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Elliot Jay Stocks

@elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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👋 Designer / author / speaker
📗 Fine Specimens
📗 Universal Principles of Typography
👨‍💻 Adobe Fonts
⌛️ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom
⚠️ (Views are my own)

2224 Followers
352 Following
50 Posts
Joined August 21, 2018
My blog:
https://elliotjaystocks.com
My newsletter:
https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
This makes for an amusing and sobering read. “No external dollar of profit has entered this system. Nobody outside the circle has paid for anything useful. But every valuation in the loop just went up, because each company can now point to the others and say look, demand is exploding [...] It is a group of friends standing in a circle, each handing the next one a ten dollar bill, like the three stooges, all of them now feeling considerably richer.” /via @densediscovery@mastodon.social https://webaligo.bearblog.dev/tokenomics-are-coming
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

[1/7] For the last 6 months, while searching for a Spotify alternative, I’ve tried all the streaming services, slowly writing a blog post about my experience with each.

Now that post is finally live! And here’s a brief thread if you’d like the main points summarised.

(Views are my own, obviously.)

https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/spotify

Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative
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Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago

I can hardly believe the day has finally come, but I’m beyond thrilled to say that my new book is… out! In theory, if you walk into a bookstore today, you should be able to buy or a least order Fine Specimens.

I’ve just published a post on the blog about the book, the book tour, and the book tour newsletter. The tour kicks off tonight!

https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/a-book-a-book-tour-a-newsletter

Elliot Jay Stocks | A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!
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Elliot Jay Stocks | A book! A book tour! A book tour newsletter!

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder!

If you’re looking to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces in our library, add whichever Unicode code point you like (if you know it), or take a random one for a spin (if you don’t).

Kudos to @jakegiltsoff@mastodon.social for the bulk of the design work and Jason Kisch for actually building the thing. Go and have a play!

https://labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/glyph-finder

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Jake Giltsoff (@jakegiltsoff@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

RE: @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com

I find myself flip-flopping daily between enthusiasm for AI and despair at AI — although I suppose one is excitement about the technology’s potential, and the other is sensible cynicism about the industry itself.

Either way, the negative effects are real, and @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com is always articulate in his criticisms.

follow.ethanmarcotte.com

Ethan Marcotte: "🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as …" - beepin’

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago

Lovely to see a new website from Suitcase Type (whose Tabac superfamily I used for Lagom a few years ago):

https://www.suitcasetype.com

suitcasetype.com
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

I made a better way to buy my books from my own website: go to https://elliotjaystocks.com/books, hit “Buy directly from me”, then select your region.

Unfortunately, shipping rates are stupidly high and I can’t compete with Amazon. But you do get the books themselves at a discount (£26 instead of the £30 RRP), they come straight from me, and they can be signed (if you want).

Elliot Jay Stocks | Books
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Elliot Jay Stocks | Books

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

In an attempt to leave Spotify and try all of the music streaming services — and finish my long-in-the-works blog post about my experience with all of them — I decided to try Qobuz, somewhat reluctantly, as I’d dismissed as looking a bit ‘meh’.

But not only am I surprised at how it answers pretty much every gripe I have with the others streaming services, but customising it with @jonhicks@mastodon.social’ theme makes it considerably better. (Thanks, mate!)

https://hicks.design/journal/qobuz-theme-v1-2-for-qobuz-beta

Qobuz Theme v1.2 for Qobuz Beta - Hicks.design
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Qobuz Theme v1.2 for Qobuz Beta - Hicks.design

The Qobuz Beta for desktop brings with it some big changes, so I

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

New on Adobe.Design: a short piece by me on using grade to elevate our typography.

If you’ve not encountered grade before, it might at first seem rather like weight, but where weight serves to differentiate (adding emphasis and contrast to text), grade’s purpose is to unify (bringing consistency to text that looks different when it shouldn’t).

Huge thanks to my editors, Laura Feinstein and Sue Garibaldi!

https://adobe.design/ideas/keeping-type-consistent-in-changing-conditions

Keeping type consistent in changing conditions
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Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

Grade is a subtle typographic adjustment that preserves visual balance across shifting contexts

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago

Loving the CRT vibes of this year’s Web dev Conf site.
https://webdevconf.com/

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference
WDC

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago

Has anyone tried opening an existing Claude Code project in Claude Design? The disconnect is bizarre. You can change things, but they don’t get pushed back to the main project — they exist in a weird limbo of duplicated files.

I even asked Claude specifically, and it said: “The recreations are a sandbox: a place to try changes and see them, decoupled from the real site.” It’ll then give you a new, heavily commented CSS file to paste into the actual one, which surely must be a stopgap, right?

