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I find myself flip-flopping daily between enthusiasm for AI and despair at AI — although I suppose one is excitement about the technology’s potential, and the other is sensible cynicism about the industry itself.
Either way, the negative effects are real, and @beep is always articulate in his criticisms.
This review perfectly sums up what’s so good about the excellent Widow’s Bay:
“[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined. It’s an incredibly difficult tonal balancing act, and […] the show’s writers and directors pull it off with such aplomb.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/210089/widows-bay-apple-tv-series-menacing-hilarious-mash-up
The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder!
If you’re looking to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces in our library, add whichever Unicode code point you like (if you know it), or take a random one for a spin (if you don’t).
Kudos to @jakegiltsoff for the bulk of the design work and Jason Kisch for actually building the thing. Go and have a play!
I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Diana Varma on her Talk Paper Scissors podcast. This was my second time on the show and once again, she asked some great questions. Thanks for having me, Diana!
(You can listen to it from wherever you get your podcasts.)
https://www.talkpaperscissors.info/post/307-fine-specimens-with-elliot-jay-stocks-of-adobe-fonts
I love a beautiful book about typography (who doesn’t?!) and this one, that we’re about to get into, is a BEAUT! Our guest today is Elliot Jay Stocks and I am obsessed with his other book (Universal Principles of Typography) and use it as the textbook in my intro to typography class (it’s really, really good) and I couldn’t wait to chat with him about his new book, available around the world now!Elliot is a designer and author, known in typographic circles for his work as the co-creator of Googl
Well, the time has finally come: tomorrow is the fifth and final date of the Fine Specimens book tour!
I’ll be selling and signing copies of the book (and Universal Principles of Typography, too) during the breaks of @typeparis as well as speaking on a panel at the conference at the end of the day.
If you’re there, please come and say “salut”!
I always love reading @mwichary’s thoughtful analyses of software (and hardware) design, but this one, about a musical startup sound of a locomotive, really stood out:
“The engineers decided to change the logic to increment the tone [caused by power converters] in precise few steps resembling a musical scale, rather than allowing it to rise continuously.”
https://unsung.aresluna.org/some-say-it-sounds-like-an-alto-saxophone/
I was about to do a recap post for the London leg of the book tour, then realised I hadn’t yet posted the Düsseldorf one! So here we go.
I’m so grateful to @marcthiele for letting me tag the tour onto his wonderful @btconf. Special thanks to Amy, for handling payments while I signed books, and to @charis, who took most of these photos.
I’m delighted to say that the first blog post I’ve written for Adobe.Design has just gone live!
It’s all about optical sizing: where the concept originates, why size-specific type is important, and how to implement it with the latest variable fonts in desktop apps and on the web.
Hope you enjoy it!
