One of the great logos, achieving everything that we hope for: it’s meaningful, recognizable, relevant, practical, reproducible, memorable, and fun. RIP, Jean Widmer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...
One of the great logos, achieving everything that we hope for: it’s meaningful, recognizable, relevant, practical, reproducible, memorable, and fun. RIP, Jean Widmer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/a...
In December, I casually sent a vacation photo to Paul Lukas, a friend and fellow obsessive, because it had an inverted “H” that I knew would give him a giggle, or vex him, or both. Two months later, amazingly, these 2,000 words:
www.inconspicuous.info/p/h-bomb-a-f...
Fantastic, Brendan — thank you for finding this and sharing it! (Off to smear some mentholatum under my nose, à la “Silence of the Lambs,” and see if that holds back the nausea.)
17.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m really glad they left “regulating commerce” on the table for all those Star Wars prequels.
17.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Surely someone has tracked his collected posts, and scored them by how quickly he makes them about himself. At 39 words, this feels about at par, but I’m not a scholar, and lack the constitution to wade any deeper.
17.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
HOW have I never known the word “logodaedaly”?
17.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I thought Pillion was (10^24)?
16.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not many people remember that Washington’s father created the role of Val in “A Chorus Line”
16.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Say what you will about AI, but it's the only technology that’s ever managed to effectively combine mansplaining with the ritual apology
16.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now I'm hearing this to the tune of "Que Sera, Sera"
16.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 62 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 2Note, he mentions “Killybegs, Kilkerry, and Kildare,” but can’t do a fellow a solid and include “Killarney,” which is a perfectly respectable variety of raspberry plant. This obvious fact, known to me for nearly one full minute, could have cemented a highly asterisked half victory on a technicality.
13.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Ish," he says! (How's The Kale In Glocca Morra?)
13.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Me, incredulous: “Sumbitch mentions rutabaga, arugula, and even *rampion,* but can’t slip us a little *kale*?”
13.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0A great piece of information visualization by Prof. Christina Pagel — and maybe the first time I’ve ever seen a toggle between “Classic UI” and “New UI” that shows two equally great interfaces. Bookmark and share!
13.02.2026 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The good news is that you never need to say “Ixflinambdafrt,” you just need to remember that it’s the thing your doctor interchangeably refers to either by its trademark name “Celefebraxis” or its category name “the modal BFAI inhibitor”
12.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
I'm right there with you! We talk about this a lot: the yearning to create, and connect with people and things in a more meaningful way, for a simpler, uncomplicated way of life. Which is I assume what it means to establish, fund, and operate a not-for-profit arts foundation in a remote locale
31.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also a portable MRI
22.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Indeed, “The dictionary” is a red flag!)
20.01.2026 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Found on Threads; bringing it here so @jessesword.com and @korystamper.bsky.social and @skleinedler.bsky.social and @benzimmer.bsky.social get to enjoy.
20.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
ScanSnap! Haven't heard that name in a while. I'd have pegged you for a TurboScan user (which, btw, is terrific, fast, and right there on your phone.) apps.apple.com/us/app/turbo...
20.01.2026 05:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sarah I believe it is actually Filet-O’s-Fish
19.01.2026 22:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Update! Follow Emily at @museum.of.emilyk.art.
15.01.2026 22:23 — 👍 113 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
15.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 10084 🔁 3406 💬 67 📌 73I dropped Apple a line tonight to see if anything can be done. Happy to volunteer my time to QA the results.
09.01.2026 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a shame. I put countless features into the typeface that both serves readers and showed off the abilities of TrueType GX, case-specific dashes, enclosures, monetary symbols, legal & reference marks included. Things worked in the version originally shipped, & in my version @ typography.com.
09.01.2026 23:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In case anyone needs a hint:
jonathanhoefler.com/articles/his...
Achievement unlocked!
Next stop: NYT Crossword fill.
