![]() Note: On macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer, TypeTool 3 offers Windows-like user experience. TypeTool 3 offers a basic, reliable workflow for font creation, glyph drawing and multilingual glyph design, to spacing and kerning, with automatic hinting. It is a great option for beginning type designers wanting to get started on designing typefaces and creating or modifying fonts, without a major investment. It is the little sibling to FontLab Studio 5, so it has most of the same tools, plus the same interface used to create most of the world’s commercial fonts. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who occasionally need to create or customize fonts. ![]() We explored variation in patterns of percussive stone-tool use on coastal foods by Burmese long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis aurea) from two islands in Laem Son National Park, Ranong, Thailand.TypeTool is our basic font editor for Mac OS and for Windows. We catalogued variation into three hammering classes and 17 action patterns, after examining 638 tool-use bouts across 90 individuals. Hammering class was based on the stone surface used for striking food, being face, point, and edge hammering. Hammering class was analyzed for associations with material and behavioural elements of tool use.Īction patterns were discriminated by tool material, hand use, posture, and striking motion. ![]() Action patterns were not, owing to insufficient instances of most patterns. We collected 3077 scan samples from 109 macaques on Piak Nam Yai Island’s coasts, to determine the proportion of individuals using each hammering class and action pattern. Point hammering was significantly more associated with sessile foods, smaller tools, faster striking rates, smoother recoil, unimanual use, and more varied striking direction, than were face and edge hammering, while both point and edge hammering were significantly more associated with precision gripping than face hammering. Point hammering and sessile edge hammering compared to prior descriptions of axe hammering, while face and unattached edge hammering compared to pound hammering.Įdge hammering also showed distinct differences depending on whether such hammering was applied to sessile or unattached foods, resembling point hammering for sessile foods and face hammering for unattached foods. Analysis of scans showed that 80% of individuals used tools, each employing one to four different action patterns. The most common patterns were unimanual point hammering (58%), symmetrical-bimanual face hammering (47%) and unimanual face hammering (37%). Unimanual edge hammering was relatively frequent (13%), compared to the other thirteen rare action patterns (<5%). We compare our study to other stone-using primates, and discuss implications for further research. Tool use has been reported in a wide variety of animal species. From these reports, we know many animals use tools for a variety of functions, and employ tools of differing material characteristics and with different modes of actions. ![]() One form of tool use that has received more scientific attention recently, is the use of percussive stone tools on encased foods by non-human primates: West African chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus) robust capuchins Sapajus libidinosus and S. Xanthosternos and Burmese long-tailed macaques ( Macaca fascicularis aurea). ![]()
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