Jan de Jong (74!) of publisher De Buitenkant in the local newspaper today. About ‘koppermaandag’.
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Dutch Standard Alphabets
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mastodon 4.6.9Preserving the Dutch Standard Alphabets ✍🏼 by Jan van Krimpen and Sem Hartz, driven by the story of Dutch and British typographic designers around the Second World War. Starring Stanley Morison, Beatrice Warde, John Dreyfus and Willem Ovink. Featuring Monotype, Joh. Enschedé and Lettergieterij Amsterdam.
A forthcoming non-fiction book by Gerben Dollen.
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This brand-new brickwork irritates me immensely. Why simulate a curve with straight segments when you could make it truly round?
It brings me back to the early days of digital printing, when @eWalthert@typo.social complained about how awful printed type looked: curves rendered as polygons instead of smooth outlines.
Taking note of one thing and another.
Research at the National Monument on Dam Square, Amsterdam.
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@onpaperwings bring your travel bike, good fun!
@lttrspc@typo.social Sorry for not mentioning you in my post. I realised myself a while after posting. #brainfog
@onpaperwings@typo.social Can't really imagine you haven't a copy of *Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Printing Revolution* yet... https://www.facebook.com/groups/letterpressnorthamerica/posts/3866512376987482/
@eWalthert@typo.social Ik zag gisteravond 'The Secret Agent', filmtip!
@eWalthert@typo.social ze draaiden in Nederland in 2025 in de bios, vandaar. En ik zag er geen van deze in jouw Letterboxd, ook niet in 2024.
Riefenstahl is vervreemdend, zeker kijken. Ik zou alleen niet gemerkt hebben als de aftiteling een half uur eerder in beeld kwam, ze hadden gerust op een willekeurig moment een knip ✂️ erin kunnen zetten.
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@onpaperwings I guess you're aware of this https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search?q=linotype online collection, aren't you? When are you going?
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