| 词条 | Erik van Blokland |
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Typeface designErik van Blokland collaborated with fellow Dutch typographer Just van Rossum to fuse programming and letterform design in a hack to the PostScript programming language. The result was the FF Beowolf typeface, the first dynamically generated typeface, which modified letterforms on the fly. Using a randomizing algorithm to generate different letter forms each time a letter was printed. FF Beowolf laid the foundation for the FontFont library. Erik and Just own and operate the Letterror type foundry.[3] His typeface Trixie was an influence on grunge design as one of the earliest entries into the distressed type genre. It was famously used in the iconic logo for The X-files TV series.[4] Other typefaces of note include Eames Century Modern, a typeface based on the legacy of Charles and Ray Eames, designed with the co-operation of The Eames Office for House Industries and Federal, a highly intricate interpretation of the typography of bank notes, based on a study of siderography - the steel engraving process used for currency and old fashioned stocks.[5] ProgrammingErik has made several contributions to programming related to type design. He is the co-author of Unified Font Object (UFO),[6] the open, XML based file format for font data. He co-authored WOFF, the Web Open Font Format.[7] He developed the RoboFab type design extensions for Python with Just van Rossum and Tal Leming.[8] He's the author of Superpolator,[9] the application for interpolating font styles. References1. ^Erik van Blokland at the Klingspor Meuseum website. 2. ^http://typographics.com/people/erik-van-blokland 3. ^An A-Z of Type Designers By Neil Macmillan Yale University Press, 2006 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://trixiefont.com/story/index.html|title=The Story :: FF Trixie, Typewriter Font|work=trixiefont.com}} 5. ^http://letterror.com/ 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://unifiedfontobject.org/|title=Unified Font Object|work=unifiedfontobject.org}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/business/2009/11/web-open-font-format-backed-by-mozilla-type-foundries/|title=Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries|work=Ars Technica}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://typographica.org/on-typography/an-introduction-to-robofab/|title=An Introduction to RoboFab|author=Stephen Coles|work=Typographica}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://superpolator.com/|title=Sp3|work=Sp3}} External links
8 : 1967 births|Living people|Dutch designers|Dutch educators|Dutch computer programmers|Dutch typographers|People from Gouda, South Holland|Royal Academy of Art, The Hague faculty |
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