I missed this book when it came out, so excited to finally pick up a copy. Brick Index from Patrick Fry. Yep, that’s right it’s a book of pictures of British bricks, 154 of them, and it’s wonderful
Off topic, but that's an interesting typeface they're using there. It has a non-slanted italic font!
I won't say it's good, per se. The difference between the roman and italic fonts is subtle enough to be difficult to distinguish, and some characters, like U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T, have the exact same glyph in both fonts.
This might be a bit of a stretch, but do I know anyone who does something like brand identity #design work? Or who wants to? I'm thinking about stuff like logos, #typography, brand colors, and related. This would be for a personal #OpenSource project, so the budget is small but non-zero.
#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.
New e-library opened in Finland today on the 29th of April, but the release is very buggy. Tried giving some feedback, the feedback form vanishes. #eBooks#eLibrary#brownPatterns
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!
#Typography Tip Tuesday: if your font has different grades, use them! At first glance, grade might appear similar to weight, but whereas weight makes parts of the text look different, grade is helps maintain consistency.
Image 1: Unlike weight (except in multiplexed fonts), grade doesn’t affect the overall width. Typeface: Roboto Flex.
Image 2: On screens, light-on-dark text will appear slightly bloated, so switch to a lighter grade when designing for Dark Mode. Typeface: Tabac.
Raccoon Greetings for National High Five Day! This is a portrait of a former neighbour who showed up at my back door like this, to enquire as to where I had moved the compost bin. So I took his photo and made a print.
Toronto belongs to the raccoons. They just let us live here because we have good snacks.