TITLE: Sentences of the Day: Sheer Fun
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 09, 2011  4:29 PM
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From
<A HREF="http://iotic.com/averia/">
   Averia, The Average Font</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
Having found a simple process to use, I was ready to start.
And after about a month of part-time slaving away (sheer
fun! Better than any computer game) -- in the process of
which I learned lots about bezier curves and font metrics
-- I had a result.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Programmers love to slave away in their free time on projects
that put fires in their bellies, with no slave driver other
than their own passion.

The story of Averia is a worthy one to read, even if you are
not particularly a font person.  It's really about how the
seed of an idea can grow as our initial efforts pull us
deeper into the beautiful intricacies of a problem.  It also
reminds us how programs make nice testbeds for our experiments.
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