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Ben Kiel

@benkiel@typo.social

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Typeface design & bicycles. Runs XYZ Type with Jesse Ragan

397 Followers

117 Following

32 Posts

Joined November 07, 2022

XYZ Type, the company website:

https://xyztype.com

The dormant personal site:

https://benkiel.com

Github:

https://github.com/benkiel

Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@TiroTypeworks@typo.social @svgeesus@mastodon.scot it's been years, so it's likely fine to say now: Rich Roat (RIP)/House Industries, and others helped fund the unpaid labor from the type community and send type folks to those meetings as observers (I was one) so that the type community would be well represented.

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 2mo ago

Hot take: Your default for a script typeface should look good with no OT features on. Regrets, I have them.

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Hey, @jesseragan@typo.social and I will be in LA this coming week for a bunch of events, and to meet studios and designers: if interested hit us up!

Jesse Ragan (@jesseragan@typo.social) - typo.social

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 2mo ago

@eWalthert@typo.social @xota@mastodon.sdf.org I think we are fun at parties!

Edgar Walthert :NoWar: (@eWalthert@typo.social) - typo.social

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Songs from teenage years are now the music at the dentist old

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 3mo ago

Hold up, is that a lift of the UvA library in Chicago?

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 3mo ago

Anyone from Holland going to Typographics who would be willing to take copies of Identity Is Variable back to the EU?

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@behdad @onpaperwings @tphinney I think a lot of this is cost: a variable font is sold for the family price, which it is the whole family, but that $ can scare away customers. This is a thorny one!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 4mo ago

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-sisyphus-am-ninety-five-percent-of-the-way-there

Feel that

I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There

“The remaining 5 percent concerns only the final portion of the hill, the tendency of the boulder to inevitably roll back down to the very beginning, the ete...

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kai @klim Have been that person in the back of the hall old

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 11mo ago

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@frankrolf @pixelambacht @ohno listen: you find a talk for me to give in holland so I have reason, I load a suitcase of books

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mark yes, more XYZ Type answers!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@florian @justvanrossum there is https://github.com/LettError/glyphNameFormatter

GitHub - LettError/glyphNameFormatter: Generate list of glyphnames from unicode names.

Generate list of glyphnames from unicode names. Contribute to LettError/glyphNameFormatter development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@frankrolf @jenskutilek @kai I mean, that's the best possible sale. So, maybe more Kurutoga soon!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mark the jokes, they write themselves

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@onpaperwings Thank you! Book mule found!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Anyone from the states going/fleeing to the Fontstand conference who wouldn't mind transporting five slim books? This assumes that the print schedule works out for your travel date!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@kai .0022, blues so hard

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@onpaperwings at what point does Ms. Wilson start to suspect that this is an elaborate solo vacation ruse?

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@pixelambacht would be happy to offer polymode

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@jenskutilek does feel like there should be!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@arthurfontzarelli you can share numbers docs, but yeah

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@rosetta@mastodon.design the kindest

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@typemytype @frankrolf @pixelambacht @ohno Really, I'm serious here!

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 20mo ago

Replying to

@jhilden@vis.social will throw Studio Letting Swimg by Ken Barber into the mix: language based alts for many many things based on writing preferences/style of different countries/languages. Was a beast to develop the OT code

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 31mo ago

Replying to

@csimpkins@typo.social So confused — “Fonts are dangerous!” “Here are three attacks we found in tools that make fonts, not fonts themselves, but we will present this as Fonts are Dangerous!” (Yes, fonts are actually dangerous, but this is a bait and switch)

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 41mo ago

Replying to

@jesseragan XYZ Type: we aim for understated marketing

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 31mo ago

Replying to

@csimpkins@typo.social Cute clickbait title, however

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

@onpaperwings neon green mustang on astroturf ftw

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@onpaperwings looks like they built a fair number of these, however! I assume that they are all one family conversions by now

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Ben Kiel @benkiel@typo.social

· 26mo ago

Replying to

@jla@typo.social is it on German keyboards yet?

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