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👋 Designer / author / speaker 📗 Fine Specimens 📗 Universal Principles of Typography 👨💻 Adobe Fonts ⌛️ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom ⚠️ (Views are my own) 🔗 https://elliotjaystocks.com/links
Huge thanks to @printmag.bsky.social for the big ol’ “Type Tuesday” feature on Fine Specimens! Deb asked some really great questions and I had a great time answering them.
www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...
Thanks, Jeff!
Last night’s launch event at @bookhaus.bsky.social was so much fun! Thanks so much to the shop for having us, @jamieclarketype.bsky.social for running the chat, and everyone who came out.
Still sourcing some photos, but @cityeditionstudio.co.uk’s was the first one on Bluesky!
Oh, thanks for the photo, Jono! I saw you from the ‘stage’ but yeah, didn’t get a chance to say thanks for coming!
Thanks mate!
Thank you!
Oh wow, nice! Thanks for sharing this, mate!
I can hardly believe the day has come, but I’m beyond thrilled to say that my new book is out! In theory, if you walk into a bookstore today, you should be able to buy or a least order Fine Specimens.
Just published a post on the blog about the book, the book tour, and the book tour newsletter:
It’s book pub week! Tomorrow is the first date on the Fine Specimens UK / EU book tour, and that means it’s also the start of the pop-up newsletter I’m writing for the tour’s duration. Care to lend me your email address and join me on this trip?
(Also, who’s coming to the Bristol event tomorrow?)
This worked, by the way. Thank you, @leannerenard.co.uk! /cc @kilianvalkhof.com
Ah, me too, man!
There is something so wonderfully surreal about getting this reply from Bluesky you while watching giant YouTube you talk about Glaze on my TV. 😆
Glaze — a new app-making app from the @raycast.com team. Intrigued!
Thanks, Leanne! I’ll check it out now.
Oh, thank you! I’ll check that!
Have I got any friends here who are experts in OG images? Mine work everywhere, but never show up properly on LinkedIn (e.g. www.linkedin.com/posts/elliot...). It always falls back to the main one for the site rather than the OG image for the page or post. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
The new newsletter is heading to inboxes right now! In this issue:
— news about my books
— new font releases
— new-to-me foundry discoveries
— type designer interviews
— typographically inspiring websites, tools, and streams
— a discount code for @typeparis.com Now26.
You can read it online, too:
I’ve got a new issue of my #typography newsletter going out tomorrow morning! New fonts, type-related events, book news, new foundry finds. It’s a big one. Here’s a sneak peek.
To get it straight to your inbox, please consider lending me your email address over on elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter
I’ve really loved reading the weekly ‘Tiny Talk’ interviews that my good mate @tyfromtheinternet.com has been posting, so was thrilled when he asked me to join the lineup. Mine’s live here:
Oh, nice one! I think Luke will be there, too.
Bristol friends! Come and celebrate the release of Fine Specimens with me!
On Tuesday 10th March, @bookhaus.bsky.social are very kindly hosting the launch event in collaboration with Letter Luvvers. This is also stop #1 on the Fine Specimens *book tour*!
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e149...
The @beyondtellerrand.com podcast is live! It was so nice to chat with my very dear friend @marcthiele.com about my new book, Fine Specimens, and the motivation behind it. The episode is available anywhere you get your podcasts!
The always generous @hoosiertypeco.bsky.social wrote some very kind words about Fine Specimens in his newsletter — and took some lovely photos, too. (Thank you, Daniel!)
hoosiertypeco.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Had a lovely chat with @marcthiele.com (one of my oldest and dearest web friends) this morning for the @beyondtellerrand.com podcast. Talked lots about the motivation behind Fine Specimens. The episode will be out very soon, apparently (and the book in just over two weeks)!
Very nice!
I did a quick flick-through of Fine Specimens, which comes out very soon: 10th March in the US and 12th March everywhere else. You can pre-order yours now from anywhere that sells books. geni.us/FineSpecimens
The news is out! @beyondtellerrand.com Düsseldorf in April — a conference I love and am very excited to be attending — is also an official stop on the Fine Specimens book tour!
Come and say hi if you’re at the event (or nearby)!
(Thanks for making this happen, @marcthiele.com!)
But Jottacloud has a notion of the Archive, which — as a mental model — just makes a lot more sense. Upload those lesser-used folders there, then delete them from your local machine. It’s far more future-proof than hidden/visible folders right in your main file structure.
I don’t want to jinx it before I’ve fully migrated, but so far I’m loving Jottacloud.
The biggest hurdle in migrating from Dropbox has been having to download “Selective Sync” Dropbox folders before re-uploading them. Selective Sync is something your future self will *not* thank your past self for.