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

Fellow writers beware! I got an email from a major publisher a couple of days ago and I was confused why it was so obviously written with AI. I had a brief exchange, as the responses seemed semi-legit, but something still smelled off. This is it:

https://writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/watch-out-for-this-scam-impersonating-editors-at-major-publishing-houses/

Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware
Writer Beware

Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware

I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whether they have a literary agent. I’ve posted a number of examples below. Apologies for so many images, but I wantedRead More

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

I hope my friends on Substack will once again consider leaving the service that gives a platform to abhorrent people like Andrew Tate.

(via @kottke@mastodon.social on Bluesky)

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

The Fine Specimens book tour has come to an end, and my last pop-up newsletter, covering the final stop in Paris, is almost ready to go out. (Turns out I had more to write than I thought.)

Ahead of that, here’s a little photo montage, as per this little tradition. What a lovely few days.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 11mo ago

While I was attending @btconf@mastodon.social in Berlin, I snuck backstage to see my talented friend @normanposselt@mastodon.social, who very generously offered to take my photo. Norman can make even my wild fisherman vibe appear vaguely presentable! Thank you, mate.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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And what a footer!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

Brussels (stop #2 on the Fine Specimens book tour) was incredible! Thanks so much to @Waterstones@mas.to for hosting the event, Paddy for leading our conversation, everyone who came along (especially @maxvoltar@mastodon.design, @drbparsons@mastodon.social, @dannycalders@typo.social, @matratype@typo.social, and Kaat Vandenbroeck), and everyone who’s following the tour via my pop-up newsletter (https://buttondown.com/notes-from-a-different-typesetting). Photos by Tim, Paddy, and Doc.

Next stop: Düsseldorf at @btconf@mastodon.social!

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Waterstones (@Waterstones@mas.to) - mas.to

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

I’m so excited to be attending @btconf@mastodon.social in two weeks’ time. Honestly, it’s consistently one of the very best conferences out there. And yes, I’m doing a Fine Specimens launch event there, too, but would be there anyway!

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 27–28 Apr 2026
beyond tellerrand Events

beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 27–28 Apr 2026

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 9mo ago

“Nobody should have a billion dollars,” writes Tom Whyman for The Outline. “People don't have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger 1 billion is than 1 million. 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.”

https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people

(Found via this week’s @densediscovery@mastodon.social.)

The Outline

The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion

Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

Who’s going to be at @btconf@mastodon.social next week?!? I can’t wait.

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beyond tellerrand (@btconf@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago

Huge thanks to PRINT for the big ol’ “Type Tuesday” feature on Fine Specimens! Deb asked some really great questions and I had a great time answering them.

https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/fine-specimens-finer-details/

Fine Specimens—Finer Details – PRINT Magazine
PRINT Magazine

Fine Specimens—Finer Details – PRINT Magazine

Elliot Jay Stocks, celebrates the versatility and impact of contemporary typography with the just released book, "Fine Specimens."

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago

The new newsletter is heading to inboxes right now! In this issue, we’ve got:

— news about my books
— new font releases
— new-to-me foundry discoveries
— type designer interviews
— typographically inspiring websites, tools, and streams
— a discount code for @typeparis@mastodon.design Now26.

You can read the issue online, too:

https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter/time-dilating-chaos

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

This review perfectly sums up what’s so good about the excellent Widow’s Bay:

“[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined. It’s an incredibly difficult tonal balancing act, and […] the show’s writers and directors pull it off with such aplomb.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/210089/widows-bay-apple-tv-series-menacing-hilarious-mash-up

Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up
The New Republic

Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

Don’t have a ticket to @btconf@mastodon.social, but want to come to the Fine Specimens launch party and buy a book directly from me?

Email me or send me a private message here and we can make it happen. Stop number 3 on the book tour is in Düsseldorf next Monday!

More details on https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026/side-events/fine-specimens-launch

(Of course, I do thoroughly recommend getting a ticket if you can — it’s one of the best conferences you’ll ever attend!)

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago

This morning I published the latest issue of my #typography newsletter — the first for a while, but also probably the last until after the summer.

Inside: new fonts, new sites to find fonts, type-specific tools, inspiring lettering portfolios, and loads more.

You can read it online at https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter/summer-fonting

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 18mo ago

Very, very excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at @Figma@mstdn.social’s #config2025 event in San Francisco (and online) this May!

Come along and hear me talk about #typography being the foundation of any design system. 8,000+ attendees. No pressure. 😅

https://config.figma.com/san-francisco

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

I’m back from Düsseldorf and I’ll be publishing the pop-up newsletter for that in the next couple of days, but somehow I managed to squeeze out an issue of the *regular* newsletter while (mainly) on various trains.

