Canvas in 30 days 👀

grant 🍞@toast.ooomod to

Canvas@toast.ooo – 163 points – 2 weeks ago

canvas.fediverse.events

turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days

July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT

https://canvas.fediverse.events

✨ this year’s event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!

(you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc) (peertube accounts will not work)

you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @canvas@fediverse.events link

chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (they’re bridged)

Nice! Hope this time the message reaches more people, last year I saw a lot of commenters that would’ve participated but didn’t know about it.

You can also share this in !fediverse@lemmy.world, there are a lot of people there :)

you're right! totally forgot to post it there

here's the new post there: https://toast.ooo/post/3741538

Hooray, Spread it around everyone! :3

Super stoked

Last year I was bothered by the randomness of fonts even in single words and sentences, and started that font guide thing. Immediately afterwards I tried to plan a nicer looking frame for it that can fit more, and have it for this event if anyone wants that or cares.

I also want to get anyone's opinions on changing letters to be better if you have ideas, because I'm sure I'm not the best at this but I want it to be appealing enough to use.

The main 2 things I tried to focus on is readability, and making sure each symbol can fit in 5x3 pixels.

Looks great! You could probably even squeeze in a semicolon, square brackets, and curly braces.

Wait, it's been a year already since the last one? Damn

UTC: 2024-07-12 04:00:00

UTC-2: 2024-07-12 02:00:00

(Seems like UTC-2 is my favorite time zone now even if I'm not there)

UTC+8 (Philippine time, PHT): 2024-07-12 12:00:00 (PM)

How big will the canvas be this year? There was a fair bit of whitespace last year, but even with minimal notice limited only to Lemmy, it was almost the perfect amount for everything to fit without overlapping

it'll be 500x500 (from 1000x1000 last year)