose about how to parametrically define a font. ...

Forum topic - sgh - 19 May 2007 - 8:45pm - 11 comments - 5 attachments

Take the Spiro challenge!

Following up on an idea from the Spiro 0.01 release thread , I would like to pose a curve-drawing challenge to ... posted in my thesis, as part of a comparison between my Spiro tools and existing Bezier-based approaches. I will also post my own ...

Forum topic - raph - 8 May 2007 - 12:59pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

curve smoothness

... are going to look like. If you look over at the Spiro release thread you will see an example of how a good designer, ... to get curves he liked on an S far more easily with the Spiro tools, compared to the Bezier tools. Lucas de Groot didn't say to me ...

Forum topic - kiko - 29 Apr 2007 - 1:49pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments

Spiro prototype, second code escape

... so perhaps I can snag a corner of her harddrive for Spiro. This is very nice, and I'm rather disappointed that I ...

Forum topic - raph - 20 Nov 2004 - 4:32pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments