Erik

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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2025-05-29

New page for Velzyland added to the CJ Type website
cjtype.com/typefaces/velzyland/

Huge thank you to @jasonsantamaria for excellent feedback and guidance (and please excuse the feedback I wasn’t able to implement yet 😅)

2025-05-29

@cjtype @typearture @justvanrossum Amazing shiny stuff CJ!

2025-05-28

@ollicle @vasilis It was noisy in the park and the mind wondered.

2025-05-28

@ollicle @vasilis I did look into Bluetooth jammers at some point.

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2025-05-28
2025-05-28

@fhardwig @paulvanderlaan @koeberlin That is a great name! Smart as whips, these corvidae.

2025-05-28

Ready for my billion dollar merger.

My favorite dark blue espresso cup. On my desk.
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2025-05-28

man it’s good to see friends in places: future-fonts.com/queertype/ant

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2025-05-27

NEW RELEASE !!!

FC Crimp is a super family that we use for our website and communication. We will explore many of it’s details and design decisions in the coming weeks, but here are the main features.

If you want to explore Crimp at your own pace you can do so at fontclubbelgica.com/typefaces/

FC Crimp is a modern revival of a brilliant yet overlooked idea from type history, blending technical precision with contemporary design.

Introducing Crimp1.  Monospaced looks 
     but with better flagging
2.  Language Support
     Latin CE Extended
     Кирилица
     Ελληνικ
     Tiếng Việt
3.  Two Styles
     20 Regular
     21 Italic5 Widths
6 WeightsFC Crimp

Explore Crimp and other fonts at: https/www.fontclubbelgica.com
2025-05-27

@flaviazim hi Flavia! I think I accidentally reported a message from you. I have no idea how that happened! I had no intention to do that. Unblocked, unreported. Sorry if this caused a problem!

2025-05-27

@vasilis Someone else’s phone?

2025-05-27

@koeberlin Vlaamse gaai!

2025-05-27

Longboard 1.3.9. In which @arthurfontzarelli does some plumbing to make Longboard compatible with exciting upcoming buttonsin DSE2. And a new contextual menu for copying previews while exploring the designspace. Update in Mechanic. That is all.

Screenshot of the contextual menu in a RoboFont glypheditor, showing the copy Preview and Show Location items. If this does not mean anything to you: do not worry. It is a small, specialised tool for typedesigners who make variable fonts and designspaces with RoboFont.
2025-05-26

@tiro_j Sn. 1, Ep. 1. The Larch.

2025-05-26

Dutch word of the day: "doorstroomvennootschappen". Something like shellcompanies, if I understand that correctly. Three pairs of o! Double n, double p. Throat clearing consonant clusters rstr and tsch. Source: @volkskrant

Photo from the word "doorstroomvennootschappen" in the Volkskrant.
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2025-05-26

LIEBE DEUTSCHE BADEG STE: AN DEN NIEDERL NDISCHEN STR NDEN IST ES NICHT GEF HRLICH! #denhaag #thesans #umlaut

2025-05-25

@kai They have to skimp on fonts so they have bandwidth for their 892 exclusive partners.

2025-05-25

BBC journalist Anna Holligan with her unique mobile bicycle studio in The Hague. And then the bike got stolen. BBC: bbc.com/news/articles/c771v2y0 NOS: nos.nl/l/2568640 #bicycling #cargobike #sustainability #reporting @BBCNews @NOS

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