Mastodawn

Since 2019, I’ve been writing a Turkish typography newsletter for the Turkish Typography Society, covering both global and local developments in the field, alongside my research on vernacular typography.

Past issues on Medium:
🔗 https://medium.com/tipografi/all?topic=ttt-haberler

New issues are now published on Substack:
🔗 https://tipografi.substack.com/

#Typography #TypographyNewsletter #Substack

Türkçe Tipografi Topluluğu

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Türkçe Tipografi Topluluğu

Esintype Feb 5

David JONES Feb 4

This is another release of mine that originated in Advent of Type. Andily is a digitisation of Lydian (Chappell). Since the Advent of Type release, i've added the little letters, dashes, and typographic quotes (use the OpenType Layout feature case to get ones that match the capital letters).

The repertoire is limited, following the original US PTO scan, but i like this font, so i will be adding accents and stuff, but no timetable so far.

It's ideal for book covers (about half the uses of Lydian on FontsInUse are books).

Please share and enjoy!

https://drj11.itch.io/andily-font

#Fonts #Andily #Calligraphic

Esintype Jan 25

Florian Pircher Jan 25

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LightTable/115957205877334546

The latest update to my type-design Git client brings many quality of life improvements. There is now also a Version menu directly in the menu bar for easy access to common actions. The foundation is set now; looking forward to adding many more useful things this year.

Esintype Jan 1

Indra Kupferschmid 💙💛Jan 1

Let’s start 2026 with the really important topics:

- This is not a dash but a hyphen. We use it to hyphenate words or connect them.

– This is an en-dash and it is used for ranges, lists and relations – in all languages – and with spaces around it for parentheses in many languages, including UK-English. You can also use it as a minus if you don’t have a minus.

— This is an em-dash and it is used—ridiculously tightly spaced—for parentheses in US-English. And nothing else.

Esintype Dec 21

I can personally confirm that this is true here.

I have a version (similar?) of this story, like 22–23 years ago, in which the owner of a construction company, who is a local politician and happened to become an “architect,” asked me how many square meters the website I was going to design would be and tried to bargain with me over it. He was serious. Still they are.
https://functional.cafe/@joomy/115749500002317829

joomy (@[email protected])

the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy: > Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.

Functional Café

Esintype Dec 21

joomy Dec 20

the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:

Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.

Esintype Dec 10

Antonio Cavedoni Dec 10

In the immortal words of Matthew Butterick: “And never choose Times New Roman or Arial, as those fonts are favored only by the apathetic and sloppy.” https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html