you know what they say, when the Lord closes 34 tabs, he opens 34 windows
22.10.2025 19:14 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1@apetersen.bsky.social
Hello (including you, trolls ๐). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan.
you know what they say, when the Lord closes 34 tabs, he opens 34 windows
22.10.2025 19:14 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Spoilers!
10.12.2025 04:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A friendly reminder that TYPEFACE refers to a style of lettering (e.g., Calibri) while FONT refers to a specific weight and size of a typeface (e.g., Calibri Bold 12 pt)
10.12.2025 02:21 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I did know this, I just didnโt want to use it, in all honesty
10.12.2025 04:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not so much Keeping The Lights On (KTLO) as Dying On The Vine (DOTV)
(Do they call it a sub-Sky here?)
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Still true.
08.12.2025 22:24 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Important in the same way having more than one person responsible for something crucial is. If that one person is out sick, on vacation, gets hit by a bus, or wins the lottery, that thing can fail.
(Not currently speaking from experience or anything, swearsies) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_fac...
Important in the same way having more than one person responsible for something crucial is. If that one person is out sick, on vacation, gets hit by a bus, or wins the lottery, that thing can fail.
(Not currently speaking from experience or anything, swearsies) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_fac...
We're living in a moment when the impulse is to streamline everything, minimize redundancy, and cut waste (using AI or not). Martin Landau argued (1969) that another word for redundancy is reliability. It's a risk management tool. Some forms of redundancy are helpful and others are not.
08.12.2025 19:40 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Oh hey nice coat ๐
27.11.2025 05:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Very agree on 1 and 3.
27.11.2025 05:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sorry if I don't engage with your political posts. It's not that I don't see them or don't care. It's just that the hatch act is real for people like me.
04.10.2025 17:58 โ ๐ 54 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โr/datahoarding usโ is *chefโs kiss* (ใ)
17.11.2025 00:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I miss when technology used to be fun.
16.11.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 725 ๐ 125 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 24We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:โ
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James Gogginโ @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morlaโ
John Stevensโ
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanuevaโ
Julien Priezโ @boogypaper.bsky.social
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#100Tens
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens โ 50 โ1โs from the Archiveโs collection paired with 50 new works from a range of todayโs leading designers.
#LetterformArchive #100Tens
But do you find it grotesque? Or comic? Impact-ful, perhaps?
22.09.2025 01:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sansโฆ
22.09.2025 01:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Screenshot of @john_attridgeโs tweet (in a sans-serif font) saying โItโs nice but do you have any sans-seraph fonts?โ with a photo of a winged angel kneeling, supporting a basin
This is a font joke.
20.09.2025 20:19 โ ๐ 338 ๐ 45 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 4Or the Great Knit-Off (itโs Danish): youtube.com/playlist?lis...
16.09.2025 12:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches Iโve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than youโve ever procrastinated before, I got you
OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.
11.09.2025 21:52 โ ๐ 239 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0# hi
11.09.2025 01:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mightโve tagged me incorrectly?
11.09.2025 01:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0# hi
06.09.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle in a spotlight on stage, saying โthatโs the jokeโ into a microphone
So popular all of a sudden, but Iโve been following the NDS for years. ๐
Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl
(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. Thatโs the joke, as they say.)
My voice dropped, so Iโm going to say I count for this.
โGive Me One Reasonโ by Tracy Chapman
This story is beautiful.
15.08.2025 02:17 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0