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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

One of the most mind-blowing use of my fonts in recent memory is now on @FontsInUse@typo.social : The Canadian Space Agency used my font Condor on the Artemis II mission patch for astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who recently returned from a 10-day voyage around the moon and back. The patch features artwork by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond and features symbols from the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. It’s truly wild that some letters I drew have traveled to space! https://fontsinuse.com/uses/76499/jeremy-hansen-artemis-ii-mission-patch

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Now on @FontsInUse@typo.social: an incredible use of my Slight Chance font for the recent PDD tour of the Indonesian alt-rock band Perunggu, designed by Under The Table.

It is such an unexpected joy to have a font inspired by something very specific (the early digital readouts of a cable TV weather channel...thanks @wpgne@mastodon.social @forceh91@techhub.social @ecweatherchannel@thecanadian.social !) and to see it travel across the world and get used so successfully in an entirely new context.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78504/perunggu-pdd-tour-and-merchandise

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Whether you read the Arabic script or not, please take a moment to check out FIT ARABIC, designed by the amazing @Sahar@typo.social and released today by @dogray@typo.social !

https://www.dograytype.com/fonts/fit-arabic

This next-level illustration is by Naime Pakniyat (https://www.instagram.com/naimepakniyat/) 🤩

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Part two of my two-part foundry launch happened 10 years ago today, when I launched Bungee from the bus as I was on my way to NYC for @Typographics@typo.social .

The website you see (djr.com/bungee) was designed with @nicksherman@typo.social and Chris Lewis. On this bungiversary I want to express my gratitude to them, and to the folks at Font Bureau and @googlefonts@typo.social for helping bring this typeface to life!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

New in 2026...introducing the The DJR Glyph Navigator! 🔡🧭

https://glyphs.djr.com

Why doomscroll when you can glyphscroll?

Featuring a random glyph from my font library each day via RSS and at @glyphoftheday.

Website created by the amazing http://miniware.team @nickisnoble@mastodon.online

Happy new year, and enjoy!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

Here’s what the conventional caps and lowercase look like for GIGAWARP. They’re bold, they’re wide, they’re modular, and in my opinion, they’re still pretty dang fun. I maxed out the 20 allotted OpenType Stylistic Sets, including: — Sharpened forms (“Emerge” vs “Dreams”) — i dot heights (“Sketptic” vs “Wisdom” vs “Vigilant”) — M, N et al with diagonal leg (“ENCODE” vs “CAVERN”) — Upright R (“VERSUS” vs “ERASER”) — Megaflicks-safe L (“STIMULI”, thanks @melvian@dragonchat.org !) And a whole bunch more...

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

And it would be illegal for me to call a font Megawarp and not give it super-slanted oblique, so I did.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

This is the siddham sign (಄) from Fit Kannada...I LOVE IT

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

My latest typeface is based on the cover lettering of a 1950s trigonometry textbook that was way more interesting than it needed to be.

The letters R and K are obvious standouts, but there’s a lot of subtle mixing of deco and humanist elements that made this typeface a joy to puzzle out.

http://djr.com/buckridge

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

’Twas a fantastic weekend over at fontsinuse.com @FontsInUse@typo.social

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Some BIG Job Clarendon is now on @FontsInUse@typo.social !

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78262/paul-cauthen-book-of-paul-album-art-single-co

Book of Paul is a 2026 album by Texan country artist Paul Cauthen. It was designed by Mitchell McCleary, with photography from Tyler Ellison.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

Things start to get really funky in the lowercase, where the default form of ‘e’ looks like a ‘z’, and the default form of ‘a‘ looks like a stylized ‘3’. But I think it kinda works in context?

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

Week one complete at https://pixelfed.social/glyphoftheday !

Manicotti
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX

Gimlet Sans
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE

Tortellini
AMPERSAND

Club Lithographer
LATIN SMALL LETTER K

Indoor Kid
DIGIT SIX

Slight Chance
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C

Nickel Gothic Stencil
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE

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Glyph of the Day (@glyphoftheday@pixelfed.social)

253 Posts, 3 Following, 124 Followers · A collection of beautiful letters? A beautiful collection of letters? You decide.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Fit in use for Heather Brown Electronicals’ new Darlene Compression effects pedal, designed by Graham McClanahan.

