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Sources for Quality Libre Fonts
April 2022 ¦ Let’s say you’re working on a project that just doesn’t feel right clothed in your editor’s stock fonts. “Typography is what language looks like,” says Ellen Lupton. Continue Reading…
Writing with Light in Variable Fonts
March 2022 ¦ Typography, an art form devised for the static page, is a nightmare on the internet. Type consists of precisely defined elements — size, leading, measure, line breaks — that are subject to infinite variation depending on the reader’s device, browser, and screen orientation. Continue Reading…
Redefining Classical Literature
January 2022 ¦ In recent years, Harvard University Press launched a new book series in the spirit of its famous, red- and green-wrapped Loeb Classical Library for Greek and Latin. Continue Reading…
Data on Narrative Voices in Early Novels
December 2021 ¦ Spanning works published between 1660 and 1850, the Early Novels Database (END) is the product of a collaboration between faculty, librarians, and students at nearby Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn. Continue Reading…
A Running List of Speculative Fiction Datasets
October 2021 ¦ Of all literary genres, speculative fiction seems to be the most suited for the quantitative lens. Think of fan-driven databases like Memory Alpha, in-world galactic encyclopedias, or hand-curated anthologies, zines, and collections like those featured in The Stuff of Science Fiction. Continue Reading…
Experiments with Speculative Fiction in HathiTrust
August 2021 ¦ I just shared a Jupyter notebook for working with three thousand speculative fiction novels using HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Analytics. The notebook uses “Extracted Features” rather than the full text of the novels: a data format devised by HathiTrust in order to enable text analysis on post-1926 books still under copyright protection. Continue Reading…