Marta Bernstein

@martabernstein@typo.social
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Nineteenth Century type obsessed. Research at Nebiolo History Project. CAST Foundry. t]m 09

Graphic & type designer, educator, creative director at Studio Matthews, Seattle.

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Marta Bernstein3d ago
Someone paid a visit today while I was on a call (working remotely)
Marta BernsteinJun 30
Back on the West coast after @Typographics means I am starving at 11:30am 🍝
Marta BernsteinJun 29
Craig EliasonJun 29
I'd thought Paul Renner, with his Futura experiments, was the first inventor of the detached lowercase 'r', but turns out the Speedball pen guys were years ahead of him.
Marta BernsteinJun 28
Show threadTypographicsJun 28
@fhardwig @nicksherman @stewf @laureola @lubalincenter Correct! There is more to see next to the steps too, in our small exhibition about Photo-Lettering (designed by Suyeon Kim, assisted by Oliver Coria, Jinseo Lee, Rachael Miller, and Lucy Pan).
Marta BernsteinJun 28
Fonts In UseJun 27
Thanks to @goodspeed at @Typographics for suggesting Fonts In Use as a place to find true and varied references to specific moments in the past (in an age when AI gives a false impression of design eras based on a tossed salad of samey pastiches of that past).
Show threadMarta BernsteinJun 24
(She still answered and graciously ignored it)
Marta BernsteinJun 24
I accidentally texted a new acquaintance calling her Shit instead of Shir, thanks autocorrect. How is your day going?
Marta BernsteinJun 23
Who will be at @Typographics? I will be around only Fri–Sat and looking forward to chatting!
Marta BernsteinJun 23
Fonts In UseJun 22

Aldo Novarese’s Stop lends itself to being customized. In 2008, @verbosus started a Flickr group dedicated to in-use examples of the display #typeface in which the letters have been customized: https://www.flickr.com/groups/customstop/

#FontsInUse has a growing collection of #CustomStop as well.
The latest addition is a sticker for The Pachinko Factory, contributed by @splorp: “The customization […] is delightful … especially the scattering of little #pachinko balls as design elements.” https://fontsinuse.com/uses/69205/the-pachinko-factory

Marta BernsteinJun 2
Christopher SlyeMay 31
I’ve learned that Robert Slimbach — one of our greatest living type designers — is being let go by Adobe. He’s near retirement, but I’m disappointed he’s being shown the door rather than leaving on his own terms. To me, it’s more evidence of Adobe’s waning interest in original type development.