CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font

<p>One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I’m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. By following hashtags like #programming and #technology and #knitting and #crocheting, I can find fellow nerds who are also into the crafts I enjoy.</p> <p>I discovered this week's guest, Angela Preston through these hashtags. She’s a knitter and she created a website by hand that explains how she built a font for knitting at <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kauriknitsfont/kauris-knitting-font" target="%5Fblank" rel="noopener">sites.google.com/...</a>. The best part is she created the font with an open source tool called <a href="https://fontstruct.com/" target="%5Fblank" rel="noopener">FontStruct at fontstruct.com</a>.</p> <p>The conversation bounces back and forth between explaining what knitting is, how traditional text-based patterns are written, how diagram-based knitting works, and then flipping over to how a font is created in FontStruct. Angela is fun and interesting and I think you'll really enjoy the conversation even if you're not a programmer or a knitter.</p> <p>Angela's font is called Kauri Knits, where Kauri is a name from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Gods-Part-River-Demons/dp/0345402464/?crid=1E7QQ19TIYYZU&sprefix=dancing+gods,aps,157" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the book series "Dancing Gods" by Jack L Chalker</a>. (It's also the Māori name for a cool tree in New Zealand.)</p> <p>If people want to follow Angela on Mastodon, you find her at <a href="https://toot.site/@AngelaPreston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@AngelaPreston@toot.site</a>.</p> <p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript: <a href="https://podfeet.com/transcripts/CCATP_2023_11_06.html">CCATP_2023_11_06</a></p>