pablolarahMay 1
🔴 The Weekly Typographic
by #MicahRich & The League Of Moveable Type
Font Expressiveness Game #Typotheque
#Typographer
Cassis: Generous Geometry #Frerejones
GT Mechanik: aniti-nitification #Printmag
The Phenomenon of the #Cherubimble
#TheLeagueOfMoveableType #typography
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Matheo CadenaApr 16

📖 Type Thursday Book Club: Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. But does it hold up to it's reputation? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/type-thursday-book-club-elements-of-typographic-style-by-robert-bringhurst-tickets-1987585042366?aff=matheo

Live on @YouTube #TypeDesign #Typography #GraphicDesigner #Typographer #Designer

Matheo CadenaApr 16

📖 Type Thursday Book Club: Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. But does it hold up to it's reputation? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

https://youtu.be/CjTvnWYTnxo?si=lGCBH_jNH9X6-WF1

Live on @YouTube #TypeDesign #Typography #GraphicDesigner #Typographer #Designer

Type Thursday Book Club Review: The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

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Linotype PilgrimApr 14
Assuming I had a good enough wall, I'd buy these in poster format. Especially #4 #design #typographer

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 11
🚨 Breaking news, folks! A #senator is now moonlighting as a #typographer because, apparently, font choice is the hill to die on. 🤦‍♂️ Move over, Calibri, Times New Roman is back, and it’s bringing the thrilling intrigue of 2004 with it. 📜✨
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/ #BreakingNews #FontChoice #TimesNewRoman #2004Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
Jan Falk (ThistleArts)Dec 31, 2024
A reminder that I have a wonderful #bookishartists starter pack! if you're looking for a #coverartist or a #characterdesigner or #typographer follow those amazing professionals! #booksky #art #characterdesign #bookcover #illustration

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Project GutenbergJul 23, 2024

#OTD in 1829.

In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire.

https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=X5581&id=33563

This patent discloses the actual construction of a type writing machine for the first time in any country. The type are arranged on the under side of a segment carried by a lever pivoted to swing vertically and horizontally.

#typographer #typewriter

US Patent: X5,581 - Printing Machine Styled the Typographer

US patent X5,581 Printing Machine Styled the Typographer was issued to William Austin Burt of Detroit, Wayne County, MI. It was granted on 07/23/1829. Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. This is one of the

Rob Whiting 📓Dec 19, 2023

Last minute 🎄 Holiday 🎁 gift ideas for the #Typographer/#Designer in your life from I Love Typography. ⤵

https://ilovetypography.com/gift-ideas-for-designers-and-font-people/

I Love Typography

What is a good gift for a graphic designer? Amazing Gift Ideas for Designers and Font People. The perfect present for a designer.

I Love Typography
Murray GM - PaperpostsNov 28, 2023
This thread by @MauriceMeilleur on creating letterforms using python and his free tool Drawbot, and based on the work of Jurriaan Schrofer is wonderful.
I'm a sucker for #modulartype
#typographer #
https://typo.social/@MauriceMeilleur/111485819485509089
Maurice Meilleur (@[email protected])

1/ I’m beginning to create diagrams for draft chapters of my book on Jurriaan Schrofer’s constructed scripts, a ‘speculative catalog raisonné’ of Schrofer’s designs. I’ve organized it around the idea that there were five design schemata—think of them as centers of design gravity—that Schrofer worked from over the years, tweaking their parameters to yield scripts that share an underlying formal logic but vary—sometimes wildly—in appearance.

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Aitch - Þei/ÞemOct 4, 2023

Possibly stupid question for anyone who knows Microsoft Word from a #typographer and/or #designer perspective.

We use Poppins for all our documents (don’t ask) and since this typeface has been introduced, the letter i *always* capitalises. And I don’t mean in the typical way, a single I alone capitalising - I mean:

‘…the tiles on this page all contain additional Information, and this Information Is captured as links, so they appear In the elements list…’

HELP?