Finally got a copy of Marie Neurath’s “Railways Under London” (1948). Cheapest available seems to be £1500… mine was orders of magnitude less!
Do you like my new Motorail poster?
[BRB double royal sized coloured map poster ‘Easy Guide to Motorail’ showing the routes of the services. Dated 1979. Folded.]
Is there a word for books that are difficult to catalogue because of divergent titles on cover, title page and spine, and titles that differ between editions?
Is this T design common in Russia or only Ukraine? (Kherson, earlier today)
One of the joys of running your own server is the power to create your own emojis.
@scott runs toot.typetura.com and has made emojis for each of his cats. Adorbs!
And also none of that ?s=…t=… rubbish that you get when you copy a Twitter link (remarkably, @jack@twitter.com has only just noticed this)
The slides deck of my ATypI talk is here. It’s all about the OpenType avar table, version 2. (With speaker notes too, so you get almost all that I said!)
#avar2 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jLiUvh4PoYz2sw0T0Fygj2HoMrBhmJQuGgAmoMc_Sns/
avar2 for ATypI October 2022
Mom, You Sure Can Rehydrate a Pizza (or: avar table version 2.0) Upgrading the ‘avar’ table so Variable Fonts can: Distort the designspace Blend parametric axes Sync HOI axes Get even smaller Thanks to ATypI for putting this conference together and for the opportunity to show this work. This talk...
At Carters Steam Fair with Sara Chapman, a Scammell ShowTrac (1948) and a lovely handpainted Scammell sign.
And here’s the railway guide from London to Southampton (1845) with a 1:12.4 aspect ratio.
Let’s see how this thing deals with extreme aspect ratios. Here’s the 88:1 Bayeux Tapestry.
