reviving type like a pro

Father Catich is my Pope.

HBD Darius Wells born 26 April 1800 Kingsboro, NY. He invented the router—a lateral revolving cutting tool—to make the first machine cut wood types. 1st specimen catalog in 1828 co. became D. Wells & Co in 1835 & Wells & Webb in 1839.

He was an active abolitionist, and ran a “station” on the underground railroad in Patterson, NJ helping enslaved humans make their way north to Canada to live as free humans.

#WoodType #router #letterforms #typography #design #bibliography #archives #libraries

We’ve got mail 2
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Plain Text magazine by @plain_form
Recommended by @underware
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The magazine includes work by Ando Borione @daytonamess (who promised at @fontstand to be back on https://typo.social more often) and an interview with Ellmer Stefan @thepytefoundry about #Asemic Writing.
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https://text.plain-form.com/en/shop/plain-text-1

Type Designers: I am available for freelance work — in particular I am looking to do some more python tool development.
I have been building all sorts of custom extensions for @RoboFont, tooling for optimizing kerning large families, proofing tools, and even PDF invoice tools using DrawBot/Google Sheet/Dropbox.
My website has my GitHub link and more work!

https://connordavenport.com/

In 2023 we announced that the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection had found a home at Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/?utm_source=Mastodon. The work to process over 26,000 trade cards, visiting cards, labels, tickets, and other ephemera is ongoing.

We all know about the Pioneer Plaque and Voyager’s Golden Record but have you seen the ‘Water Words’ on the Europa Clipper. It is a plate made of tantalum and has the waveforms of the sound of the word water in 103 languages engraved on one side.
Its a plate of semiotic beauty and I hope future lifeforms will not listen to it backwards.
https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vault-plate/?ref=longnow.org

A good excuse to (re)read this piece on @typographica

https://typographica.org/on-typography/typewriter-typeface-the-legacy-of-the-writing-machine-in-type-design/

Plain Text #1 has arrived and is looking enticing! The first issue of @plain_form’s printed publication for exploratory type design has contributions by Anne-Dauphine Borione (Daytona Mess), Lucas Descroix, Benjamin Dumond @grifi, Kirsten D. Dzwiza, Stefan Ellmer @thepytefoundry, Ayasha Khan, Zuzana Licko, Arman Mohtadji, William Skeen, and Verso Wurm. Texts in English and French ➽
https://text.plain-form.com/en/shop/plain-text-1

writing EULAs like its sheet music

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are very excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse.

Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander — an ever-growing portal to discover more than 2000 years of visual culture.

Start exploring here: https://pdimagearchive.org/ @pdimagearchive

@kai Gruß-aus-der-Küche Fonts

@kai Hors d’Œuvre Fonts

#nonfundamentaltypequestions

Music for Airports
Kerning for Passwords

Some glyphs that are somehow valid to use in a PostScript name, according to the spec??

!, ", #, $, &, ', *, ,, -, ., :, ;, ?, @, \, ^, `

I looked at this line a million times and it never clicked that I could have been using calling my font families "`@&$#\" (quotes included!) THIS WHOLE TIME

@klim @peirantan @kai Foundry concept right there: Concept-Free Font Foundry. CFF only!

Coolest video I've seen today: an electronic scanner-paint plotter from 1970!

The Footnotes website has a new section called Stories, offering free access to articles of out of print issues of this unique “periodical bulletin of applied research in type design”.

At the moment, this includes Brigitte Schuster’s history of the Swiss Haas type foundry (Footnotes A+B) and @frankrolf’s introduction to A.V. Hershey and his early vector fonts (Footnotes B): https://lapolice.ch/stories/

#TypeDesign #fonts