Jonathan Hoefler

At my age, don’t I ever

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Making a Type Documentary — Jonathan Hoefler Things I learned making the Netflix documentary "Abstract"

I’m a report! Thank you, Carolyn, and thanks for the kind words about both Decimal, and Abstract. Making that episode was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.

More about it, here:

jonathanhoefler.com/articles/mak...

I’m hopeful that New York’s terrific new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, can finally heal the divide between people who say “ceramist” and people who say “ceramicist”

HOW did you resist replying "Come on"

Journalists, when you write that someone is “her generation’s Elphaba” or whatever, please know that I want to smack you just as hard as I did twenty years ago when you wrote that someone was “their generation’s Dumbledore” or whatever.

DAMMIT I was going to post that

That's Mr., JONE’S to you, buddy

wait how fast was the train leaving Chicago I NEVER GET THESE RIGHT

James Mosley's History of Letterforms - YouTube James Mosley’s lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication over many years. They represent ...

James Mosely's series of lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for everyone to watch:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Too ept! False advertising!

Just what’s in that image!

A page from the 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, charmingly including a little tableau of BIRD HEADS.

There’s going to be a printed 12th Edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary! Even if you’re living that digital life, you should order one, for the splendid and thought-provoking delight of opening to a random page and seeing something unexpected. → hflr.io/mw12

I regret not adding “Crazy motherfucker named Irving”

Also, I’m going to start using “Straight Outta Camp Upton”

God, that's like a meta-spoof, a fake Irving Berlin ginned up for “Our Dumb Century” or 30 Rock. Just splendid.

I so want this to befall “Yaphank.”

I knew I could count on you to get to the epicenter of this issue.

C and I have that too, but for me it's less of a "joke" than a "good and righteous evolutionary adaptation that refuses to acknowledge well-established words being used in counterintuitive and wrong ways, despite whatever also-ran definition appears in the dictionary in last place."

Mancounian, ([sp]?) Are we talking a sleeper from Manchester, or a large, long-haired, brainwashed cat?

Although, "faint biotic"; maybe it IS?

Oh, yes. The brand names are confounding. I thought XELJANZ was the most preposterous, but I think it's actually an improvement over its own generic name, TOFACITINIB, which is one of those words that just screams backwards (like "echidna"), or anagram (but isn't.)

A near-cherihew!

You might enjoy this, btw: apparently there is a method behind the madness! A mad method, to be sure. Nonetheless: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomencl...

Reposting, because:

1. CLANKER
2. words generally
3. H&Co fonts on the website!

I wish I could say it was my real one! It's about twenty takes in Notability on the iPad, vivisected and picked over, stitched together, and redrawn from scratch in Illustrator. :)

Hoefler&Co acquired by Monotype — Jonathan Hoefler

Ah, maybe! From 2021:

jonathanhoefler.com/notes/2021-0...

Thanks, J.Z.! I'm glad they've kept the blog alive. At last count, there are about 144,000 words of mine on there, and this post was one of my favorites!

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I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
Give me a call. I'll be here until around six.

— John Clare