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Fonts as puzzles: Can you solve them? A font created by Erik and Martin Demaine. The Demaines, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine and Katie Steckles via The New York Times. by Siobhan Roberts (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse — is of unknown origin. “That kind of fits,” said Martin Demaine, an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s a puzzle where the word ‘puzzle’ comes from.” His son...