This week's tutorials are about type. The first one about creating ligatures in your font with FontSelf in Illustrator https://youtu.be/K4T-sbNATTs #tutorial #illustrator #fontself #vector #design
How to create a pattern that fits inside a given shape so that this shape repeats: https://youtu.be/10WCugCxdAA #illustrator #tutorial #pattern #vector #fashion #design
Coloring Richard Kiel as Jaws in James Bond
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Okay, so apparently #drawIO does not export #SVG as proper SVG..... the texts are embedded in some HTML elements...
Firefox can render it perfectly, but when using some tool like #Inkscape , the text is a raster graphic.
When turning off font embedding and XML inclusion of the diagram within the SVG file, when exporting from drawIO, Inkscape can at least load the text as text, but it is weirdly truncated and does not stay within its bounds.
What the hell is this?
Edit: Pinging @drawio - perhaps you guys have an idea? :D
My toolbar is bigger than yours. So which problems can be addressed by the plugin VectorScribe? https://youtu.be/mOncFccfqsg #Illustrator #tutorial #design #vector
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Optimal, fast, and robust inference of reionization-era cosmology with the 21cmPIE-INN
Benedikt Schosser, Caroline Heneka, Tilman Plehn
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 037 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.2.037
A @friction mograph test using text effect (a little too fast) !
Here is the friction project if anyone wants to take a look ! https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ8IldZJIA7G6DSzW0dOOxx9Dt3g0q4kMM7
Friction is an open source 2d animation software, which could replace #aftereffect
Unofficial discord https://discord.gg/FkjnM2r2JD
Official page https://friction.graphics/
I finally found a way to "pathfind" continous shapes on a random truchet tiles grid. Since everything is vector, I was able to recurse through adjacent points.
How to make an Illustrator blend behave the way you want: https://youtu.be/40K4_otP0lM #tutorial #illustrator #design #vector #blend #3d
Thanks to @made I recently learned that dynamic code generation doesn't play nice with certain Content Security Policies (CSP). This has a major impact on a few core packages in #ThingUmbrella, like the https://thi.ng/vectors package which contains ~900 vector functions, most of them code generated and optimized for different vector sizes/dimensions (incl. n-dimensional versions). This package (and some others using a similar approach) are key dependencies for dozens of other geometry/visualization related packages... However, I found code generation the only way to practically manage & maintain the sheer amount of functionality provided.
Because of this (CSP impact), I've been working on a new code generator, which converts the dynamically generated code into statically generated source code files. This will make the overall initial package size bigger, but this shouldn't be a major problem in practice, since there're also very positive effects, including:
- The new format allows for doc strings for _all_ generated vector ops (with the dynamic approach there was no way to properly attach those in TypeScript)
- The new file structure (single function per source file) massively helps with dead code elimination when using a bundler, resulting in smaller final file/bundle sizes. When NOT using a bundler, similar filesize savings can be had by using direct imports (to individual functions) rather than full package imports
- None of the unused versions need to be code generated at runtime anymore, so also improving startup time
The new codegen is already covering around more than a third of the 900 ops. If you want to keep an eye on progress & discussion, follow this issue:
COURSE ADVANCEMENT: PACKAGE DESIGN
https://drixpell.com/2025/04/04/course-advancement-package-design/
Meshes and envelopes in Illustrator are essentially the same thing. And there is only one thing you need to know in order to tame them. It's a short video, your time is well invested: https://youtu.be/aIqGHoLPuuE In order to get a great envelope, then first create a gradient mesh. Then apply as top object. That's all. Please spread the word! #tutorial #illustrator #design #vector
My toolbar is bigger than yours - Part 3: WidthScribe by Astute Graphics https://youtu.be/gCNogiYmEh8 #tutorial #illustrator #vector #design
Made three #Pride variations!
- https://freesvg.org/black-trans-pride-cripplepunk-icon
- https://freesvg.org/pride-cripplepunk
- https://freesvg.org/trans-pride-cripplepunk-icon
and its a good day to remember us Aldercones are all #trans and Aldercone one of the ways we are visible! And that like many trans folks of color, are struggling https://mastodon.art/@aldercone/114230750625897898
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