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#type

IT News
6 hours ago

Shift Happens is a beautifully designed history of how keyboards got this way - Enlarge / Marcin Wichary's photos of an Olivetti Praxis 48 electric typ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1972356 #mechanicalkeyboards #interviews #typewriter #keyboards #features #printing #culture #design #qwerty #books #tech #text #type

Tech news from Canada
7 hours ago
Kristof Zerbe
4 days ago

#Link | Responsive type scales

This CSS calculation to create responsive type size by Tobias Ahlin is somewhat the sickest I’ve ever seen …

.container-adaptive {
–font-size: calc(var(–min-size) * 1px + (var(–max-size) - var(–min-size)) * (100cqw - var(–container-min) * 1px) / (var(–container-max) - var(–container-min)));
...
}

… but works great. It would only be nice if it were simpler.

https://tobiasahlin.com/blog/responsive-fluid-css-type-scales

#css #responsive #type

https://kiko.io/notes/2023/link-responsive-type-scales/

Costantine Sad
6 days ago

Apple Notes is great in every aspect except the most crucial one − typography.

1. For some reason, the embedded type SF Pro uses a single-story 'a'. You can't find this symbol anywhere else in system, except in Notes. It doesn't make any sense, and for me, every word with it dramatically stands out because it's unusual to see it in that typeface.

2. The app sets unjustifiably small leading, even with proportional typefaces. And switch to monospace, and everything quickly becomes a hot mess.

3. The contrast between different typography hierarchies isn't high enough, making it harder to read even small chunks of text.

Seriously, it baffles me. Apple boasts some of the best designers on the planet. Apple Notes is one of the most widely used apps on both macOS and iOS. Even then, Apple pushes out version after version with questionable typography. What a mystery!

To illustrate: SF Pro → SF Mono → iA Writer Mono.

#type #typography #appleNotes @ia

getmisch
1 week ago
patrick
2 weeks ago

For the #type #desing / #typedesign nerds out here. This kickstarter looks very cool and promising and i really hope she is able to meet her goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellolisahuang/words-of-type?ref=thanks-copy

Ronan
2 weeks ago

This is an interesting business, if you buy fonts. Some lovely work, but you can choose what you feel is a fair price, and the EULA allows for more uses than many others do; except temporary transfers, which are really handy when specifying corporate fonts to brands that don't have in-house design.
#fonts #type #design #graphicDesign
https://www.atipofoundry.com

Viy Sitante
2 weeks ago

As expected of myself, I am once waffling on what I said above 🤣

Besides changing to "Asteria's Luxury" (Asteria was Astemar's original name for her alter ego before I changed it to Astraea), I also realized I could try out "asteluxe" -- basically either a callback to Asteria or Astemar herself :blobcat3c: And I am really digging this, so who knows who wins out in the end...

In the meantime, while I once again made a list of fonts to try out and/or edit, here are some sketches I made using some of those fonts as an "inspiration." Although technically, the first one is inspired by one of my favorite logos that has always lived rent free in my head since I was like (checks calendar) five 😂

I will probably do something with these later digitally, keep trying to find a better look. #design #LogoDesign #type #GraphicDesign

Red pencil sketch of a logo idea with the word "asteluxe." This is shown in a jagged serif manner, with two rows where ASTE is above LUXE.
Red pencil sketches of two logo ideas with the word "asteluxe." The first one shows it in a fancy display type with mixed cases. The second one is in a thin and soft manner, all in lower case with the T and L being longer and breaking the grid. There is one line under the ASTE part and one line over the UXE part.
Ronan
2 weeks ago

