I don’t know if this is gonna float anyone else’s boat, but it made my afternoon! The @stabi_berlin just uploaded its digitization of a specimen for Ramses, a serif typeface designed by Hermann Delitsch for Julius Klinkhardt around 1912. The specimen’s title page features a stylized ornament that depicts Pharaoh Ramesses II. I instantly recognized it! H. Berthold AG acquired Klinkhardt after WWI, and Joseph Tscherkassy – a Ukrainian-Jewish former typefounder who fled to Berlin during WWI – reused it on a page from his 1924 specimen of H. Berthold AG’s Hebrew and Yiddish typefaces. I instantly recognized it from that catalog. In some quarters, it is considered the most beautiful metal type specimen ever printed.

https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN1963801857&PHYSID=PHYS_0001&view=overview-toc&DMDID=

https://berlin.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=102887#map=1.38/1621.28/1361.67/0

This history of Apple Computer's first fifty years captures the ethos and the energy that drew me out to Silicon Valley in 1979:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

So much had to line up right to create this world-changing company, but most of all, the right people with the right goals had to come together. I'm grateful they did, I type out on my Macbook Air.

Gift link came my way via @gruber's Daring Fireball.

The Making of iA Notebook.

Follow along for a behind-the-scenes look at how our Notebook is made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnX84UtwMc4

CBM 8032 AV
computer graphics and sound [2016-2023]

https://vimeo.com/394414592

#commodore #cbm8032 #audiovisual

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116159366316414482

If you live and/or do business in the UK, please take a minute and check this out - and if you agree that Apple's and Google's proposals are too weak (understatement), *please* write to the CMA and tell them.