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Valery 🍁✨
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I'm a designer, letter lover, & bookish lady. I make http://archives.design (she/her) 👩🏻💻💕
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Amy PapaeliasSpent four days in Stockholm working to finalize the typesetting for the Alphabettes Soup book with Bikini Books publisher Nina Paim and designer Tereza Bettinardi. 400 pages. 55 articles. 120 typefaces. 250+ contributors. This has been the most complex and humbling project I've ever worked on and I can't wait to share it with the world in 2026.
💚 Pre-order your copy and if you want to be listed in the book as a donor, there's still time to make a donation 💚https://bikini-books.com/products/alphabettes-soup
Henry WilkinsonAffinity is free, I have thoughts! If you want to know what they are you can click this link: https://wilkinson.graphics/blog/2025-11-01-affinity-is-free/
If you don't want to know what they are, you can do other things! Ride a bike! Watch the sunset! The world is your oyster!
It seems to be pretty 1:1 with Affinity V2 feature-wise, but with optional paid AI features. They also seem to have gotten Pantone swatches, but somewhat bewilderingly it doesn't have a proper light mode. Variable fonts seem to work properly but more testing is probably needed.
Looks like Canva is smashing all of the Affinity apps into an all-in-one app and letting people use it for free. 👀 https://www.affinity.studio/
Went on a hike to a nearby rural cemetery. I wish I had some charcoal to make a rubbing; maybe next time.
Martin> It might be one of the strangest typewriters I’ve seen – a weird combination of a machine pretending to be another machine pretending to be a human hand
Made a new app icon for @makeworld's app: Dithertime!
Check out his blog post about it here: https://www.makeworld.space/2025/02/dithertime.html
...Or grab it for yourself on Itch.io! https://makew0rld.itch.io/dithertime
Emily Velascoso, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
Brewster Kahle"Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug" go EFF!
"In Hachette v. Internet Archive, four of the biggest publishers in the world, are trying to shut down Controlled Digital Lending, which allows people to check out digital copies of books for two weeks or less...
Supported by authors, libraries, and scholars, the Internet Archive has explained that CDL is a lawful fair use that serves copyright’s ultimate purpose: enriching our common culture."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fair-use-creep-feature-not-bug
Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug
Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of the Communications Decency Act) as the legal foundations of the internet. But there’s another, much older, doctrine that’s at least as important: Fair use, which dates back many decades and it codified in law as Section 107 of the Copyright Act. Fair use is, in essence, the right of the public to use a copyrighted work in a variety of circumstances, without the rightsholder’s permission. It’s why a reviewer can quote from the book they’re reviewing, a parody video can include excerpts from a movie, and security researchers can copy a software program in order to test it for malware.