Author Archives: Owen

Building a tool

September 6, 2004 – 9:29 pm

I’m thinking on doing some more work on the FreeType font hinting code sometime soon, so I’ve spent some time the last few weekends building a program to view hinted outlines. The way that hinting fonts for the screen works is that the outline is modified to better fit the grid of pixels, then the […]

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Sweet Corn

August 8, 2004 – 12:29 am

One of the best benefits of being back up North is the ability to get good, fresh sweet corn. Now, I need to say here that corn sold in a supermarket is almost certainly not fresh. Corn that wasn’t picked the same day you eat it is not fresh. If you have ever ordered an […]

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