Anne Petersen

you know what they say, when the Lord closes 34 tabs, he opens 34 windows

Spoilers!

A 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)

I did know this, I just didn’t want to use it, in all honesty

It's another tough year for California wine grape growers Declining wine demand had growers across the state leaving high-quality grapes to rot on the vines.

Not 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.

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...

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.

Oh hey nice coat 😇

Very agree on 1 and 3.

Sorry 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.

“r/datahoarding us” is *chef’s kiss* (ツ)

I miss when technology used to be fun.

We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:⁠
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James Goggin⁠ @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla⁠
John Stevens⁠
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva⁠
Julien Priez⁠ @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 — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens

But do you find it grotesque? Or comic? Impact-ful, perhaps?

Sans…

Screenshot of @john_attridge’s tweet (in a sans-serif font) saying “It’s nice but do you have any sans-seraph fonts?” with a photo of a winged angel kneeling, supporting a basin

This is a font joke.

The Great Knit-Off (Big Knitting Contest) (Danish w/EN+DK Subs) - YouTube After nearly 10 years, English speakers and those who need subs in Dansk or English can finally enjoy ALL(?) 25 episodes of this show!* Subs not embedded in ...

Or the Great Knit-Off (it’s Danish): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.

# hi

Might’ve tagged me incorrectly?

# hi

Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle in a spotlight on stage, saying “that’s the joke” into a microphone

So popular all of a sudden, but I’ve been following the NDS for years. 👀

Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl

(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)

My voice dropped, so I’m going to say I count for this.

“Give Me One Reason” by Tracy Chapman

This story is beautiful.