I have an idea for a specific font design. It's a solution to a long standing small problem for my design studio, but I get too distracted in long processes, so it'll never be made. Maybe I'll try a binary typeface #type #design

getmisch
3 weeks ago

They are definitely on to something, hope they move quickly on this discovery. They're tagging damaged cells to make the body recognize them as aging, friendly cells, so the body stops attacking itself. Addresses Multiple Sclerosis, Crohn's disease, Type 1 Diabetes...
#cure #for #MS #multiple #sclerosis #type 1 #diabetes #crohns #disease #damaged #human #cells #attacked #possible #vaccine https://scitechdaily.com/new-vaccine-can-completely-reverse-autoimmune-diseases-like-multiple-sclerosis-type-1-diabetes-and-crohns-disease/

Sam at BLAG
3 weeks ago

I've updated my online shop with some new stock in the realms of sign painting and lettering. Some of these titles are the last new copies on sale anywhere in the world and once they're gone, they're gone.

https://shop.bl.ag

#advertisement #signpainting #signwriting #lettering #design #graphicdesign #layout #type #typography #ghostsigns #showcards #gilding #books

I use the words "partner" and "wife" a bit interchangeably these days depending on how much I care whether someone more or less thinks I'm their #type ...I certainly don't use it if it insinuates diminution. I'm in the leather district and I am quite big and #hairy

#soma #sf #cisproblems

Ronan
4 weeks ago
Gorgeous entrance to modern building, the East Quad at TU Dublin
The very small little, sustainable and reusable, stage showing the Fontstand welcome
Tjasker
4 weeks ago

Poëzie in #amsterdam - '#Humor is een zaak om serieus te nemen' | Poetry in amsterdam - '#Humour is a thing to be taken seriously'.
#type #typography #font #fontdesign #typedesign #thedailytype #lettering #fontinuse #typeinuse #graphicdesign #typeface #serif #TypeInAmsterdam

Ronan
1 month ago

In the late 90s /early 2000s at #NCAD the library were disposing of old books. I grabbed a copy of a #Letraset catalogue, which still regularly gets scanned for historical #type It previously belonged to a Niamh Lawlor, who I reckon was there a few years before me. If anyone knows Nimah, tell her thanks! I think she's with Púca Puppets

Letraset catalogue with Niamh's name emblazoned in black ink across it
Tjasker
1 month ago

'Parkeren voor Karel' sjieke #typografie met een eenvoudige voornaam | 'Parking for Karel' chic #typography with a simple first name.
#type #font #fontdesign #typedesign #lettering #fontinuse #typeinuse #typeface #serif #superiortype #TypeInAmsterdam

Tjasker
1 month ago
Waldemar Borth
1 month ago

Finally managed to print my own tshirt design :)

#design #tshirt #type #typography #typographie

Rozzychan
1 month ago

@sbarolo
A feels larger, and is more compact. Also some parts of B seem thin and faded out.

Even so, I like B better. Probably because the kerning of the period after the number and the Q is more interesting.

And the lowercase j has a wing that makes it easier to distinguish.
#type #typography #font

Opinions about portfolio websites? I seriously can’t be bothered coding my own. I tried Wordpress, too much hassle and options. I want basic, simple and quick. Will need to be able to host videos. The two I’m currently testing are below. #design #GraphicDesign #type #Typography #logo #branding #VFX

Art Grootfontein
1 month ago

🔤 My LETRAFLEX font family is coming soon!
(Thanks Hans Holbein for The Ambassadors)

#art #letraflex #fonts #typography #type #ttypographie #youaretypography

MacLemon
1 month ago

At this year's #BalcCon I'll be giving my second talk about #USB, continuing from 2k22. “USB, How does it even work?”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3w1LtLZfeI

This time I'll be covering the missing topics like power-delivery, alternate modes, #Thunderbolt, and USB4 on a high-level. (Not a technical deep-dive.)

What burning questions do you have about USB and particularly #Type-C, and #USB4?

Doublythumbs
1 month ago

Disassembly of a 1971 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. Sadly a tiny plastic gear broke and I can't find a replacement. I'll be parting this out, hopefully helping someone else and restoring their own Lettera 32.

