Elliot Jay Stocks

@elliotjaystocks
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đź“— Universal Principles of Typography
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Also, this will be stop #2 on the Fine Specimens book tour. If you want to follow along virtually via the medium of email, please sign up to my pop-up newsletter:

https://buttondown.com/notes-from-a-different-typesetting

Notes from a different (type)setting

A pop-up newsletter from Elliot Jay Stocks. Unlike Elliot’s main newsletter, Typographic & Sporadic, this one is focussed on short bursts of type-related travel. The next trip is the Fine Specimens European book tour, starting in March!

Next Wednesday, 1st April (this is not an April Fools!) I’ll be having a launch party for Fine Specimens at @Waterstones in beautiful Brussels.

The event kicks off at 19:30 and I’ll be in conversation with my good friend Paddy Donnelly. Come and join us! It’s totally free, but please do RSVP by emailing the lovely Waterstones folks at [email protected]

My awesome wife watched the video of me reciting foundry names and said it reminded her of this scene from Father Ted:

https://youtu.be/TcWT_SEJld0?si=BiSx19bCVVFbOhFf

Father Ted - Mrs Doyle guesses the name of a priest.

YouTube

Apologies for the vertical format — I made this video to please the Instagram algorithm — but it took too bloody long to edit to *not* post it here, too.

If you’ve been curious to know which type foundries have their work in Fine Specimens, here’s me reading them all out, with their logos overlaid.

For folks looking to get (back) into blogging, or get a super-simple personal site up and running, Pagecord (created by @lylo, one of the founders of FreeAgent) looks interesting. It’s giving me 2010-ish vibes and I mean that entirely as a compliment.

https://pagecord.com

Pagecord: Blog Without The Slog.

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It’s now been one whole week since the release of Fine Specimens and I’ve been so humbled by all the support. And last Tuesday’s launch party at Bookhaus with Jamie and the Letter Luvvers crew was amazing! Huge thanks to everyone who’s been supportive of the book.
@stefanfrede Thank you, Stefan!
@stefanfrede Thanks so much, Stefan! Very much appreciated.
@Luke Ah, thank you, dude!

The first issue of the book tour pop-up newsletter is going out tomorrow!

It covers Tuesday’s launch event in Bristol and some motivations behind the tour in general. Sign up here if you fancy following along:

https://buttondown.com/notes-from-a-different-typesetting

Notes from a different (type)setting

A pop-up newsletter from Elliot Jay Stocks. Unlike Elliot’s main newsletter, Typographic & Sporadic, this one is focussed on short bursts of type-related travel. The next trip is the Fine Specimens European book tour, starting in March!