I will be talking to myself here
As expected, questioning something as fundamental as the Japanese baseline grid could not be achieved without the solid technical skills of Masataka Hattori and @zacharyquinnscheuren 😎🧰
And as with every typeface family, many more people were involved behind the scenes.
My role in Momochidori was designing the Latin part, which now has been released as “Chidori”. There’s a bit more flexibility in drawing the Latin (since I don’t have to deal with heavy ideographs), so the axes are more extreme. In Chidori, it’s possible to go heavier, lighter, and tighter. The variable axes makes the family fun to use – I enjoyed making these samples, in which I reproduced signs seen in my surroundings.
feeling so old… had to google the word “situationship”
Free trial fonts of all of my typefaces! 🆓✌️🔡 Latest update including something still secret ☞ https://christoph.koe.berlin/trialfonts.html
In a world full of info overload, I really appreciate anyone who posts cat, dog, or panda videos.
The University of Amsterdam made a video about the lettering on their new library! https://campus.uva.nl/en/content/news/2025/05/do-read-the-ubs-facade-screen-is-up.html @UvAHumanities #lettering #amsterdam #uva #library
Deep down I really wanna have a booth at an art book fair somewhere in Asia and just be on tour… the only problem is I have no print ideas yet. So far I only made one postcard for New Year 2025. Long way to go 😅
MORE GREAT NEWS
Do you want to join the Knuth–Bigelow Incubator? (KBI for short)
There are FOUR spots available to the S-E Asia group.
Starting this summer from June 23 to July 24.
Fully online and recorded for participants.
10 sessions, 2 per week, from 1,5 to 3 hours.
@typedaybook @boom Sueh Li Tan (Huruf Type) @typojo @fercozzi @letterformarchive SILICON@Stanford Tom Mullaney
More details and tickets: https://wordsoftype.com/
Partnership with @stanfordsilicon and @letterformarchive 💖
The @futurefonts HyperTalks 3.0 event starts a little over an hour from now (13:00 EDT). It’s free and streaming online, with talks from:
- Dương Trần
- @namratagoyal (Universal Thirst)
- Pauline Fourest (Spaghetype)
- Juan Pablo Mejía & Camilo Roa (Réplica)
- Philipp Neumeyer (Rüdiger)
- @dianaovezea & Barbara Bigosińska (@blast_foundry)
- James Edmondson (@ohno)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hypertalks-30-tickets-1318161599829
as part of an effort to leave that other place, i am launching a newsletter. mostly to give myself an excuse & platform to write more about random shit i’m into. check it here if interested: https://buttondown.com/threelefts
@dantescanline @tyalie Thank you for featuring the video :) I haven’t come across a similar video—where someone walks through a city and reflects on type in public space—in other languages yet. But physical events like “typewalks” often happen in different cities for various scripts, especially around type-related gatherings. If you’ve seen anything similar elsewhere, feel free to share—I’d love to see it.
Found this last night, so addictive https://youtu.be/m_r61Nxp5PI?feature=shared
New blog post! M+ research centre in March
https://boomtype.ghost.io/manops-collection-m-research-centre-hongkong/
@FontsInUse I worked with Studio Marcus Kraft (http://marcuskraft.com) to create a series of contextual rules that would automatically create a pleasing undulation of peaks and valleys as words are typed, taking into account the presence of ascenders, descenders, and diacritics. Here’s a video of the contextual alternates in action!
Loitering on the internet today, I found a little feature about https://indiastreetlettering.com/ in Thai magazine Urban Creature https://urbancreature.co/india-street-lettering/ — so cool!
They also have features on http://publiclettering.org.uk/ and @boom’s https://www.thaipography-archive.com/.
@blag Very happy to hear!!
I am proud of @boom, who gave her first #TEDx talk at Thammasat University in Bangkok today! Titled #Thaipography, Boom’s talk made the audience aware how important archives and historical research are for typeface designers.
Congratulations Boom!
@frankrolf thank you for the photo and summary of the talk ☺️✌️💕
Another sad day in Bangkok. My family and I are safe, but many people were trapped under the collapsed construction site, and many had to walk over 30 km home due to the lack of transportation. Many high-rise buildings, poorly built yet home to so many, are now at risk. They say the aftershock is coming. I feel sad, yet fully awake. Once again, Bangkok never makes me feel safe.
