@cyclography@typo.social Do you accept traffic lights? Ran into this one in Groningen (where landline telephone numbers start with 050)
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Matthijs Sluiter
@MatthijsSluiter@typo.social
mastodon 4.6.9Designer at Studio Het Mes, The Hague, NL / editor at Fonts in Use / Type Specimens at IG
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Finally, I have come to terms with the fact that I draw the way I do.
For years, you’d never catch me without a notebook and a pen. At some point, I stopped because of the pressure I put on myself. I felt increasingly awkward around bystanders and friends who – or so I thought – expected me to draw pretty or witty things. I began to hate my drawings, and drawing itself, to the point of disgust. But now enough time has passed, I think, and I’m happy to report that I enjoy drawing again.
More Berlin today: (Type) people pointing at things, with @fhardwig@mastodon.social, Fritz Grögel and @hectormangas@typo.social
Onomatopoeia
Adobe InDesign, get out of my car, now.
Dear type designers if you must release another type family this month choose the boring one. I will share a list with ten notable type releases from this month tomorrow and I don’t want to kill another darling.
Gardening mirroring life. Every time I visit my garden I am shocked by the green chaos that took over since last time, and after doing some work I leave with a neat little bouquet.
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@sol@typo.social We loved the recipe. Boris decided to eat vegan the other day, so I made a tomato/potato/onion/rosemary version.
RE: @glintveinlina@typo.social
I kept track of last month’s notable type releases for @typetodaynews@bird.makeup and could have easily selected some more good work.
According to ‘Dunbar’s number’, people can maintain stable and meaningful relationships with 150 others (including pets?). I’ve just finished reviewing well over 150 entries for the #tdc72 competition. Phew.
At least two handfuls of fonts that I used to hang out with must have vanished from my memory. I wonder who they are.
Interesting: foundries Fort and Hoodzpah offer their combined catalogues via a subscription service and an app, with the added bonus of one or (in the premium package) two lifetime licences per year of membership.
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@db @JTDType I also have the impression that the Display style is generally intended for font sizes larger than Headline.
Your naming in words suggests there is no Regular/Text size – there’s above average and below average. If that’s your intention, you could also go with:
XXL
XL
L
S
XS
A middle weight would be M.
R-Typography has been using a system like this for years (and I think they are not the only ones). It allows users to decide for themselves what they consider large or small.
Berlin Walls earlier this month, The Hague Wall this week.
Baked cake, fathered, stocked shelves, and read a bit in the latest Experimental Jetset, Statement and Counterstatement 2. From the remixed quotes section:
In short, we came across many examples of activism being inspired by archivism, and archivism being inspired by activism. This really made us aware of these twin notions – the archived activity and the activated archive.
(Quotation magazine, 2019)
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@jesseragan@typo.social @benkiel@typo.social And now David Pearson taught the audience that graphic design *does* sell copies
Here are four subtitled house numbers found in Berlin today #bilingualhousenumbers #subtitledhousenumbers #numbersofberlin
The roof of our studio is finally getting renovated and insulated which is really good news and please stop banging around up there don’t make more TL tubes drop from the ceiling switch off the damn techno and why is the sound machine right above my desk don’t set the roof on fire thank you.
As long as we hear them things must be going well.
And yet, he walks with his friend.
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@nika@typo.social @DunwichType@typo.social @letterror@typo.social I misread: “it’s not a bug, it’s a future”
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@daytonamess@typo.social Well done! There will be more parties, including fun ones, and parties that would be boring unsober as well.
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@monokrom@typo.social In The Hague, your best bets would be Fried Records (specialized in punk/garage/indie) 3345 (mostly new vinyl, but also decent stream of used records); Bert’s Records (90% used vinyl, lots of 80s, cash only) and Vinyl Grove (decent selection of rock and highlife, some collector’s items). All in or near city centre.
Andrew Bellamy from the Otherwhere Collective built Relay, a fontdrop website. It’s in beta stage and he asks for your feedback (via mail):
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@morningtype @FontsInUse The search suggestions – shown before hitting the Enter button – *do* suggest Commercial Type, and Commercial Classics.
Concept sounds silly, music is intriguing: Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers by Lieven Martens and Matthew Sage, released by Edições CN.
Titles set in @commercial@typo.social ’s Royal Ascot
https://msage.bandcamp.com/album/chamber-music-for-lawn-mowers
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@apsiapsi Fortunately, this feature (automatically generated alt text) was easily disabled. If it were not for Content-aware fill, I could still do all my work with the old Creative Suite.
Also, this feature may actually be welcome for many users. Since last summer, the EU Accessibility Act aims to make digital publications accessible to screen readers and search engines, etc.
https://dev.to/patrick_clancey/wcag-alternative-text-for-images-4dj7
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@fonolog@mstdn.social Die refresh-knop van tekstbots die elke keer een nieuwe variant van de prompt genereert is zo demotiverend. Eigenlijk laat die alleen zien dat er geen enkel kwaliteitsverschil is tussen de eerste en de zoveelste versie.
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@fonolog@mstdn.social Ik wilde hier een passend filmfragmentje plakken maar ik vind het niet terug.
Het is een Franse kostuumfilm (Dangerous Liasons, of uit die tijd?) waarin een hoftheoloog in een monoloog met veel grote gebaren en slimme gedachten het bestaan van God bewijst. Aan het eind van zijn betoog neemt hij glunderend het applaus in ontvangst van zijn toehoorders waaronder de koning. Overmoedig geworden biedt hij aan om de volgende keer met even veel gemak het niet-bestaan van God te bewijzen. Dat had hij beter niet kunnen doen: zijn publiek wilde een oprechte overtuiging, geen kunststukje. De theoloog heeft hiermee zijn eigen vonnis getekend (dood? gevangenis? in elk geval: exit).
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@kosbarts@typo.social Sure! I heard the ancient Greeks named almost everything after that font too for a while, so why not.
The gates to the #tdc72 entries for the Type Directors Club jury have opened. All jury members have one golden ticket, which places us somewhere between Caharlie, Umpa Lumpas and Willy Wonka.
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@putter @typotheque same here. Simultaneously testing test and the tester, as with all surveys 🙂
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@underware@typo.social If that farm is in The Netherlands, I want to be at that festival some day! And no, not my design.
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@fonolog@mstdn.social “... Dat is merkwaardig, want taal is niet bedoeld als een vloeistof die je zomaar vult en leeggooit”.
Ik denk dat ik toch maar liever zelf je column bedenk.
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