Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Schoenberg's archives are destroyed

https://slippedisc.com/2025/01/disaster-arnold-schoenberg-archive-is-destroyed-in-la-fires/

Today, I am grateful for @internetarchive and all online archives, and the institutions that doggedly do the tedious and often thankless work of making them go. Like @SLUBDresden & @arthistoricum who digitized and host the seminal German design magazine Gebrauchsgraphik (which was once available only at IADDB, a site currently offline due to a rebuild): https://www.arthistoricum.net/werkansicht/dlf/112648/1

Here are rock solid snippets from just the first issue in 1924.

#Gebrauchsgrafik #Lettering #Typography #GraphicDesign

Talked to @nicksherman @fhardwig and @stewf about @FontsInUse, evil Instagram, fragile designers' egos and typography research

https://type.today/en/journal/fontsinuse