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Hey type peeps — does anyone remember a blog post? forum post? article of some sort that rather convincingly (I seem to remember) made the point that the rupee symbol should have a hard join on top instead of following the curve of an R bowl? Can’t find this again
See, I do need caffeine
Eastern, that is
Going to be on Good Morning America this morning among a gaggle of my beautiful running friends from Front Runners New York. Send caffeine (and tune in if you’re in the country — between 8 and 9am)
Happy Pride month! I’ll be running the LGBT Pride Run in Central Park, and am joining my fabulous run club’s fundraising efforts for Lambda Legal’s indispensable work defending LGBTQIA+ rights in court. Are you with us? 💕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊ www.givengain.com/project/nina...
It better! Congrats.
I guess “he’s an on-aire” doesn’t sound very compelling
If a “millimeter” is 1/1000 of a meter, a milligram is 1/1000 of a gram etc, maybe the amount that is 1000 millions should just be called “on”.
Welcome to my brain
Wikipedia says a tomato is a berry. I officially give up on trying to understand anything
Right. Even less room for it there!
What a great question. Looks like the website is down. I’ll email Andreas Stötzner (the editor of the series). Worst case I might have a spare!
The tendency I found is that cross-stitch alphabets are much more ornate than pixel fonts (makes sense considering usage and physical size) but sometimes forms can get very similar — bottom 2 lines here show a cross stitch & a screen font respectively
That’s awesome. FWIW I researched this kind of stuff (pixel type avant la lettre) far too many years ago — it’d be nice to dive into it again and in more depth/with better methodologies, given time etc
Indeed, and especially the history of “letters composed from little squares or other elements” is fragmented between histories that (compared to typographic history) are barely connected, spottily preserved, and sometimes barely researched: handicrafts, masonry/construction, mosaics, etc.
Oof that’s gorgeous. Not sure about “the first”, for instance alphabets for cross stitching go back to the 16th century, according to Pouchelon: Abécédaires Brodés (2001):
I’ll be in Geneva next Monday giving a talk about our new type for New York City FC: www.hesge.ch/head/eveneme... (announcement is in French but talk is in English — streamed too, see link towards end of text)
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Almost completely unknown is the second of the two flags created by Baker and others in 1978, which had a field of stars and one errant ‘queer’ star sewn into the turquoise stripe, gold on one side, silver on the other. this flag is gone now; I’ve only seen it in this one clear photo
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I suspect those particular ones make good doorstops. Haven’t tried tho. (Congrats!)
A disagreement on R’s, on a Sunset Park (Brooklyn) storefront.
I would like to meet the person who drew the seal emoji. Look at this delightful creature.
Misread: “scheduled outrage”
“Where is our Emigre?”
Yet again, J Dakota Brown said better then me what is desperately missing in our field: we have no place to discuss our profession, collectively.
(Screenshot of his IG story)
We were always clamoring for it but I don’t think we ever got there, at least not before I left 🤷
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