litherland

litherland, 8 months ago to random

What?

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/hggc-explores-4-billion-sale-of-typeface-firm-monotype-1.1977866

litherland, 7 months ago to random

Supposedly it’s passive-aggressive to sign emails

“Best,”

so I’ve started signing emails

“Best!”

litherland, 8 months ago to random

I have turned off the AC and flung open the windows and have brought ice packs to bed with me.

litherland, 11 months ago to random

Very grateful for this series from Frere-Jones Type that resists Monotype’s flattening and erasure. History is important. This is important. Text by @onpaperwings. https://frerejones.com/blog/designing-surveyor

litherland, 2 months ago to random

Oh, wow. Fuck Monotype.

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

litherland, 8 months ago to random

Chris Evert: “Yeah, Jabeur is having some breathing problems, some lung problems…”

😇

#USOpen

litherland, 1 month ago to random

“Private equity is an industry that thrives on failures. It is a form of economic activity with so few redeeming features that even a sympathetic account of its workings becomes an indictment of its track record, its culture, and its practices.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/167819/grim-secrets-private-equity-sachin-khajuria-review

litherland, 10 months ago to random

TIL

“wrack”

litherland, 4 months ago to random

I wonder why uncials have always left me cold. I have never liked these forms. Maybe it’s just a question of my not being sufficiently evolved to appreciate them?

I love roundedness. But I don’t love uncials.

litherland, 1 year ago to random

Do other people write the way I do, i.e., counting words until they finally have enough words?

litherland, 9 months ago to random

Food for thought 🤔 https://social.coop/@ntnsndr/110942728229601070

litherland, 9 months ago to random

Wanted: The Complete Writings of James Mosley.

I mean I want such a volume to exist. All in one place.

litherland, 3 months ago to random

I always think that the past tense of “troubleshoot” should be “troubleshat.”

litherland, 7 months ago to random

Control is a total instant classic (a “banger,” as James Edmonson might say) and I am so in love with it. You guys.

https://vault.commercialtype.com/vault/control

litherland, 9 months ago to random

I am not a person who presents—I will never “present,” I am simply too shy—but I like the idea of using presentation tools for thinking.

https://ia.net/presenter

Also, iA Writer is a core app for me. I use it every single day. So I’m interested to see what iA Presenter is like. And I wonder if it might be a useful writing tool for visual thinkers.

litherland, 1 year ago to random

The ATypI Paris FOMO is intense. Intense, I tell you.

litherland, 9 months ago to random

A weird thing happened earlier when I was out walking the dogs. A friendly woman approached me and asked me if I needed a dog walker. I said no and asked her if she had tried putting up flyers around the neighborhood.

litherland, 4 months ago to random

I wonder how many italic-first designs there are in the world? (I don’t mean italic only, but families where the italic has been designed first.) 🤔

Anyway I already loved the italic, and now here’s the roman, featuring sans serif caps mixed with a serif lower case.

From Tim Ripper and Paul Barnes, based on Miller & Richard’s News Bill Italic

https://vault.commercialtype.com/vault/punch

litherland, 4 months ago to random

A five-part series on modern handwriting by Sébastien Morlighem? How did I miss this?

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/modern-handwriting-a-historical-survey-1

litherland, 3 months ago to random

For those who haven’t seen it yet, Jan Gerner (Yanone) has started a fundraiser to help type designer Hasan Abu Afash and his family evacuate Gaza. Chip in if you can! https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-type-designer-hasan-abu-afash-from-gaza

litherland, 2 months ago to random

This is a tough one. I was an editor at A Book Apart for more than a decade, and it was the honor of a lifetime. We left everything on the field, all of us, always. We sweated the details. I loved everyone I worked with, from my colleagues to all of the authors.

What an honor. Thank you, everyone. ❤️

https://www.getdrip.com/broadcasts/980319841/3e433208c98dc54ebd321

litherland, 11 months ago to random

Directions for getting to a friend’s birthday party in Brooklyn 🤔

litherland, 11 months ago to random

It’s bonkers that even inside with all windows closed and air filters + AC running, I still have a splitting headache and feel nauseated. Why do things hit me so hard / why am I such a wimp?

litherland, 1 month ago to random

“The industry’s protective ecosphere is strong. A coterie of enablers, some unwittingly, foster the myth. Regulators have been absent and afraid to challenge the PE behemoth.”

https://carey.jhu.edu/articles/research/private-equity-business-not-all-its-cracked-be