John D. Berry

Once more into #ATypI history, dear friends! I've just published the next chapter, this time on ATypI in the 1970s. Like all the chapters of this work in progress, this is a draft. Corrections & additions always welcome.

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Depends on the typeface, though.

So far, so tired.

I have just published a draft of the most difficult chapter of the ATypI history, on the association’s "Code Moral.” The Code was a core document of ATypI from its founding, although the first official version wasn’t adopted until 1963.

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Apocalypso. Oh, wait, that’s a movie.

Yes.

Will they mariner once again? I certainly hope not.

YouTube video by SILICON Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design (John D. Berry)​

The talk I gave last winter at Face/Interface 2025 on “Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design” is now up on YouTube.
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C'mon. This Guy is the present administration's Horst Wessel. Talking about him makes him bigger. Are any of the new sources talking about anything else? The rest of the world has moved on.

Homes? Hanging from a Christmas tree?

I only remember them from the early 1960s. There were later ones?

ATypI 2026 Call for Proposals - ATypI ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences. Stanford, California — HomescreenSharjah, UAE — Between For 2026, ATypI not only retu...

Only a couple of days left to propose a talk or workshop for next year's *two* ATypI conferences, at Stanford University and the University of Sharjah:
atypi.org/2025/07/23/a...

ATypI 2026 Call for Proposals - ATypI ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences. Stanford, California — HomescreenSharjah, UAE — Between For 2026, ATypI not only retu...

Now is the time to propose talks or presentations for next year's two (two!) ATypI conferences. Do it now! Deadline is August 27.

atypi.org/2025/07/23/a...

Donate to Support John D. Berry’s ATypI History Project, organized by John Berry Briefly: I am raising funds to complete the history of ATypI (Association Typ… John Berry needs your support for Support John D. Berry’s ATypI History Project

This campaign is now at 98%. All it'll take is another $398 to reach the goal. Pocket change for a billionaire!

One of the chapters that I'm intending to write will be about Typ09, the first ATypI conference in Latin America: Mexico City, 2009.

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Donate to Support John D. Berry’s ATypI History Project, organized by John Berry Briefly: I am raising funds to complete the history of ATypI (Association Typ… John Berry needs your support for Support John D. Berry’s ATypI History Project

I have just posted a new update on the progress of the ATypI history project. Take a look!

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Small-caps cat.

Yow!

Ostrogoths FTW.

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The ATypI history GoFundMe is creeping toward its goal. I have just posted a new update, with a snapshot from this year and one from years past.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-jo...

Tonight we had the second Type Seattle meet-up, with its somewhat more formal format than a simple pub gathering. (Not that there's anything wrong with those!) It's good to have a regular event for the local type community again, after the long Covid-induced lacuna.

That's quite a list of exceptions!

More of a bold, shadowed 19th-century modern typeface, but I don't recognize it offhand.

Actually, I think Vignelli was simply wrong about this. His choices of typeface were conventional, and not necessarily the best. But his insistence on keeping it simple was very much to the point. And he used that limited palette brilliantly. A great visual designer, and articulate in his views.

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After getting home from the 2025 ATypI conference in Copenhagen, I have added a new update to the GoFundMe. History continues to add to its own story.

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Ahahaha!

C’est si bon!

I have just published the next chapter in the ATypI history, about Type90, the 1990 conference in Oxford, which was a watershed moment for the type community.

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Since Instagram works differently from everything else, I posted this video clip from Typ09 in Mexico City.

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Time for a sprint to the finish. With over 80% of the goal already achieved, let’s see if we can get this over the top in the next week. Ready?

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