Pere Farrando

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Typography aficionado, copyeditor, proofreader, typesetter, teacher, Catalan, he. I also teach at a master’s on Shifta by Elisava.
Other interests: fountain pens & ink, history of writing.
Account in Catalan: @preedicio
typography
writing
typeface
typesetting

Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

#language #war #cartoon #comic #humanrights

Get noodled.
Environmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep Using: https://theneedling.com/2026/02/08/environmental-hero-makes-fossil-fuels-too-expensive-for-anyone-to-keep-using/

I try to tell myself "Write in it anyway", and sometimes that works, yet I have a few on my shelf sitting there not doing much more than looking nice.

I'd never toss them away, though!

#Stationery #FountainPens

Cotypist: text prediction for macOS. Beta is free; later on, 10€ single payment. Works locally. https://cotypist.app/
Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac | Type Faster, Write Better

Cotypist: AI autocomplete for Mac. Type as fast as you think in any app. Save hours, reduce errors, and boost your productivity.

I love the fediverse but I still don't understand how to search on it, everything feels really divided and unaccessible. When I go on a profile outside my own instance (like mastodon.social), I can't even see user's post. I understand the point of the fediverse but it feels broken as a tool of communication.
When copyediting and translating, AI engines may be quite efficient, say 95%, but one must garantee 100% checking top to bottom anyway, so, you see, little gain here.
After the limited availability for a year, Wimaria Gotisch is now available to everyone ☞ https://fdi-type.de/fonts/wimaria-gotisch/
This was a useful explainer on hyphenation on the web. https://clagnut.com/blog/2395/ Thanks @Richr!
All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens. Updated January 2023.

My attempt at using #Typst has been frustrating. I can’t code, but I’m not entirely illiterate (for instance, I can use regular expressions). Asking a user to write a line such as `#show heading.where(level: 1): set align(left)` is not right.