Machine Learning Is Making it Difficult to Tell Humans and Computers Apart
Computers are becoming more effective at replicating how the human brain works
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Author: Joseph Fioramonti
From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
I’ve always felt like constructing printed math was much more of an art form than regular typesetting.
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How Futura Became The Most Ripped-Off Typeface In History
Companies from Best Buy to Forever 21 use Futura, but probably not the original. That’s because it has been endlessly reimagined, imitated, and blatantly ripped off.
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The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans
It was a tense summer day in 1835 Japan. The country’s reigning Go player, Honinbo Jowa, took his seat across a board from a 25-year-old prodigy by the name of Akaboshi Intetsu.
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What is a “serif” in Hebrew?
When calling a Hebrew typeface a serif or a sans serif, one borrows a typographical term from one script to describe another.
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