“A life of dignity should not be reserved for a fortunate few…” Hell yes, this is what politics sould feel like.

@cameronmcefee I think this was the moment that sold me

@cameronmcefee You could do a catch up video of all the cutscenes! I beat DS1 a couple of months ago and I’m pretty sure there are cutscenes that, if you start now, won’t end before the second game comes out.

(The last credit sequence is cool but also a real psychological test.)

I love this website highlighting the Small Web:

https://smallweb.cc/

Seriously, that is the Web I want.

🎉 A new thing I made — Citywide, a sans serif typeface inspired by mid-1900s bus roll signs.

It has some real charm, feeling both informal and buttoned up in the same breath. It’s still a work in progress, but already a large family of widths and weights, plus italics.

Read more about Citywide and bus roll signs, and grab a license: https://shop.jasonsantamaria.com/products/citywide

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

So, @rek animated this really nice guide on assembling a zine.

🧠 Yesterday’s thread now has a permanent (and expanded) home: https://csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/

@wordsoftype beta is now launched, as announced by @lisahuang at Face/Interface: https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/

#Typography #Fonts

United States Postal Service Corporate Identification Guidelines, 1971.

“The prime elements in [the service mark] are the eagle and the red/white/blue ‘U. S. Mail’. The eagle will be used as a right-facing symbol on all communications except where a directional motion is involved (Examples: the letter carriers’ shoulder patch, or the emblem on the left side of vehicles.)”

new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web)

plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully:

https://henry.codes

scroll with caution & with care!

I'm back in the pages of Wired with an essay about the greatness and weirdness of HTML, especially when you dig into its programming guts. This was so fun to write and I'm delighted to have my byline in the magazine (and the web!) again: https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

AI that sometimes generates true information when true information is needed, and sometimes generates indistinguishably false information, is not better than nothing. It is in fact considerably worse than nothing.

The Hippocratic Oath for librarianship needs to start with "First, tell no lies."

New on the blog: https://aaadaaam.com/notes/house-fan/

It’s a story about a house fan emulator I built as an offline PWA,
that answers important questions like “why?” and “seriously, what even is this?”

updated my homepage for spooky season 👻

https://anhvn.com

Introducing TODS - a #Typography and #OpenType default stylesheet.
The idea is to have a default #CSS file to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose text, making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.

https://clagnut.com/blog/2433

#webtypography

Hoooooollllyyy shit! It’s a brand new episode of Every Frame a Painting!! The first one in *eight years*. The seminal YouTube series returns with a video about the sustained two-shot. https://kottke.org/24/08/-new-every-frame-a-painting

As a collaborative artist, I wanted to push back on the idea that creative teams need a strong leader.

Collaborative process is a skill that people study and practice. Most teams aren't trained in that skillset, but they could be.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2024/08/08/vision/

This week we talk about two posts from two of our favorite bloggers.

- @rachsmith's "Comfortable with the struggle"
- @fonts's "Vibe driven development"

https://shoptalkshow.com/627/