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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 4d

I added a site-wide font size slider to the Wakamai Fondue bètà. It will change *all* font previews, even the ones that didn't have a font-size slider before!

wakamaifondue.com/beta/

Give it a spin and let me know what you think!

Screenshot of Wakamai Fondue with arrows pointing to the font slider.

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 12d

⚠️ Fair warning: current test font Gimlet has a *boatload* of instances 😅

This new format should give you everything interesting:

- The name of the instance
- A preview of the instance
- The axis values + CSS of the instance

Currently working on adding a font size slider, so the sizes are synced.

pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 12d

I'm trying out a new variable instance preview on Wakamai Fondue Bětâ.

Instead of the green/yellow wall of buttons, I simply preview all of the instances, including the line of CSS you'd need for them.

Check it out on wakamaifondue.com/beta/ and let me know what you think!

Screenshot of the variable preview on the Wakamai Fondue website, showing a free-form tester, sliders for the axes, a dropdown, and three previews of instances

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VEXED (commissions OPEN) @v3x3d.bsky.social · 15d

A few of my more Gothic-like pixel fonts. ❤️

Part of my font bundle, around 55 fonts currently near 80% off!

itch.io/s/107531/meg...

Cheers! 🙂

#pixelart #ドット絵 #font #pixelfont

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 16d

Wait, what?!

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 19d

Netjes hoor! (Jammer dat je niet (meer) op Mastodon post, zag deze toevallig bij het sporadisch checken van bluesky)

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 22d

I just pushed a small change to wakamaifondue.com/beta/ to improve the OpenType feature previews.

I removed the randomized combinations as they weren't very useful and nobody seemed to like 'em. So the fondue now just shows *all* characters involved in the feature. Also, custom preview for `frac`!

$Screenshot of the Optional Layout Features part of Wakamai Fondue with the `frac` examples sloppily circled$

pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 23d

The fact that their main content font is a ~195 KB TTF file which should've been a ~86 KB WOFF2 would ordinarily be something to make your eyes roll, but now seems a completely irrelevant detail amongst all that other fuckuppery.

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 26d

My first real change to Wakamai Fondue's UI is to remove the donation button.

It never worked: people only donated twice, and only after I explicitly posted about it on social media, which felt like begging. All donations have been re-distributed to the amazing folks who contributed code! 💸

Screenshot of Wakamai Fondue's info modal with the paragraph about donations crossed out

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 26d

Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on.

We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 26d

I'm holding on to my tiny iPhone 12 Mini for dear life, soon we'll celebrate our 5-year anniversary too!

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 27d

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: getting the fireworks in Lighthouse! 💖

The recent refactoring and improvements to the Wakamai Fondue beta paid off. Deliriously happy about this!!

Try it yourself: wakamaifondue.com/beta

Chrome dev tools' Lighthouse report showing all 100-scores. The remnants of digital fireworks can be seen in the top left corner, above a screenshot of the Wakamai Fondue website

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 27d

I'm always happy when a new Grilli Type minisite hits the scene!

gt-era.com

Oh, the font it super sick too 💯

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 29d

Glad to hear this!

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 29d

2. Stop trying to be smart about the OpenType layout feature previews. This also seemed like a good idea at the time: take the characters involved in the feature and mix them up in an attempt to trigger the OpenType fearture. What was I thinking?!

Screenshot of Wakamai Fondue showing a wall of text trying to randomly trigger OpenType features

pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 29d

Next up is addressing two annoyances:

1. Create a better overview of all the variable instances. The button-with-small-preview approach seemed good at the time, but meh. It becomes a wall of unparsable yellow.

Screenshot of Wakamai Fondue showing a lot of yellow button representing one variable instance

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · 29d

Spent the last few days doing some tidying-upping of the Wakamai Fondue codebase. Feels *good* to finally scratch some of those itches.

Also, OpenType feature detection is more robust and doesn't take down the entire "Layout Features" section anymore if it crashes!

wakamaifondue.com/beta/

Wakamai Fondue

The tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

wakamaifondue.com

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sweet! Thanks for testing and sharing the video, much appreciated 🙏

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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · Sep 12

Tested with Altesse Pro. wakamaifondue.com/beta/ works nicely. 😍

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 12

I just updated wakamaifondue.com/beta/ again!

If your huge font was stalling the fondue, it should work now. I applied supercomputer voodoo programming (a.k.a. memoization) so it can better handle huge charsets.

It now parses this huge-ass 12MB font in 30 seconds on my machine!

Wakamai Fondue screenshot of a font with lots of features and a huge charset

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 12

I hope so!

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is very similar: p22.com

P22 Type Foundry

The home of P22

p22.com

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 5

I learned Linux on this! Back then it was one of the very few handheld computers that could do relatively modern things. I remember having it in the driver seat when wardriving, mapping open networks. I sold it, always regretted it. Have fun with it!

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pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy to hear you dig it! 🙏

pixelambacht @pixelambacht.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have just updated wakamaifondue.com/beta after a long time of inactivity 🤯

It might not be a big deal—it works slightly better than before—but it's been a long time coming. I'll tell you about it someday over a beer.

Let me know if something is (still) broken, or even better, if it now works!

Wakamai Fondue

The tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

wakamaifondue.com

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