This one has been over six months in the making: The newest podcast from Monotype features one of my favorite (and very-below-the-radar) type designers, Sara Solskone: https://www.monotype.com/resources/expertise/creative-characters-s5-e7-sara-soskolne

Based on the number of orders we’ve received today, we think you might like to know about this: https://ksmallgallery.com/collections/online/products/walter-kach-s-lettering

To add to your enjoyment, Rachel gave an interview discussing her influences, starting in type design, and more: https://jtdtype.com/article/Ultramega-an-interview-with-its-designer/7

Milestone unlocked: we’ve published the 30,000th Use on https://fontsinuse.com today!

♥︎ Thanks to all contributors for making this happen, as well as to our sponsors from the type and design community.

#FontsInUse #typography

@commercial @ronanmcd Shiva was so generous with his responses 🙏

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

New in our news section, Caren @litherland interviewed Shiva Nallaperumal about Delegate, how he came to type design, and his studio November: https://commercialtype.com/news/shiva_nallaperumals_path_to_delegate

“Choosing to use platforms that have transparent rules, provide for user agency to reduce noise and improve information discoverability, and support data portability is our best chance to improve information integrity.”

https://techpolicy.press/to-build-a-better-democracy-start-by-rethinking-your-relationship-to-the-internet

The new effort is being led by Fontstand’s Peter Biľak and Andrej Krátky, now joined by Christine Bateup of Frere-Jones Type, and Christopher Slye. Together, we’re finalizing the legal framework and details of expanded licensing, which will be built on Fontstand’s existing platform.

Fontstand is becoming a co-op! At the Fontstand Conference in The Hague, we announced that we’re becoming a cooperatively owned and managed font distributor – with expanded licensing and services. Stay tuned as we create a more equitable, transparent and democratic model for font designers.

New release! Place, our first release by French type designer and calligrapher Julien Priez, is a wide and elegant serif typeface in four weights, with both Latin and blackletter capitals.

https://commercialtype.com/catalog/place

@aredridel Just saw your edit 🎉

EDIT: hired!

Well I guess now's the time: It's time for me to #getFediHired

I'm a software engineer with 29 years of experience. In more technologies than one person usually encounters. I've been working in Javascript and Typescript for a while, but don't let that fool you: I do rust for fun and I'm down in the guts of the runtime in C++ if I have to. I’m fixing include paths in C header files and managing deployments and doing system level tracing. I do embedded programming for fun, and I've picked at the system level APIs of everything from MacOS to Android. I can cleverly hack my way past problems, and isolate the resulting tech debt with a good explanation and the conditions under which it can be fixed.

I leave every codebase neater than I found it. I can manage awkward technology transitions, and I can bring a fair bit of open source know-how to bear on things.

I'm a team-oriented, consensus-focused person, but confident executing on my own and iterating from there. I will boldly start and show a prototype if that's what it takes. I'm not easily bored, so if it just needs a heavy lift, I'm here for that too.

I've worked in PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Rust, C, C++, Vala, Scheme, and a dozen more languages (and I'll learn any new one I need to) and have written truly unfortunate amounts of hardened, careful bash.

I've installed and built VoIP platforms with Asterisk integrations, I've built mail servers and custom authentication. I've built FUSE filesystems for fun, and I'm always after ways to make software simple, durable, and reliable.

Working remotely ideal, Boston/Cambridge is possible.

Got a team that could use me? Hit me up. aredridel@dinhe.net. Resume and letters of recommendation available on request (you really don't have to take my word for what I'm capable of.)

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Thank you to everyone who boosted this. A+, would try to get hired via Fediverse social connections again. Y'all came through.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/113498301954115142

Once in a while I think about this lovely little piece by Allen Tan, and am glad it’s still findable—but only just! Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160414054127/https://the-pastry-box-project.net/allen-tan/2013-december-17

🦊

As of last night, my first two books — RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN, and RESPONSIVE DESIGN: PATTERNS AND PRINCIPLES — are available to read online, for free.

I had some emotions about it: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/books-no-longer-apart/

#blogging #bookstodon #ResponsiveDesign

@990000 Also I predict a lot of infighting. The stupidity and the infighting could get in the way of the fascism. Maybe.

@990000 I had the exact same thought yesterday when I heard the Gaetz news. I mean these folks are just ridiculously inept.

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

Okay I’m biased because I had the honor of working on this and I deeply admire everyone involved, but still—this is a very cool little book. I’ve never seen a specimen book quite like it. It’s like type specimen meets concrete poetry meets pop criticism. Original text by Molly Lambert, design by Chris Wu (Wkshps), foreword and overall vision by Christian and Paul. Go get it! Preorders open: https://commercialtype.com/goods/double_acts_in_pop