[HN Gopher] Mathematically inspired typefaces
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Mathematically inspired typefaces
Author : sohkamyung
Score : 51 points
Date : 2021-06-25 10:58 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| mettamage wrote:
| The son (Erik Demaine) of this father and son team is a good
| teacher.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
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| IAmGraydon wrote:
| > The verb "puzzle" -- to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse
| -- is of unknown origin.
|
| It's pretty discouraging when the first sentence is patently
| incorrect.
|
| https://www.archimedes-lab.org/puzzle_etymology.html
| svat wrote:
| Anyone can state an etymology with more certainty than
| warranted; that doesn't mean the etymology is actually known.
| The page you quoted says:
|
| > The word _Puzzle_ comes from _pusle_ "bewilder, confound"
| which is a frequentive of the obsolete verb _pose_ (from
| Medieval French _aposer_ ) in sense of "perplex".
|
| But etymonline (Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary)
| says (https://www.etymonline.com/word/puzzle):
|
| > 1590s, _pusle_ "bewilder, confound, perplex with difficult
| problems or questions," possibly frequentative of _pose_ (v.)
| in obsolete sense of "perplex" (compare _nuzzle_ from _nose_
| ).
|
| Note the word "possibly". Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w
| /index.php?title=Puzzle&oldid=1029...) says:
|
| > The etymology of the verb _puzzle_ is described by [the
| _Oxford English Dictionary_ ] as "unknown"; unproven hypotheses
| regarding its origin include an Old English verb _puslian_
| meaning 'pick out', and a derivation of the verb _pose_.
|
| And this is the full note in the version of OED I have access
| to:
|
| > _[Note. For the etymology of puzzle the first question is the
| relation of the n. and vb. The vb. has been held to be derived
| from the n., and the latter viewed as an aphetic form of
| apposal or opposal. But the chronology of the words, and still
| more the consideration of their sense-history, seem to make it
| clear that the verb came first, and that the n. was its
| derivative. In the light of this, the vb. has been referred to
| pose v. 2, as a diminutive (or other derivative formation), as
| in suck, suckle. This is phonetically possible: cf. nuzzle from
| nose. But there are serious difficulties in the signification.
| Of the earlier sense of puzzle, as seen in the examples under
| 1a above, no trace appears in the original sense of pose and
| appose `to examine by putting questions ', and it is only the
| derivative senses 2 of pose and 1c of puzzle that come into
| contact. Thus their relation seems to be that of two words
| originally distinct, which (as in some other cases) have
| subsequently attracted each other. Puzzle was possibly the same
| verb of which the pa. pple. poselet occurs late in the 14th c.,
| app. in the sense `bewildered, confused, confounded', and
| which, riming with hoselet, i.e. huselet, housled, was prob.
| pronounced ('pu:z@let), which would regularly give by 1600
| ('pUzled), later ('p^zled). The non-appearance of the verb
| during the intervening 200 years might be owing to its being
| one of the colloquial words which came into literary use in the
| 16th c. This is however conjectural and, even if true, leaves
| the ulterior derivation still to seek. (A verb of similar form
| appears in late OE. puslian `to pick out best pieces of food'
| (Sweet), = Du. peuzelen to pick, to piddle, LG. poseln,
| pusseln, Norw. pusla; but it is difficult to see in its sense
| any connexion with that of `puzzle'.)]_
| TheRealNGenius wrote:
| Mathematical fonts for curiosity rather than utility
| yamchah2 wrote:
| Anyone know how I can read this without making an account?
| zksmk wrote:
| If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view
| an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every
| interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already
| been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the
| wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's
| something for Chromium browsers too.
| chinmaykunkikar wrote:
| Yes. Try this bookmarklet called Readium
| (https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/).
|
| It works great for NYTimes, Medium, Bloomberg.
|
| Some more info about this - On Medium, it only works on urls
| with 'medium.com' in them. Won't work on other custom Medium
| domains (like betterprogramming.pub) because of a CORS related
| issue. It works by fooling the site by making a fetch() call to
| the current url without sending cookies to the site.
| sverona wrote:
| Prepend https://archive.is/ to the URL.
| FabHK wrote:
| Usually I read the NYT with JavaScript disabled, but while that
| does display the text, it doesn't show the illustrations and
| fonts...
| ghusbands wrote:
| https://archive.is/Yc7ae
| svat wrote:
| Play with the fonts here: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ -- for
| each one, there's a webpage which lets you enter your own text,
| and also has some information about that typeface and related
| mathematics. These fonts are of course more about the latter (can
| we create letter shapes subject to these constraints) than
| anything you'd set a page of text in, but that doesn't make them
| any less fun.
| slver wrote:
| Wow. Terrible.
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