<div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>I think the idea is that instead of drawing a bezier contour outline for a letter, some logo code draws the letter - that code could be written or constructed by placing blocks.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2016 at 11:44, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Not 100% clear what you mean by Turtle scripting, but we extended Tuttle Blocks last year to enable Apps to run Turtle code (using a URL to pass data back and forth).</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On May 2, 2016 11:28 AM, "Eli Heuer" <<a href="mailto:eliheuer@gmail.com" target="_blank">eliheuer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'll be spending some time this week thinking about the UI/UX for the font editor activity and I'm inviting everyone involved to share their ideas here as well. <br></div><div><br>A good starting point is the core ideas from the human interface guidelines(<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines</a>). Particularly, I'm interested in how we can make this an activity, not an application. <br><br>Font editor applications like TruFont, Robofont, Glyphs, etc. assume a high level of understanding of what a font is and how one is made. Per the HIG we need to keep in mind our users are inexperienced, young and international.<br><br>One example of software with the UI/UX feel I would like to see is the original Kid Pix for the black and white Macintosh. You can read about it here: (<a href="http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years" target="_blank">http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years</a>), or use it with an emulator here: (<a href="https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/" target="_blank">https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/</a>). <br><br></div><div>Also, is there an easy way we could include Logo(Turtle) scripting? If not that, some way users can make fun generative fonts on their first try?<br></div><div><br><br></div><br></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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