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Valery 🍁✨
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I'm a designer, letter lover, & bookish lady. I make http://archives.design (she/her) 👩🏻💻💕
@typographica I find it very funny that whoever composed the rectangular labels decided to change up the type from a sans to a reverse contrast, but only for Opium. Funnier still that a strong black coffee is the listed antidote 🙈 ☕
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@DunwichType if you're just worried about the acidity ruining the paper you could always remove the duct tape and swap it to cloth book tape. $20 dollar repair that at least kicks the can down the road a bit until you want to get it properly rebound.
I guess it really depends if you want it more as a collectors object or a book to be read.
@mitradranirban @admin curious to see what the policy is, but that was probably the fastest I've hit the block button in a while. No slop for me thanks.
@TiroTypeworks Festool is carried in person at Lee Valley in Canada. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some sort of exclusivity situation.
I live in a chaos household though; we have tools and batteries from Mastercraft, Black & Decker, Dewalt, and Makita 🙈
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
@hank Yeah I hear ya. Judging from what I've seen I'm hoping this ends up being more of a situation like Audacity post-Muse acquisition, where they use it as a funnel to their other products and continue to keep it free and make improvements. But it's hard to not recognize patterns.
@hank Anyways great read! I share pretty much the same perspective as you here. I was halfway thru Cory Doctorow's Enshittification when this was announced so to say that I was skeptical is an understatement. 🙈
@hank Another consideration: Canva is not only big in marketing–it's huge in education. My partner is a teacher and the kids and teachers all use Canva in some form. If I were to guess it looks like they are going for a generational vendor lock where the next generation of creatives are more familiar with their suite than Adobe's for the sole reason that there's no cost and no friction to using it.
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!
