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Old screenfonts report for Ascender & Microsoft now published

2009-08-13T13:39:00-05:00

We’ve <a href="/reports/Ascender-Microsoft/" title="Screenfonts for captioning">now published an old report</a> (from 2006) for Ascender Corp. and Microsoft on screenfonts for captioning. (It was never implemented.)

Captioning Sucks! launches

2008-04-01T09:15:00-05:00

The Open & Closed Project’s new site about captioning quality – <a href="http://captioningSUCKS.com/" title="Captioning Sucks!">Captioning Sucks!</a> – launches. Of course we talk about <a href="http://captioningSUCKS.com/fonts/" title="The fonts suck!">screenfonts</a>.

A snippet about HD-DVD and Blu-ray fonts

2007-11-19T14:36:00-05:00

Not that we have much to say about them

Speaking notes from <acronym>ATypI</acronym> Brighton 200y7 available

2007-09-20T15:08:00-05:00

<a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/caption-subtitle/" title="Speaking notes">Speaking notes</a>: “Don’t show printouts to grannies and call that a test.” All about the research flaws of Tiresias. Gives new principles for research into caption/subtitle fonts.

We’re presenting at <acronym>ATypI</acronym> Brighton 2007

2007-08-21T16:51:00-05:00

We’re <a href="/fonts/development/ATypI-Brighton/" title="Don’t show printouts to grannies and call that a test: Some scenarios for testing TV screenfonts">presenting at <acronym>ATypI</acronym> Brighton 2007</a>: “Don’t show printouts to grannies and call that a test: Some scenarios for testing TV screenfonts.”

New font designers on board

2007-05-10T13:08:00-05:00

We’ve updated the <a href="http://Screenfont.CA/fonts/development/designers/" title="Participating designers">list of designers</a> working on our new fonts. Yes, it’s still happening, though the herd needed a cull to get us there

Full critique of typography in the HDTV captioning spec

2006-11-29T14:43:00-05:00

<a href="http://Screenfont.CA/fonts/today/708/type-critique/" title="What does the HDTV captioning spec say about typography?">What does the HDTV captioning spec say about typography?</a> We have a legitimate copy of the CEA-708-C standard and have reviewed its sections on fonts. It isn’t pretty

Coming clean about our parent project

2006-11-13T17:00:00-05:00

Now that the <a href="http://openandclosed.org/" title="Open & Closed Project">Open & Closed Project has launched</a> (see <a href="http://joeclark.org/micro/" title="Joe Clark Micropatronage">micropatronage</a>), we can finally come out of the closet and stop saying we are part of “an upcoming project”

Calling for real caption-font research in the U.K.

2006-07-27T14:25:00-05:00

We’re fed up with the British and their insistence on uncritically accepting junk science that purports to show Tiresias Screenfont as an acceptable captioning font. So we’re <a href="http://Screenfont.CA/Ofcom" title="Response to Ofcom literature review">asking the U.K. broadcasting regulator</a> to commission its own research – and its own fonts, if need be

Dispelling the myth of caption size

2006-06-15T16:45:00-05:00

<a href="/fonts/today/captionsize/" title="Dispelling the myth of caption size">Dispelling the myth of caption size</a>: Who says captions on an iPod Video would be too small? All the evidence – from real online captioning and by comparison with other media – proves the contrary

Design critique of Tioga, the Tiresias clone

2006-02-23T14:37:00-05:00

Tioga, the Tiresias clone dissected. Can you believe it doesn’t have an italic either?

Fascinating fact of the week: Preferred television viewing distance

2006-02-23T14:36:00-05:00

We dug up and summarized what is apparently the sole reference for preferred TV viewing distances. Pity they don’t back it up with research

Design critique of Tiresias Screenfont available

2006-02-22T15:52:00-05:00

Finally: Our design critique of Tiresias Screenfont, that oversold, overpriced, near-vapourware font

Screenfont.CA: Still undead!

2006-02-14T14:36:00-05:00

Yes, we’re still in business – still beavering away on requirements for our first font family, and a design critique of Tiresias is upcoming