#vintage #retro #typewriter #logophile #repair #disassembled #photography #photo #repairwork #restoration #olivetti #writing #typography #type

Olivetti Lettera 32
Steven Saus [he/him]
1 month ago

From 25 Aug: EMBER Study: Metformin Use Linked to Vitamin B12 Deficiency - https://www.hcplive.com/view/metformin-use-linked-to-vitamin-b12-deficiency #metformin #metformin-and-vitamin-b12 #metformin-side-effects #type-2-diabetes #t2d

Dav
2 months ago

What a wonderful watch: ‘Making Faces: #Metal #Type in the 21st Century’ → https://vimeo.com/829548891

(*Hosted/presented by @letterformarchive; As mentioned by @stewf, over at #TypeDrawers: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/63343/#Comment_63343 [Now I am even more curious about #Ikarus.])

https://player.vimeo.com/video/829548891?h=829c264167

TechHelpKB.com 📚
2 months ago

In theory, it is possible for an #AI to guess what you're trying to #type even if it can't actually see what you're #typing. https://tchlp.com/3Yw5ky5

Atle Mo
2 months ago

Can anyone tell me what font this is? Close to DIN, but not quite due to the angle on the 4 and 6 (among other details)

#Typography #type

C.
2 months ago

@lauren

This reminded me - if anyone here has not seen "Linotype: The Film", it's a fantastic documentary and well worth watching. If Lauren's post was interesting to you, you'll like the film.

#documentary #linotype #uppercase #lowercase #type

C.
2 months ago

@folkerschamel @zenforyen @kevin @ado

Actually, I think that #type #hints in the #function #signature are usually *better* than having them in #docstrings. Not only can they not get out of date / become wrong (without causing checking failures), static type checking is much easier this way.

FreeFontDownload
2 months ago

8 Bauer Bodoni Black 09033 in the font style is an ideal choice for adding a touch of fun to your designs. It belongs to the Regular font subfamily.
Download this font now-
https://www.freefontdownload.org/en/8-bauer-bodoni-black-09033.font

#freefontdownload #freefont #art #creative #graphicdesign #wallpaper #fonts #typography #calligraphy #design #webdesign #handwritten #calligraphic #type #typeface #lettering #handlettering #weddingfonts #ttf #otf

Tjasker
2 months ago

Het vakmanschap om duizend jaar geleden deze prachtige letters uit te hakken is ongeëvenaard | The craftsmanship to carve these beautiful letters a thousand years ago is second to none.
#coevorden @KasteelCoevorde #handlettering #handtype #typografie #typography #typographic #letterforms #type #typedesign

FreeFontDownload
2 months ago

Kacst Qurn is an excellent choice of font for your playful design projects. It belongs to the font subfamily KacstQurn.
Download this font now-
https://www.freefontdownload.org/en/kacst-qurn.font

#freefontdownload #freefont #art #creative #graphicdesign #wallpaper #fonts #typography #calligraphy #design #webdesign #handwritten #calligraphic #type #typeface #lettering #handlettering #ttf #otf

Carl Johnson
2 months ago

My most popular post (toot) here ever was a vinyl highway #sign that had gone wonky (pinned post). Since seeing that one, I've started noticing them all over the place, each one wonkier than the last. But this one may be the most remarkable – not only are the letters curling off, the entire green base of the sign has split and crackled in a way that looks like intricate line art.

More at https://www.instagram.com/signsandmarkers/

#signs #signage #VinylSigns #RoadSigns #typography #type #fonts #typefaces

Atop two highway markers for US 422 West and East in Royersford, PA sits an incredibly peeling vinyl directional sign indicating Pottstown (with an up arrow) and King of Prussia (with a right arrow). Not only the letters and arrows are peeling off the sign – the green background behind the white letters has completely deteriorated into what looks like pen scratches all across the sign.
Sam at BLAG
2 months ago

While working on the Mr Masking book, Pupila got him to paint a full character set in his distinctive style.

