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I don't know who needs to hear this, but @internetarchive has the complete set of Carl Sagan's 1980s Cosmos series online for free.

https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage

#astronomy #space #carlsagan

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🥁 Welcome INDIA STREET LETTERING, the book! 🥁

I’m working with @blaft to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cityscapes into a book — a 200-page hardcover full-colour volume showcasing striking public lettering from around the country.

We need your help to make this book happen 🤝🏼 Our Kickstarter campaign is live. Please chip in, pre-order the book and share the project with everyone you know ➡️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/

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10 minutes from now, TypeLab 2025 kicks off on the TypeLab Americas channel.

RSVP for free to join the Zoom:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/typographics-typelab-2025-tickets-1371585702759

Or watch the livestream on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/_898DlPRRQ4

Full schedule and other details here:
https://2025.typographics.com/typelab/

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Still gathering Schrofer code … one recent update to @drawBot broke my original code for recreating the script patterns on the covers of Mouton's Les Textes Sociologiques series, but: revisions, et voila. Reconstruction, examples of the original covers, Schrofer's plan on graph paper, and a field showing the gamut of the variable font's horizontal/vertical stroke:counter axes.

Archive images courtesy the Jurriaan Schrofer Archive, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam.

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I'm very proud to have helped release this new font my friend @helenemarian at @NaN !

👹Archy 👹 ON + OFF
Archy takes its roots in Marian’s practice of paint-brush lettering but processes it through a highly digital treatment, suppressing most its organic nature. What’s left is a sans serif in 2 versions, [ON] and [OFF].

https://www.nan.xyz/fonts/nan-archy/

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@FontsInUse @jasonsantamaria In that case, I briefly had to grab my JAWS shirt out of the laundry basket. AFAIK it’s by a Californian surfer brand.

Me wearing a blue shirt with sea and shark paining. On the chest pocked is a red embroidered JAWS in all caps.

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Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

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Some more details on the upcoming David Jury book about 20th c. type designers:

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-type-designer-see-stars/

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[Qu’est-ce que le Cnap ?]

Le Cnap est un établissement public du ministère de la Culture. Il soutient la création contemporaine dans les arts visuels, accompagne artistes et professionnels, gère une collection de plus de 108 000 œuvres, et en favorise la diffusion en France et à l’international. Il agit comme opérateur culturel, acteur du patrimoine vivant et soutien à l’écosystème artistique.

👉 https://www.cnap.fr/missions/le-cnap-aujourdhui

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On Monday, we are doing a Let’s talk type session during @Typographics

If we manage to tidy up, we will show the studio a little bit, but mostly it will be our talk Useless Fonts about our more speculative work. There is a limit of 100 people, book your spot!

https://2025.typographics.com/workshops/#useless-fonts

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🔥 Fontstand is working on becoming a cooperative—co-owned and governed by the independent type foundries. No VCs. No middlemen. It’s a radical rethinking of how platforms should work—built on trust, equity, transparency, and shared success at its core.
🔗 https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/creating-the-fontstand-cooperative/

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Join us on Thursday for a free 50-minute online talk exploring the design and development of Terrassa, a typeface inspired by architectural lettering.

📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time. Exclusively for Typotheque Club members*

Become a member for free here.
📍https://www.typotheque.com/club

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J'ai appris la typographie en jouant. 🎲

Un alphabet, c'est comme un puzzle : chaque lettre doit s'emboîter parfaitement avec toutes les autres.
Depuis mes 1eres années aux Rencontres de Lure, j'ai appris que dessiner des lettres, c'est jouer avec les règles. Les respecter ou les contourner.

Cette année Lure s'intéresse au jeu avec "À quoi on joue ?" - pour explorer ce que design et jeu ont en commun.

Qui sera de la partie ? 🎯
https://delure.org/les-rencontres/rencontres-precedentes/rencontres-2025

#RencontresDeLure #Typographie #Design

Visuel promo : À QUOI ON JOUE ? (rencontres de lure 2025)

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@dragonfrog @dgar found this sign in Wellington last time I was there.

Sign with text "Notice: Looking at this sign is forbidden"

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Incredibly proud to be featured on @alphabettes current header with my typeface Sumprat 😊

Screenshot of the Alphabettes website featuring a header that says alphabettes in the colours of the pride flag written in a font that looks like fence

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Only ten days left to apply for the ANRT program 2025–2027!

ANRT Open Call, from March 30th to June 23th, 2025

Candidates should present the personal project, or one of the research programme proposed for this year:
⚪ Missing Scripts 2025: N’TI, ODUDUWA, KULITAN, ZOU (ZOLAI), GURUNG KHEMA and OL ONAL
⚪ Frutiger Archive, 1961-1975
⚪ Renouveau

More information on the website:
https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/apply

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My Rainbow Rocket colour font released today (see up) includes a "Swiftie compatible" colour palette set. Colours taken from Swift’s albums, with the `taylor` R package as a starting point.

Represented are: TSSNTV - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), RedTV - Red (Taylor’s Version), TS1989TVSB - 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Sunrise Boulevard vinyl pressing, and TSLover - Lover.

Swifties, follow and DM for a 100% discount coupon for the TS zip (4 fonts).

#Font #CubicType #Swiftie #RainbowRocket #ad

LINGERING QUESTION reversed out on a stripey background of the Speak Now album colours (the purple ones). It's a nearly symmetric up-and-then-down gradient of purples from lavender to almost black. Except that one stripe has been taken out, because it made the whole thing too dark.

AUTUMN LEAVES reversed out on a stripey background using colours from the Red album (Taylor's Version). Coincidentally, the colours do look somewhat autumnal, with a rust and a dark brown set against 2 shades of a lighter beige.

TANGERINE NEON LIGHT reversed out over a background of stripes that are largely beige, but with an accent of strong red and deep blue. Those colours are taken from the jump on the cover of the 1989 (Taylor's Version) Sunrise Boulevard vinyl pressing.

FEVER DREAM reversed out over a stripey background made from the colour of the Lover album. It's a quite a bright palette of custard yellow, sky blue, with a couple of pinks and a brown. The brightness of the yellow interferes with the clarity of the text.

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Azimut is a series of three interrelated fonts designed as part of the city of Strasbourg’s term as UNESCO World Book Capital in 2024. The typeface is the work of three fabulous designers: Benjamin Blaess, Mathieu Réguer and Julien Priez.

The fonts are available for free download and it was very pleased to be asked me to write an accompanying text. Check the whole project out here!

https://azimut.strasbourg.eu/english.html

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I guess I'm digging through the old internet now, finding great conversations about type and typography. All in my feels about it all.

Which came first? The playbill or the type specimen? https://fontsinuse.com/uses/6/the-typeface-specimen

(Read the comments, too! You don't hear that very often anymore.)

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🚀 Big news! 🚀

I'm launching the type foundry ⋆˙⟡ 𝖕𝖑𝖔𝖒𝖇 𝖙𝖞𝖕𝖊 ⟡˙⋆ — with my talented partner in design, Max Esnée.

https://www.plombtype.com/savate/

Together, we’re crafting a variety of typefaces with distinct voices, and also enjoy working closely with clients on custom designs.

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