After taking almost two years off, I’m starting on the #PencilKit version of #LetterSet again.
I had to rebuild the masking as before it only worked on a single letter, and I thought “oh this would be easy to scale across multiple views” but I was very wrong. I’ve also switched to a pixel-based output, which more easily allows for letter mistakes.
Making it so you can accidentally screw up the adjacent letter has taken so much work. #PencilKit #LetterSet
Works on iPhone too (barely). #PencilKit #LetterSet
Oh you thought I was done pushing this into the realm of absurdity? Nope! How about repurposing a page curl metal shader to emulate translucent vellum?
As an aside: can I just say how annoying it is to have a single surface that needs to move, rotate, curl and accept pencil input?
#PencilKit #LetterSet
Almost all of the pieces are together for the MVP. Letter color is now selectable and ignores dark mode, pen size has two options, the gesture system has been completely redone (as a single UIRepresentable that handles both rotate and move). Major next step is a moveable canvas, and an eraser.
The eraser is the challenging one, as I’m rendering pixel data from a PKDrawing, and so the eraser has to manipulate pixels (luckily already separate from the background).
The iPhone version is still not something I’ve looked at in the least, but the app itself is starting to look SO GOOD.
@stroughtonsmith I’m not ready to use the showcase 25 hashtag yet, but I’m very close.
Ok I got it working on the iPhone too! It’s … hilarious. #LetterSet #PencilKit
I tried to explain to my kids yesterday how the my new app works and … what’s it called when you use one outdated metaphor to explain another?
Maybe this needs a new term?
- Deuterskeuomorphism: using an outdated object or interface to explain another outdated object or interface.
Test views are the best views. #LetterSet #PencilKit
Okay #typography fans, I've created a TestFlight sign-up form. If you want to play around with the existing version, please sign-up here: https://letterSet.app.
