Simon Davies

When you really hate falconry but you have to do it anyway
#relatable

Just the most cutest witch's familiar you ever saw 😊🐶

I was reading last night about the Cobden-Sanderson/Walker feud, that ended with C-S dumping all the Doves type in the Thames; mostly seems like the feud began because C-S felt he was doing more work than Walker on the press 🤷‍♂️

The world continues to get stranger and stranger; here we have discussion of the work of Stanley Morison on a national news broadcaster in 2025. It’s nice to hear things like letterspacing discussed so publicly, but I do wish the world was a little less insane

No thank you 😅

Such a downgrade 😔
(I have no idea)

I think maybe they just looked up generation definitions from a source that was 10 years old lol

There’s a lot to unpack here tbh

I’m also a bit annoyed by ‘red head’ when they mean ‘redhead’

I have a lot of questions about this. First up is I’m older than 35 and I’m absolutely not Gen X 🤨

I’m a little sad I don’t live in a time when a university press can operate from an enormous ostentatious pilastered building on Madison Avenue 😔

I know that feeling! My worry is how to respond, like I genuinely can’t thank them enough haha

I always wondered what happened to that edition!

That's supposed to put people off going there, right?

Why in god’s name would anyone even consider embedding ‘AI’ in the REF? Like why would this thought even occur in the first place? Something would have to be extremely wrong with the brain that came up with that

Absolutely. Hiring a professional proofreader is usually not allowed at UG level, so why should a (much lower quality) robot version be allowed?

I thought the same. This new-fangled field everyone’s talking about..!

Early Modern Merchants and their Books Abstract. Early Modern Merchants and their Books offers the first dedicated study of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of seventeenth-ce

Interesting-looking new book from OUP by a former colleague of mine:
#earlymodern #bookhistory
academic.oup.com/book/60681

a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him

Maybe I like 'static printed objects'

And, quite frankly, further evidence that they should never have made a Th ligature in the first place... 😄

Hah, they do not! Well Minion Pro doesn't. Which is a little odd because it is a typeface that attempts to cover all languages. Though how often is Tþ gonna come up 😛

Yes a ligature; the second one in the list is the first with ligatures turned off (but just for the Th, not the ffl; I was testing whether I could do that!)
Robert Slimbach clearly changed his mind about it, cause he introduced it in Minion Pro but then removed it in Minion 3 (which I recommend btw)

Hello everyone, what do you think about the Th ligature? I'm starting to quite dislike it.

Top to bottom (all Adobe): 1. Caslon, 2. Caslon with ligature switched off for Th, kerning -20, 3. Aldine, 4. Minion 3, 5. Minion Pro

(The more I look at it the less any of them look right?!)

#typography

My face when I have to write something/anything

Fun with paragraph breaks; who says you need to stick to boring old indents?!
(Insel-Verlag edn of Also sprach Zarathustra, 1908)
#bookdesign #typography

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It's horrifying beyond belief, the consequences of this are going to be truly devastating, and felt for many years

I got a really rude reply to a totally reasonable email from a large US university press a couple of weeks ago, and it's made me reluctant to engage with the press in any way. Silly, of course. But the lack of solidarity was really something.

There was a bit of this sort of thing in the Lord Mayor's procession in London the other day, all the still-extant guilds etc. were there. I only caught a bit of it but there was a giant inflatable joint of lamb.

Wonderful news, thank you!