You can read it online at https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter/positive-tracking and please consider dropping your email address into the form at the bottom of the page so that you can the next one straight to your inbox!

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

I’m super-late sending out the 2nd issue of my pop-up newsletter about the book tour (a combination of a family Easter break, doing my back in, and catching up on some much needed sleep), but I think today might be the day.

Here’s the link if you want to get it (pop-up = no online archives):

https://buttondown.com/notes-from-a-different-typesetting

Notes from a different (type)setting
buttondown.com

Notes from a different (type)setting

A pop-up newsletter from Elliot Jay Stocks. Unlike Elliot’s main newsletter, Typographic & Sporadic, this one is focussed on short bursts of type-related travel. The current trip is the Fine Specimens UK / EU book tour.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

En route to Belgium! 🇧🇪

Tonight, I’ll be in conversation with my good mate, the author-illustrator Paddy Donnelly, at Waterstones in Brussels. We’ll be celebrating the launch of Fine Specimens and chatting about good ol’ books in general.

Come along if you’re in town — it kicks off at 19:30, it’s free, and there’ll be beer!

https://www.waterstones.com/events/meet-the-author-fine-specimens/brussels-161495

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 11mo ago
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... the custom type designed for M&S by @simonwalker@typo.social, the multiscript family Futura®100 by @typetogether@typo.social, the new type-inspired iPhone game by @finck@mastodon.social, (and his most recent typeface), a collection of my current favourite Adobe fonts, and of course an update about my next book, Fine Specimens, which will be published by Quarto next March — and more. And if you fancy getting the next one directly in your inbox, there’s a form at the bottom of the page. 😉 https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter/how-done-is-done
Elliot Jay Stocks | How done is done?
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Elliot Jay Stocks | How done is done?

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Ever wondered why “was”, “am”, and “be” are such different words, despite expressing different tenses of the same verb, “to be”? @colingorrie@lingo.lol goes deep in the latest issue of his linguistics newsletter (which is fast becoming one of my favourite weekly reads):

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/why-the-verb-to-be-is-so-irregular

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Here, in video format, is a selection of pages from Fine Specimens. You can buy it from anywhere that sells books. Here are some shops (although the best one is your local bookseller):

https://geni.us/FineSpecimens

(Also, a reminder that the next leg of the UK / EU book tour is tomorrow night at Waterstones in Brussels!)

Fine Specimens: A Showcase of Contemporary Type Designs
geni.us

Fine Specimens: A Showcase of Contemporary Type Designs

Pre-order your copy now!

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@jasonsantamaria Thanks so much, man! Really appreciate it. 🤗
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@janmaack Thanks so much ordering one, Jan! Excited to see what you think of it.
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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Ah, @colly, very lovely of you to say, mate. Thank you!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@pixelambacht Thanks so much, mate!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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Thank you, @matthiasott!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 8mo ago
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@Lippe Thank you for sharing! /cc @jesseragan @jasonsantamaria
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 28mo ago

Got a big ol’ issue of my newsletter going out later today (or perhaps early tomorrow if the stars don’t align).

This one contains a load of new type-related links *and* a collection of inspiring work I found while at @typeparis@mastodon.design Now24, so if that sounds like the kind of thing you might like to receive in your inbox, please consider lending me your email address!

(Plus, I never look at unsubscribe data, so there’ll be no hard feelings if you decide it’s not for you.)

https://elliotjaystocks.com/newsletter

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TypeParis (@typeparis@mastodon.design) - mastodon.design

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 31mo ago
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@jasonsantamaria@typo.social Congrata, mate! So awesome to see you doing type design!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@Luke Ah, thank you, dude!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@andymcmillan Thanks mate!!!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@Luke Thanks so much, Luke. And yes, absolutely! I just need to get my website “shop” sorted. Happening soon!
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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Thanks for sharing, @dannycalders! I’m looking forward to seeing you. 🙂 Out of interest, did you RSVP by email?
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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Also, this will be stop #2 on the Fine Specimens book tour. If you want to follow along virtually via the medium of email, please sign up to my pop-up newsletter: https://buttondown.com/notes-from-a-different-typesetting
Notes from a different (type)setting
buttondown.com

Notes from a different (type)setting

A pop-up newsletter from Elliot Jay Stocks. Unlike Elliot’s main newsletter, Typographic & Sporadic, this one is focussed on short bursts of type-related travel. The current trip is the Fine Specimens UK / EU book tour.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@dannycalders Thanks! I’ve got a feeling a few folks who’ve said they’ll come haven’t RSVP’d yet.
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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You too, @dannycalders! Thanks for coming and thanks for the photos.
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