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
Pere FarrandoDec 10
This lilac color (a kind of purple not tending towards magenta) is what I was looking for. It’s Pilot Iroshizuku Murasaki-shibiku. Please, don’t mind my writing, those are just informal notes. The 8 millimeter guideline helps me keep my lines on place.
Pere FarrandoOct 23
Placement of folders touching margins in MacOS Tahoe and those hugely rounded apexes are ugly, very.
Pere FarrandoOct 15
Many thanks to (someone at) #Typedrawers (https://typedrawers.com/) for suggesting the secondhand bookshop Collinge & Clark in London: https://www.collingeandclark.co.uk/ You can jump out of the Tube at Russell Square (Piccadilly line), walk up Marchmont Street and turn right at Leigh Street.
Pere FarrandoSep 9, 2025
Chinese fountain pen, Majohn P139, F nib, very soft. #writing #handwriting
PD: Lined paper suits me. Without lines, my writing tends to enlarge itself vertically and lines become a mess.
Pere FarrandoMay 4, 2025
Team of teachers of the Master’s in Editorial Design and Typography (Shifta, Elisava). We look very well.
Pere FarrandoDec 12, 2024
Fountain pen and ink go badly with xerox paper. Funnily, I can proofread using a Lamy extrafine nib and Cherry ink by KWZ.
Pere FarrandoNov 2, 2024
Two new bibliographic references in my document «Materials per a l’estudi de la tipografia i l’ús de la lletra tipogràfica»: Barbara Tversky, *Mind in motion*, and Jacques Anis, *Texte et ordinateur*.
Pere FarrandoJun 29, 2024

Setting the beginning of every word in bold seems a nasty way of meddling with the eye, the brain and even the information that the text is supposed to convey in a clear and efficient manner.

June 2024
#typography #legibility
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Pere FarrandoJun 24, 2024

What I ask Casutt, then, is: What makes you think that messing with the way our eyes function will produce reliable results?

June 2024
#typography #legibility
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Pere FarrandoJun 21, 2024

Dyson delves into all the relevant aspects of legibility, from the nature of the support (screen or paper) and presence/absence of serifs to line spacing and layout.

June 2024
#typography #legibility
Download: www.preedicio.com/obra/obra.html#obra17