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Erik
@letterror@typo.social
mastodon 4.6.9Erik van Blokland. I draw nice letters and I make useful fonts. #typedesign #typography #roboFont #lettering #typeMedia #nobridge #fuckai
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Joined November 05, 2022
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Imagine spending all that AI money on education.
Behold this crisp, yet exclusive card with premium informations, on both sides, for the exports only, realised on a luxury 300 grams Biotop with deep, proactively recycled fibers that say “yes, thank you for gifting me this!”
Someone steals your bicycle. Then a million other bicycles. Then says “you need to get into bicycles otherwise you will be left behind!”
What if we say bicycles are Turing complete, perhaps tech money would support them.
So I’ll sell tickets for a talk about AI and type design, make sure it looks good for the socials and then just show books and sketch and chat? And everyone would be ok with that.
Bring your laptop to the beach for some light reading: NEWSLTR №23: Typographic Summer. Out now for subscribers, and non-subscribers also, really. LettError will be traveling.
https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/news-ltr-no23-typographic-summer/
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
A quick overview of the asterisms in the LettError fonts. All new titles have have the symbol and I will add them to older ones when useful. I prefer the asterisk with 5 strokes. For LTR Very Bauble the bottom asterisks are rotated inward to create the triangular counter. This is a pretty illusion. For CT Action Grotesque the legibility at 7pt was more important. It is a complex shape and I want to it do its job at scale. By moving the bottom asterisks outward, they create some room for the top asterisk. The whole symbol becomes a bit wider, especially in the heavier weights. Click on the images to 👀 inspect details, some nice outline details in both typefaces, if that is your cup of tea. #fediverse #asterism #fonts #typedesignhttps://letterror.com/asterism/
Clear messaging from @TypeMedia@typo.social 💪 #stopslop #fuckai #ai #arteducation
Moment of Microsoft Teams zen. #teams #zen #discovermore #news
Typedesigners and licensing.
Take a risk. Have a thought. Make a new thing. Go nuts. FFS.
Excellent sign drawing skills at this typographic Koningsdag enterprise. ✨❤️🔥 @boom@typo.social @frankrolf@typo.social
Artspeak, a programming language for shapes from 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artspeak
And contemporary rebuild. https://artspeak.quogic.com/
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“
Watcha gonna do
when your tokens run out,
tokens run out?
clients will shout?
— all hell be
breaking loose!
”
Looking.
Ethics aside, “Rolls-Royce has benefited further from huge demand for generators for AI datacentres”
@guardian@flipboard.social https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/19/rolls-royce-fixed-engine-problems-support-uk-narrowbody?dcr=apps&edition=uk#:~:text=Rolls%2DRoyce%20has%20benefited%20further%20from%20huge%20demand%20for%20generators%20for%20AI%20datacentres%2C
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@stefan @onpaperwings The 8 hours drawing is by Ricardo Levins Morales. Check out https://www.rlmartstudio.com/about/about-the-artist/ @rlmartstudio
Before trying his hand at painting, Vincent v Gosch was into cooking. Berlin Hbf
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In het boemeltje naar Berlijn (zoals @vasilis@social.vasilis.nl zegt)
Strictly speaking airplanes are just packaging.
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@drj@typo.social @kalleboo@bitbang.social I honestly don’t remember if I talked about this. But I definitely edited fonts in ResEdit.
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@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz I was curious how this effect would manifest itself in text. So here is a page with text in the same colors. For me it shows the fixation points on the line.
https://letterror.com/research/purple/
Interview with Shane Harris (American journalist, author and staff writer of The Atlantic) about #AI. At @DeBalie@mastodon.social in Amsterdam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TD9AH_Stsc
New video standard specifically for art education: AKHDMI
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@ia@mastodon.online Smaller margins I suppose? A more economic use of white space around paragraphs? Sometimes I need to share PDFs and they run long.
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@nika @FandaSin @MatthijsSluiter @DunwichType Not sure we can afford to use any of it once the tokens are no longer subsidized by speculation.
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@vanillaweb @justvanrossum @carmenansio Very true and I love svg but also sometimes just want it to do width=100%.
Data science: anyone here working at the Met Office? Research access to weather data?
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io @drawBot@typo.social Between plotter and tektronix there was only so much they could do, maybe?
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@pdimagearchive@mastodon.social If you say “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili!” three times, the ghost of Manutius appears.
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@Luke@typo.social @iorsh@kishkush.net Not sure how to connect the words you write with the words I wrote but I also don’t want to get in the way of whatever it is you’re thinking :)