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letterror

@letterror@typo.social

Hello I'm Erik van Blokland! I work in typedesign, lettering, tools, python, drawbot. I make fonts, some of which are for sale at the links below. I’m the head of the TypeMedia master at the KABK in The Hague. #typeDesign #typography #reading #toolDevelopment #python #roboFont #lettering #typeMedia

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glennf, to random
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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

letterror,
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@glennf Destroying musical instruments is hardly ever a positive act.

letterror,
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@celiason @glennf huh! I once saw a recreation of a Fluxus happening in which a piano was smashed. Hard to watch. Maybe that was the point, but if that was the point it was low and easy. I dunno.

letterror,
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@glennf @celiason I just thought there would be a kid who’d love to play but can’t afford one.

letterror,
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@notroot @glennf piano prices the the low lands are not like that.

letterror, to random
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Would be nice if AI could mean Accountable Intelligence.

Dr_Bombay, to random
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Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Rescued From the River Thames https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807

letterror,
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@glennf @Dr_Bombay there’s a story attributed to the Joh. Enschedé punchcutter Paul Rädisch who allegedly did not like the introduction of a mechanical engraving device in his workshop. And then took parts from the machine and tossed them in the canal on his walk home.

letterror, to random
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Ligatures. https://youtu.be/_ChQK8j6so8?si=yxwujo3LWSNMeHXw

letterror,
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@Luke many good scenes in that movie.

litherland, to random
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Oh, wow. Fuck Monotype.

https://www.dstype.com/newsletter/dear-customers-colleagues-friends

letterror,
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@sajatype every sale makes the remaining market smaller.

letterror, to random
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Captions. Wrong answers only.

letterror, to Finance
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I don’t understand private equity finance, but I can imagine that if my company had to pay the interest on a 1.45 bn dollar loan I’d be a bit nervous with this news. It shows that Monotype is more valuable as a thing to borrow against than actual income from licenses. Oh dear. #monotype #finance #privateequity
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/font-designer-monotype-nabs-1-221517967.html

letterror, to random
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The 12" G4 MacBook from 2004 was such a neat machine. DVD drive. Wifi and ethernet. You could add memory in a slot at the bottom. Swappable battery.

letterror, to random
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Repeat, after me: subsetting will be upsetting. “But think of all the bytes this will have saved. “.

letterror,
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@klim it was fine for yesterdays article.

letterror, to random
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“It is only coding if it uses a Turing complete language.”

letterror, to random
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NewsLTR No5. On the inevitability of an unbliqued faux-reauman addition to LTR Limited Grotesque. Sign up! https://buttondown.email/letterror/archive/news-ltr-no-5-more-ltr-limited-grotesque/

letterror, to random
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The moment we accept that big AI gets to consume all copyrighted materials for free we’re never going to get it back. The “we” being all creative disciplines: writers, image makers, coders, musicians, designers, artists, makers, thinkers and tinkerers. And we will compete with the largest data centers funded by the world’s wealthiest investors cranking out uncredited zombie blends of our old work forever.

letterror, to random
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The ClockPix clock by @vasilis is close to my heart. A collection of photos of clocks in the real world. By showing a photo at the time depicted on the clock, old, dated pixels are placed in a new current context and for a brief moment it is relevant again. Check it out: vasilis.nl/clocks/pix-clock/

letterror, to drawing
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@ivory how about a small apple pen / stylus drawing interface in the iPadOS version? To insert as a drawing straight into a toot?

letterror,
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@ivory Pretty sure it requires more than just a plugin but there is this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pencilkit/drawing_with_pencilkit

letterror, to CSS
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Is there a fantastically good reason why changing the color in a word, with CSS, in Safari, would break the kerning? Firefox does not.

To To: changing the color of a glyph in Firefox keeps the kerning.

csilverman, to art
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letterror,
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@csilverman love this

letterror, to random
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“1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study

Enjoy ChatLTR, (our Eliza, in an appropriate typographic representation):
https://letterror.com/ncnd/game.html

letterror, to random
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Try not to think of this Eric Idle song. https://youtu.be/T5vo7jLGOb8?si=sysDW9pcPWlAAdc0

DunwichType, to random
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Where are the type designers advertising now that most of us have abandoned Twitter? I’ve heard that LinkedIn is good because people use it on their desktop so they might buy fonts right after seeing an ad. Instagram, OTOH, seems to be mobile centric so it’s not a great way to sell downloads.

letterror,
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