Abstract
This study considers alternative ways and methods of working with software and text, with a particular focus on typography. I show an ongoing investigation into different file formats and how typography is shaping their aesthetics, but also functionality. With the rise of collaborative text-editing and hybrid publishing the computer gains a new agency over the shaping of text based tools. The .txt file for instance lives from its simplicity and minimalism, but has an extremely rich history in the unix development. Simple text files don’t allow any change in typography, the operating system dictates its style. Yet, computational frameworks like markdown allow for its liberation – suddenly it becomes possible to define styles in text files. What do these limitations and liberations through computation mean for the Typographic Man? The rise of typographic machines is ubiquitous. Let’s take a closer look!
Presenters
Alex RoidlLecturer / Researcher, IT & Design, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
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KEYWORDS
Software Studies, Computation, Minimal Computing, Typography, File Formats, Standardization
