I keep thinking about camcorders. Imagine being a videographer for the first 10 or 20 years after camcorders went on sale. You'd go through the following thoughts:

"Everyone can make movies? This is going to kill my job."
"Haha, this is trash. My job is safe."
"Quality is getting better but it's still trash."
"It's trash but people are kind of happy with it? For recording memories and having fun it does what they need."
"OK, quality is actually getting decent, you could maybe shoot a pro movie on this. Worried about my job again."
"What is my job? Now that anyone can shoot videos, it's obvious that it's not just pointing a camera and making a movie. It's knowing light, angles, sound, timing. Both the camcorder, and my job, have their place."

Anyway, back to coding.

The #fontstandcon2026 Friday Workshops are almost sold out! Don’t miss your last chance to register before they are all gone.
Check the full schedule at the conference website:

https://fontstand.com/conference

@justvanrossum @joanacorreiatype @ShokoMugikura @fritz_groegel @fhardwig

RE: https://typo.social/@fontstand/116052833566464273

Fans of Round Sans around the world – come join my talk! I’ll be sharing rich visuals and taking a closer look at the details, history, and cultural context of Round Sans in Japan. 😃🇯🇵

Speaker for the #fontstandcon2026:

Co-founder of Just Another Foundry @jaf @ShokoMugikura will examine why rounded sans carries authority in Japan, tracing its roots in calligraphy, signage, and multiscript typography — and why it means something very different outside Japan.

https://fontstand.com/conference

>>> sorted(['🥚','🐤'])
['🐤', '🥚']

#python #unicode #meme

Any competition is a game of chance to some extent, but one can strive for objectivity. These twelve TDC72 Type Design judges provide such a wide range of perspectives on so many aspects of type design.
As a TDC72 Jury President for Type Design, I'm so proud and thankful that they agreed to join the jury.
Perhaps this lineup will inspire you to submit your work!

https://enter.tdc.org/judging

#TypeDesign #TDC #TDC72

James Mosely's lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for anyone to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh8Q6TpPxtgxSG6DEuOrH9iKx9bh6Pr7G

This is a really interesting cross between a segmented display and a regular dot-matrix display. I didn’t notice these extra small segments until I was reviewing the photos later.

This is a Bang & Olufsen Beo 4 remote.