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Our last Mastodon post of 2023 is also our 500th. We love it here and intend to keep on sledding. See you for the next 500!

Image: Arctic Hams Sugar Cured in Artificial Temperature, Schmidt Lithography Company, ca. 1870. Read more about the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/

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I love these lettering guides and all the other stuff in this article.

➡️ https://www.typotheque.com/articles/from-lettering-guides-to-cnc-plotters-a-brief-history-of-technical-lettering-tools

I actually took drafting classes in school (middle school and college) and there were no computers, just a big old desk, paper, t-squares and other tools.

I'm really tempted to 3D print or lasercut a lettering guide and try using it.

(Hat tip to @oskay and @lenore1 for this one.)

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It’s again!
And there are new arrivals:

@burrowlab generative font tool
@cjkurtz Hanseat
@Ilhamherry
@zinzolin type foundry from Lyon
@ammon fram @ANRT

And others to follow:
@MauriceMeilleur (otherwise we might lose him to 😨
@Fountain a @getkirby plugin 😃
@ovan welcome back 👋
@isoglosse for your language needs 🔡
@blag
@Luke most active typo.socialist
@MoritzBrouhaha we 🖤 icons
@kupfers tains

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A sign from 8 years ago for all vernacular signage appreciators. Those quotes around the price 👌

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Calligraphed initial J.
From "Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits" by Ferdinand Denis, Paris: 1857 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/calligraphed-initial-j/

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Jacket for The First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes, pictures by Cliff Roberts, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1955.

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I found a signet and I am trying to figure out what the letter is. Can anyone help?

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A quality piece of pavement found in Larkspur, CA.
Think it's dilbert in , but could say Lilbert, but never heard that before

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Exercises in Flourishing from Real Pen-Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship, published by Knowles & Maxim, Massachusetts, 1881.

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For the prompt rebirth it’s my immortal jellyfish!

Turritopsis dohrnii mis the only known animal to be able to revert to its younger colonial stage after having reached maturity. The full-grown T. dohrnii jellyfish medusa, if it gets stressed, or old & sick, can revert back to the polyp stage, form a new polyp colony & start all over.

🧵1/n

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