Font inspiration✳️
Any font designers looking for inspiration? Found these beautiful letters that would be awesome to have extended to a full alphabet. Couldn't find anything like it in digital form.
From the permament exhibition in The Black Diamond in Copenhagen
@rzeta0 I would recommend browsing the local timeline at typo.social where you'll find plenty of good stuff, and no doubt familiar faces from twitter: https://typo.social/public/local
I've been hunting for this specific typeface/font for ages, but can never find it. It was used for cinema light box/marquees in the UK in the 1960s-1980s. It's close to some of the usual suspects (Gill Sans, Human521, Futura, DIN, Century, etc ), but no cigar. Any ideas?
We really need to gather various #typography related #CSS properties that are scattered across different browsers without full support (or with just partial support) and make it into an #interop2025 focus area.
Like ascent-override (please, Safari!)
Or font-size-adjust (come on, Chrome!)
Or… initial-letter (hey, Firefox!), though, there are also so many ::first-letter issues!
Or text-box-trim & text-box-edge (ok, these are only there in Safari TP)
Is there a punctuation if you want to say something, but also signal that the other person could correct it (so something between "." and "?"). The interrobang ‽ has a different meaning.
@zvavybir I don’t know of a punctuation, but a common English pattern is to end a statement with “, no?” to invite corrections. I had a Swiss German speaking professor who would end statements with “… Or?” To accomplish the same thing.
One of my favorite road signs in all of Missouri, seen heading west on Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.
I very seldom drive there, but when I do, I love to startle the rest of my family by saying "Look everyone, we're coming up to Bryan ..." then screaming "ROAD!" at the top of my lungs.
I'm not sure why they decided to make "ROAD" uppercase, but I am forever grateful.
@Heliograph
alternate explanation: when using the Shift key on a typewriter the carriage gets lifted so the upper stamp forms are imprinted onto the paper.
This morning there was an interesting presentation at #lgm about using new typographic ligatures to make written language more gender-neutral. Great ideas with graphically interesting solutions. Thanks to the "Bye Bye Binary"-collective. https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/
#Typography Tip Tuesday! Know your numerals (or figures). There are 4 different kinds and a well made font should contain all of them:
Proportional lining
Proportional oldstyle
Tabular lining
Tabular oldstyle
Top 2 rows: Proportional numerals have varying glyph widths, just like most letters and symbols. Oldstyle numerals’ letterforms have ascender- and descender-like designs.
Bottom 2 rows: Tabular numerals have a consistent width.
Ooh, @Codeberg just updated to @forgejo version 7 and… ta daa, the spurious warnings in the code listings for proper curly quotes and other correct – but sadly underutilised – typographical elements in comments and strings are gone!