If anyone is interested in turning this into a functional #typeface for the benefit of his surviving family then please let me know.

Alternatively, you can contact Alfredo at Pupila directly via the email address given on today's post about Mr Masking and his work: https://bl.ag/the-magic-of-mr-masking-costa-ricas-king-of-tape/

#mrmasking #type #typography #font #signpainting #signwriting #lettering #typedesign

A distinctive hand-lettered block alphabet created using masking tape to create the outlines before filling the exposed areas with paint. The original alphabet has then been photographed and its essential structure digitised to be presented here as flat light grey letters on a white background. Also included are the numerals and some punctuation and special motifs.
Sam at BLAG
2 months ago

'The Magic of Mr Masking, Costa Rica's King of Tape' is today's despatch from bl.ag online: https://bl.ag/the-magic-of-mr-masking-costa-ricas-king-of-tape/

The feature looks back at the work of Mr Masking (aka Gerardo Picado, RIP) and the typographic vernacular he created in San José.

Thanks to the work of Pupila, a branding and graphic design studio, Mr Masking's legacy lives on in film, print, and photography.

#signpainting #sigwnriting #lettering #type #typographic #typography #sanjose #costarica #maskingtape #mrmasking

Man photographed from behind using blue masking tape to create the outlines of block letters on a white wall.

He has already completed the top line which snakes across the wall and reads "Mr Masking" and is currently halfway through the second line with smaller letters that will read "La Obra de Gererdo Picado".
Sam at BLAG
2 months ago

Little taster of what's coming later to BLAG email subscribers. It's free to sign up via https://bl.ag/free.

#signpainting #signwriting #sanjose #costarica #vernacular #lettering #type

Painted sign on a wall in a distinctive lettering style giving the opening hours of the shop in Spanish.
Sam at BLAG
2 months ago

'The Language of Printing' on Spitalfields Life:

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/02/the-language-of-printing-i/

e.g.

BATTER – Any injury to the face of the type sufficient to prevent it showing clearly in printing.

BOTTLE-ARSED – Type that is wider at the bottom than the top.

DEVIL – is the term applied to the printer’s boy who does the drudgery work of a print office.

RAT-HOUSE – A printing office where the rules of the printers’ trade unions are not conformed to.

#printing #print #language #type #typography #typesetting

Antique business calling card hand-lettered in a variety of styles with the following text:

Embossing & Other Presses, Endorsing Stamps, &c.
J.J. Baddeley
Lithographer & Printer,
Copper Plate & General Engraver,
Die Sinker, Embosser, &c.
25 Little Bell Alley
Moregate Street, London.
Account Books, Envelopes, Office Seals, &c.
Public Companies Seals, Monograms &c, Designed & Engraved.
Technotramp
2 months ago

@Catweazle

In that case, it probably makes sense that the #extension assumes a #URI #type, but it should at least say that it is a #QR of a different type. Instead, it tries to #read the QR code as a URI type, which I think is the extension's #issue.

1dark0ne
2 months ago

I saw a typography webinar today that was really cool that shows history about a ton of Mexican blackletter sign painting and hand lettering - the recording is up for free for a limited time - Cooper Union can normally charge hundreds of dollars for stuff like this - worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBUrx_uw4Es
#graphicdesign #typography #blackletter #type #design #lettering #handlettering

Sam at BLAG
2 months ago

I'm looking forward to this event later, who else will be logging on?

http://coopertype.org/event/a_beautiful_dark_heritage_a_historical_overview_of_blackletter_in_mexican_letterform_culture?ref=bl.ag

PS. Tomorrow I'll be sending out my periodic email digest of sign painting and lettering events online and in-person around the world. It's free to receive this, and you can sign up via https://bl.ag/free.

