Inspired by the story of the Geometric sans, it has optical sizes, a wide weight range, and a lot of fun alternates that reference different eras in the genre.
I feel like the most “millennial” thing I do is waiting to make any big purchases “on the big screen” i.e. small purchases are ok on the phone but if it’s a big purchase I prefer to do it on the computer for some reason, as if the bigger the screen the more secure it is or something. Anyone else? I feel like this is something I would get teased for if I had any Gen Z in my life.
@onpaperwings I have a crackerjack lecture on the history of web font formats that my font production students never vote for (I allow them to pick the subjects they want to learn about to a certain extent).
It's a shame because the creation of the EOT format has drama (as far as that term goes in the font engineering world)
Having the house wired with CAT7 for future 10g speeds.
>1gb Fiber internet is in reach. All future computers will use 2.5g or faster Ethernet adapters. There’ll be 5-6 routes where 10gb would be important (3-4 workstations, NAS, living room). Another 10ish are fine with 1g for now (but could be faster of course). I don’t want to splurge on WiFi 7 gear (but I do need 3 AP, I was thinking a UnifiExpress and two old Unifi APs I already have?)
@kai My thought is, wire the house with CAT7, sure, wires are hard to replace. But you could save some money now by just going for (max) 2.5Gbps hardware/access points, as by the time >2.5Gbps speeds are really a reality, you'd want to upgrade anyway. If you got 10Gbps hardware right now they would be most of their way to a decade old by that time.
Sadness is these awful Monotype newsletters “from” H&Co, especially since the unsubscribe link seems to be a dead-end. This crap is not what I signed up for. :-/
I remember the first time teaching at @letterformarchive, they asked if I needed any books to reference while teaching and I requested "something big and German" and this thing showed up! I never saw a copy in such good condition as the one LettArc has.
Okay, the variable type reference and inspiration site by @nicksherman for @HEX is fascinating and interactive.
If you've ever wondered about variable typography and fonts, here's a great sample of available typefaces to tweak, like this one, Jabin, by Frida Medrano:
@Luke@nicksherman@HEX Jabin is great, but I feel the swash axis needs to be a HOI-style axis, with the swashes extending out and curling around the letters... one day maybe this will be a feasible possibility
@onpaperwings@letterror the one thing I really liked about it (when I used it at MT) was being able to see another person’s schedule so you could book a call with them. Eliminated a ton of “I’m free 1-3 are you free 1-3?” “no I can only do 4-6, can you do tomorrow at 8?” “No, I’m free but Doug is busy then…” emails; you could just find a time that worked for everyone…. I wish I had this feature for scheduling things in real life.
After spending an unreasonable amount of time digging into fontTools and AFDKO, cmap tables, and its ilk, I bow my head even more towards anyone who dares to make fonts.
Make no mistake, this was always going to be the end goal for #Chrome. It’s a browser run by an ad company, that already tries to track you everywhere you go (on and off the internet). Just switch to #Firefox. I use it daily, there is literally no difference in site speed, appearance, or functionality.
Does anyone have a link to original Avenir specimens/materials from ~1987 when it came out? The @FontsInUse page (https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3409/avenir), usually my go-to for stuff like this, does not have any images linked, and when I search anywhere the results are just flooded with Typography 1 class assignments
Celebrities and big brands may never flock to Mastodon. It's just the nature of the platform to target a small community rather than a large audience, and for those hoping to do that, they'll pick centralized systems every time. But for me, that's just fine. I like it here. Maybe some other friends would like it here too, that's what @spreadmastodon is about. Not having your social media owned by a corporation is a great feeling. Let's make it more common.
Amazed to see that @FontsInUse does not yet have an entry yet on "Computer Programmert Zur Unterhaltung" magazine, I'm weirdly fascinated by its typography.
I have been recently trying to put my finger on why Threads is so off-putting to me, especially since it is seeming more now than ever to be the heir apparent to Twitter for many mass-market brands and personalities.
And I think this recent video by @kurz_gesagt hits the nail on the head — it's too open. It feels less like the Twitter of 2010 and more like the Twitter of 2020... lots of people with strong opinions, very little community feel.