I don't know who needs to hear this, but @internetarchive has the complete set of Carl Sagan's 1980s Cosmos series online for free.

https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage

#astronomy #space #carlsagan

🥁 Welcome INDIA STREET LETTERING, the book! 🥁

I’m working with @blaft to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cityscapes into a book — a 200-page hardcover full-colour volume showcasing striking public lettering from around the country.

We need your help to make this book happen 🤝🏼 Our Kickstarter campaign is live. Please chip in, pre-order the book and share the project with everyone you know ➡️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/

10 minutes from now, TypeLab 2025 kicks off on the TypeLab Americas channel.

RSVP for free to join the Zoom:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/typographics-typelab-2025-tickets-1371585702759

Or watch the livestream on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/_898DlPRRQ4

Full schedule and other details here:
https://2025.typographics.com/typelab/

Still gathering Schrofer code … one recent update to @drawBot broke my original code for recreating the script patterns on the covers of Mouton's Les Textes Sociologiques series, but: revisions, et voila. Reconstruction, examples of the original covers, Schrofer's plan on graph paper, and a field showing the gamut of the variable font's horizontal/vertical stroke:counter axes.

Archive images courtesy the Jurriaan Schrofer Archive, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam.

I'm very proud to have helped release this new font my friend @helenemarian at @NaN !

👹Archy 👹 ON + OFF
Archy takes its roots in Marian’s practice of paint-brush lettering but processes it through a highly digital treatment, suppressing most its organic nature. What’s left is a sans serif in 2 versions, [ON] and [OFF].

https://www.nan.xyz/fonts/nan-archy/

Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

Some more details on the upcoming David Jury book about 20th c. type designers:

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-type-designer-see-stars/

[Qu’est-ce que le Cnap ?]

Le Cnap est un établissement public du ministère de la Culture. Il soutient la création contemporaine dans les arts visuels, accompagne artistes et professionnels, gère une collection de plus de 108 000 œuvres, et en favorise la diffusion en France et à l’international. Il agit comme opérateur culturel, acteur du patrimoine vivant et soutien à l’écosystème artistique.

👉 https://www.cnap.fr/missions/le-cnap-aujourdhui

On Monday, we are doing a Let’s talk type session during @Typographics

If we manage to tidy up, we will show the studio a little bit, but mostly it will be our talk Useless Fonts about our more speculative work. There is a limit of 100 people, book your spot!

https://2025.typographics.com/workshops/#useless-fonts