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08-Feb-2024
Typography and Nick Simson’s 26 Days of Type
In the 1990s I would buy the magazine “Serif” (a site with a lot of broken links) at World Book & News on Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood. I enjoyed it. When I bought my first Mac at the UCLA student bookstore I bought a copy of Fontographer. I never made much of a font with...
10-May-2022
Keming is a real word!
From Ironic Sans, David Friedman’s newsletter: 60: The Case for Keming. It’s his argument for the inclusion of “keming” in the dictionary. I have been following Ironic Sans a long time. I remember reading his original post, I believe via RSS: Idea: A new typography term in 2008. Sign The Petition
12-Mar-2018
Wow calligraphr.com!
I found out about calligraphr.com in this article from freecodecamp.org. It was extraordinarily easy to use calligraphr.com’s template image, load it in Procreate on my iPad Pro, sketch out letters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, some punctuation, variant letters and ligatures, upload and there’s a font. Almost too easy! Want this quickie font? Here are two fonts, zipped...
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19-Oct-2016
Font Awesome is… Awesome
I came across Font Awesome (@fontawesome on twitter) the other day helping out a pal on a project. How had I not heard of this? It’s a rather nice web font that includes lots of glyphs. You can use them by adding their library and adding a bit of markup. I made a little explorer...
05-May-2016
#handpainted
#faded
#typography
#sandiego
09-Oct-2015
it is shaky on the bus
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30-Jan-2011
Vertical Capital Letters
After High School, I flailed. Which is to say I took classes at Mesa College without much of a focus. I enjoyed these classes. Drawing, History of Film, Psychology, Design, Architectural Drafting, Philosophy, Marketing, Broadcasting, Broadcast Studio Operations. This was in 1987-1988 — before we moved to Roanoke Virginia and I shifted my focus to...
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21-May-2009
Watch Jerk, then watch Chank
I prefer Chank.
11-Oct-2007
Morning is the time for Miscellany
Danah Boyd is surprised to be used as a pack mule for some great marketing. I think it’s the nature of the beast. When something hits your gut, it’s natural to try and promote it. Taking a step back and realizing you’re part of someone’s street team can be a little disorienting! Via The Beat,...