#blackletter #type #lettering #mexico

Promotional graphic for an event in blackletter which reads "A beautiful dark heritage, a historical overview of blackletter in Mexican letterform culture by Jesús Barrientos Mora".
Ronan
2 months ago

I tried not to stop on my #cycle today, but I'm too much of a #type nerd

3 images all details of the same thick plastic paint on the road saying SLOW in uppercase. White on a deep red.
Brian Sholis
2 months ago

Can I put the bat signal out among #type #typography @typo.social people? I'm wondering if this, found on a late-19th-century building in southern Ontario, is a typeface or a weird thing where some chopped out letters that had maybe been in-laid? I read "Customs and Inland Revenue" and "Examining Warehouse." Boosts appreciated. 🙏🏻

Isaac LeFever
2 months ago

And here's yet another type specimen I illustrated for MyFonts.com's last Fontacular promotion

#art #design #type #drawing #procreate #mastoart

Illustration of a bunch of sardine tins. one of them in the middle is open exposing 3 fish inside
Norbert Holstein
3 months ago

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Shelf from the herbarium of the NHM London full with red folders. Red folders contain type specimens, which are the very definition of a species. The shelf in the image is the NHM's collection of Stelis orchids from Tropical South America.
Mark Downie
3 months ago

A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived

"Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri"

#microsoft #design #type #fonts

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d

it's kat!
3 months ago

who's had too much exposure to the memphis group during my short graphic design course at #glasgow school of #art? don't worry: i know it's not good.
#design #type #abstract #memphisGroup #fuckArtLetsDance

digital fuckery that i barfed out in homage to the memphis design group (an italian graphic design company founded in the 1980s). abstract tableau in pink, yellow & white on a black background. the word 'escape' drops down the middle.

Hi #FediFriends! Hope all is well!

Only a smol post today, I decided to change my #avatar to my „official“(tm ^__^) #logo just to make it less confusing for people who visit me from my #website / #portfolio.*

Enjoy the #Monday and hopefully you and #nature get some #rain!

* T'is here: https://jfml.eu/

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #typography #typografie #logotype #type #creature

My logo, the letters jfml, in a pseudo handwritten blackletter type in red and light blue.
My old avatar a white fantasy-creature/animal on a blue background.
Daniel
3 months ago

Anyone interested in a new typeface?

For more than a year now I am working on my first own typeface in my freetime and just recently finished a first usable version of it.
While still unfinished, let me present it to you nevertheless:

DH Volltext, a serif typeface made for body text.

https://volltext.hnnng.space

It is free to download (SIL Open Font License 1.1). I would be happy and grateful for any feedback on it. :) Boosts are also welcome.

#typeface #typography #design #font #type #volltext

Of all the wrongheaded reasons to use #Typescript I think "so I don't have to write #tests" is the brainwormiest.

Y'all made people think they had to write #UnitTests for everything instead of just #FunctionalTests for the important things, and they hated it so bad they invented a new language to automate it and forgot they still need to write #tests.

#softwareDevelopment #webDev #javascript #testing #tdd #programming #type

Florin
4 months ago

Beautyful #type on this album #cover. It is a compilation of the magnetic tape underground in the #GermanDemocraticRepublic.
Want to listen? https://radiohoerer.info/release-tipp-magnetizdat-ddr-magnetbanduntergrund-ost-broken-silence/

#typography #ddr

The lettering “Magnetizdat DDR” laid out with magnetic band.
Art Grootfontein
4 months ago

#fontsinuse!
Here is my Bangel Black font on a book cover for kids published by Bayard Editions

#graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #bookcover #typography #type #font #typedesign

noko
4 months ago

🧡 we've helped @bygdepride with making a social media profile—featuring some simple typography in motion, playing on Bygdepride's mantra that love is love is love is love (is love is love!) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#graphicDesign #artDirection #creativeDesign #type #typography #inspiration #socialMedia #motion #motionDesign #motionGraphics #identity #identityDesign #printDesign #computationalDesign #pride #bygdepride #kjærleik

simplified instagram UI showing multiple posts appearing in a masonry-like grid of the Bygdepride festival programme for Monday and Saturday
Tunera Type Foundry
4 months ago