Read more on @FontsInUse@typo.social :

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73433/darlene-effects-pedal

And check out the pedal:

https://godsmom.com/products/darlene-compression

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@mwichary @glyphoftheday Absolutely! Sorting by family and by character are on the to-do list. A sneak peek...

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@nicksherman Thank you, Nick!! It was hard to pass up an opportunity to invoke the Fully Loaded Nachos sketch from “I Think You Should Leave”, but it wasn’t the exact metaphor I was looking for.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@behdad @pixelambacht @typearture https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee/issues/122 (Now I just gotta figure out how it’s done) Thank you both for your cutting-edge support!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@swithinbank@m.webtoo.ls I appreciate you sharing that! I’m so happy that you made Bungee a part of Tim and Tom’s special day!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@eWalthert Thank you @hdv !!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@AmeliaBR@front-end.social Interesting about mid-word vs end-of-word ‘e‘s! And yeah I agree that the other ‘a‘s have a more solid foundation...I just couldn’t resist trying the weirder forms. I should also mention that in addition to accessing the alternates via OpenType feature, I also have a (very beta) tool where you can drop on the font file and bake in your preferred alternates as the default forms... http://customize.djr.com Anyway thank you for checking out Megawarp!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@FontsInUse@typo.social Mike’s Maze is open until November 5th this year, so if you are anywhere near Western Mass this autumn, I encourage you to pay them a visit...if my fonts aren’t enough of a draw to get you there, the cider donuts should be!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@FontsInUse@typo.social @nicksherman@typo.social I visited the maze again, and this time brought my tape measure to discover that the largest cap height is indeed 40 meters, the same size as the Brexit protest lettering (https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28942/the-will-of-the-people-has-changed-andnbsp-le) More photos from my visit: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55689/mike-s-maze-2023-what-makes-us-human#comment-770061

Fonts In Use

“The will of the people has changed” – Led By Donkeys

This protest message from Led By Donkeys was ploughed into a field at Manor Farm, Wiltshire, UK. Via Eye magazine, who comments: “That’s what I call big type.” It’s big indeed: At a cap height of 40 meters (that’s almost 113,386 PostScript points), it’s said to be th

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@stefan @liaizon Thank you! Is this the kind of thing you are talking about? https://pixelfed.social/glyphoftheday

Pixelfed

Glyph of the Day (@glyphoftheday@pixelfed.social)

253 Posts, 3 Following, 124 Followers · A collection of beautiful letters? A beautiful collection of letters? You decide.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@jasonsantamaria Working on it! Originally we included the SVG code in the RSS post, which sometimes get displayed as image and sometimes as code. So I think we may have to generate PNGs on the fly.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

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@kupfers @glyphoftheday It’s still live! https://randomglyph.tumblr.com/

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@FontsInUse@typo.social @nicksherman@typo.social Which, it should be noted, is over 100x larger than the maximum font size that Adobe apps allow 😂

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@FontsInUse@typo.social @nicksherman@typo.social Haha yeah it seems like this is up there with those excellent uses! In case anyone is curious: I haven’t seen a satellite view of the maze (yet), so I used Google Earth to measure the height of the “DRINKING” field and estimated that the caps are 70–75% of the field’s height, which is 39m to 42.5m. The 148,600pt size I listed includes Fit’s built-in whitespace—the font size required to set a cap of that size, rather than the point size of the cap itself.

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@iDGS@mas.to @FontsInUse@typo.social I will allow corny humor in this instance 🌽

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@soundclamp @nicksherman It was decades ago so I don’t expect you to remember the title, but if you do I’m curious to hear it. I’m still searching for the designer of the trigonometry textbook cover that inspired this typeface!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 36mo ago

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@benmcramer@hoosier.social @FontsInUse@typo.social @nicksherman@typo.social lol I am too!

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David Jonathan Ross @djrrb@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@shankarux@mastodon.social 😀 Fit Devanagari, by Kimya Gandhi https://motaitalic.com/product/fit-devanagari/ Fit Tamil, by Aadarsh Rajan This will get an official release soon, but psst it is already available here https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/fit-tamil-variable and here https://fontstand.com/fonts/fit-tamil

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