Weeknote #2009

I backed this pen Kickstarter despite breaking my rule of no hardware Kickstarters - the company, Antou, seem to know what they're doing but we'll see. They have a lot of nice stuff on their site including this pen rest. The pen should be arriving in August some time. Pica is a new font management app that looks great and it's free. I need to get a handle on all the fonts I have. I'm not a font designer but if I was I might need to make proofs and Hellbox is the one. Two fascinating fonts I came across: Datatype is a "variable font that turns text into charts" and then this person built a chess rendering engine into a font which is wild. Matt did a handwriting font, something I've done a couple of times to varying levels of success. The last font and writing link is this post about backtrack-free cursive. I don't write cursive (or in lowercase for that matter) but this is really interesting. What intrigued me about files.md is that it uses an API I wasn't aware of to access local…