Stewdio Blog » Histogram http://stewdio.org/blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:44:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 HistoFace blogged by Adobe’s John Nack http://stewdio.org/blog/2009/02/16/histoface-blogged-by-adobes-john-nack/ http://stewdio.org/blog/2009/02/16/histoface-blogged-by-adobes-john-nack/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:00:57 +0000 admin http://stewdio.org/blog/?p=193 HistoFace, Stewdio‘s histogram typeface, received mention on the Adobe blogs today via John Nack in a post titled Slick typographic apps: Hidden Messages & More. HistoFace is a form of steganography, the art of hiding messages within another medium. The medium in this case is a digital image and the vehicle for revealing the message is the Photoshop Levels tool. Don’t rely on it for security, however, as HistoFace makes for horribly weak cryptography. Its purpose was more process driven: How does one craft a unique set of letterforms that handle the impossibly tight constraints of histogram imagery? Visit HistoFace at http://stewdio.org/histoface.

]]> http://stewdio.org/blog/2009/02/16/histoface-blogged-by-adobes-john-nack/feed/ 0 HistoFace featured on Ironic Sans http://stewdio.org/blog/2009/02/02/histoface-on-ironic-sans/ http://stewdio.org/blog/2009/02/02/histoface-on-ironic-sans/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:08 +0000 admin http://stewdio.org/blog/?p=161 This morning David Friedman wrote about HistoFace on his blog Ironic Sans. HistoFace is a histogram typeface designed for use in the Photoshop “Levels” window. The character shapes articulate the tight constraints of histogram imagery: Each figure must be constructed from bottom-flush vertical lines, rendering compound paths and concave cantilevers impossible. 

It’s a particular honor for this project to be featured on Ironic Sans because it was inspired by an Ironic Sans article on Histogram Hacking and an I.S. reader, Josh Millard. (Thanks to Lan Lan Liu for originally bringing Ironic Sans to our attention.) HistoFace was also recently linked from The Moon Goons.

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