administrators

Bernd Volmer made this cool installation a few years back at Typo Berlin

1 inch is 72 points...

this should do it!

widthInInches = 3
heightInInches = 5

newPage(widthInInches * 72, heightInInches * 72)

looks already cool!

The big difference between yours and the example you refer to is that the letters wait until all the following shaded letters arrive to the left and the right.

FYI: kerning over several variable settings does not work in Illustrator

should be fixed now or at least its working for me...

cool!

still, I don't get what the kerning value would be?

Imagine an axis with a super black with almost no kerning and a tiny light with lots of kerning: the pair AV where A is somewhere in the super black part and V in the tiny light part. Optical kerning is not an option here

you could also disable the kern feature, adding a small number to every letter seems like an easy cheat

mmm, this is not possible: see it as different styles. There is no kerning between a bold T and a light T of the same family. (This is also not possible in Indesign)

But you could write something to typeset an apply whatever kern value. What would that value be? is it the interpolated kerning of both instances divided by two? this could go wrong

mmm, you need to use all the powers of drawBot!!

pageSize = "A4"

path = 'AdobeVFPrototype.ttf'

border = 20

txt = FormattedString(
    font=path,
    fontSize=20
)
txt.appendGlyph(*txt.listFontGlyphNames())

while txt:
    newPage(pageSize)
    txt = textBox(txt, (border, border, width() - border*2, height() - border*2))
    

could you try again? it seems twitter is not automatically using https