{"id":29756,"date":"2023-11-06T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=29756"},"modified":"2023-11-06T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:00:55","slug":"ccatp-777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/ccatp-777\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/My-key-to-typing-in-Kauri-Knits.png\" alt=\"My key to typing in Kauri Knits\"  title=\"My key to typing in Kauri Knits.png\" width=\"400 \" height=\"345\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I\u2019m 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>\n<p>I discovered this week&#8217;s guest, Angela Preston through these hashtags. She\u2019s 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\">sites.google.com\/&#8230;<\/a>. The best part is she created the font with an open source tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/\">FontStruct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<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&#8217;ll really enjoy the conversation even if you&#8217;re not a programmer or a knitter.<\/p>\n<p>Angela&#8217;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&#038;sprefix=dancing+gods,aps,157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the book series  &#8220;Dancing Gods&#8221; by Jack L Chalker<\/a>. (It&#8217;s also the M\u0101ori name for a cool tree in New Zealand.)<\/p>\n<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>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-29756-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2023_11_06.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2023_11_06.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2023_11_06.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2023_11_06.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript:   <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2023_11_06.html\">CCATP_2023_11_06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I\u2019m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. 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