This typeface is coming to your screens sooner than you think. Stay tuned!
.
#comingsoon #typeface #fontrelease #font #freefont #staytuned #typedesign #typography #typographyinspired #type

A blue paragraph of text set in a bold consensed sans serif typeface on a black background, the words "coming soon" are highlighted with a pink colour.
Ronan
4 months ago

I'm sorry, but Flicktoy is not how I read the name of this font.
#type #typeDesign #rude

It looks like Fucktoy to me.
Ronan
5 months ago

I have huge distaste for this brand that is currently being lauded in the #graphicDesign media. It's simply weak #design. The #type offers nothing. The shape suggests that #NorwichCastle holds the exclusive rights to crenellations.
No part of this in any way tells me anything about that particular castle, or why it's unique. It basically says "generic castle"
It's a perfect example of something that happens too frequently in design; the lure of something new, shiny and fashionable

Norwich castle branding by the click
Matthias Ott
5 months ago

In case you care about the exceptional, innovative work of #independent #type #foundries and their designers:

I wrote about 24 of them in last years #IndependentTypeFoundriesAdventCalendar 🎄

Supporting them is a (typeface) choice! 🖤

https://matthiasott.com/notes/independent-type-foundry-advent-calendar-2022

Ronan
5 months ago

I'm typesetting today using Rene Bieder's Magnat. You don't have to try very hard to make something look stylish, if anything you have to rein yourself in and do less. #design #type #typesetting #graphicDesign
http://www.renebieder.studio/retail-fonts/magnat

Rodolfo
5 months ago

@louie

Such an extensive and fun #font family. If one has the means, the helmets and spaceship silhouettes in “Supplementary Private Use Area-A” make it worth the credits all by themselves. In another life, I paid more for less from the big #type houses.

#StarWars

I think #Unicode encoding proposal documents are a very underrated #type #design resource. Want to design this character you have never seen before, here is this helpful document with all background information you need and examples showing the character in context.

Too bad the earlier the character is encoded the rarer to have these documents.

Nicolas Rinaudo
5 months ago

@alexelcu I meant my initial point to be about autoderivation, not handcrafted codecs. You can handcraft codecs in Scala, you can also do so in typescript but it’s a lot less pleasant, this is true, but not what I’m arguing.

I would be surprised if the natural python encoding of a sum type was to be an object with a single field with the name of the sum’s branch - Left or Right, for Either. I suspect the natural encoding would be a field called something like #type, instead, like is idiomatic in typescript as far as I can tell.

This is pure supposition though, I’ve only done a bit of either python or typescript.

noko
6 months ago

✌🏻 snippet from another poster series from this year's @bygdepride—repeating the mantra «kjærleik er kjærleik» (love is love). Repeated until it's true, everywhere.

🏳️‍🌈 the word itself, «kjærleik» (love), is written in the prominent language in rural Norway, once again blending elements of Pride and Bygda.

#poster #movingPoster #typePosters #typographicPoster #typographic #goodType #creativeDesign #graphicDesign #computationalDesign #artDirection #typography #inspiration #printDesign #type

poster with animated content saying "love is love”, in norwegian, with big typography. changes color between orange and pink every few seconds. in front of everything is an outlined shape changing from a blob, to a flame, to a flag and to a heart.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕
6 months ago

Working on some type treatment. I start by printing out (on paper) 5 point type, then blowing it up on the copier 400% then again 300% and then cutting and taping down and crumpling and copying again and then scanning to a file.

This is not a font. This is unique. Some digital with a lot of analog mixed in.

This is what I did 30 years ago and damn if I didn't have a good time doing it then and now.

#type #typography #art #design #graphics

Manipulated art using a printer, copier, and computer.
Manipulated art using a printer, copier, and computer.