Finally.
Finally I have created my blog.
It should have happened much earlier. I overestimated the cost of building and maintaining my own blog, and made do with alternatives such as social networks and blog hosting services. But there is always a difference between fully owning every bit (in the computer science sense) of my article, and having a third party controlling everything they think I should not care about.
Anyway, better late than never, at least I finally take the efforts to bring it online.
Everything else is placeholder. Even the title, “de finibus”, refers to the book De finibus bonorum et malorum by Marcus Tullius Cicero, in which the famous placeholder text “lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…” is derived from.
The plans is to write about things that are not so relevant to my everyday job. That is, hobbies. So I might write about linguistics, board games, research areas that I am not really working at, et cetera.
I am trying to make blogging into my next hobby too, so there is going to be lots of self-referencing articles. I might change the site typeface and write an article about typefaces, for example.
In the end, I want this blog to be a place where I write articles as a fun and inspiring activity.
Hello, I am trying to contact you to know if you are the author of the font Herbiflora. I would love to know the license of the font (especially if it is OFL). Do not hesitate to answer by mail to raphaelbastide at pm dot me
Hi Raphael,
I am the author of Herbiflora, and it is OFL.
Though I’m pretty curious since I cannot even find it anywhere on the web — besides luc.devroye.org, a place I visited so often back then but never expected my name on it…
Clarification: despite the description on luc.devroye.org, Herbiflora was NOT created by deforming Times New Roman: each glyph was created from scratch.
Anyways, it was a very immature work. I’m not saying the style cannot be rescued, but the execution was.
Also, I think the “wrong” impression that it is a distorted version of Times New Roman contained certain truth: I was too “attuned” to that font at that time.
I have seen your website and have no problem with my font showing up on it (nor does OFL allow me to stop you), and I hope it brings amusement to people.
However, I don’t suggest anyone to use it in any serious design work of any kind.
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