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**Dr. Anna Latour** @anna@mathstodon.xyz · 7h *

Dr. Anna Latour @anna@mathstodon.xyz

I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, but lately I haven't been having the attention span for it.

Therefore, I hadn't really tried out Alex Goldman's new(ish) podcast: Hyperfixed. I'd listened to one episode, but because of the lack of focus, I didn't listen to much more.

Decided to try again this weekend with the latest episode: Little By Little.

It was fab. This episode had exactly all the ingredients that my brain needed to give it its full attention. Music, mystery, tech, history, science, typography. Glorious.

https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/little-by-little

www.hyperfixedpod.comHyperFixed | Little By Little

#Podcast #HyperFixed #Fonts

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**Fonts In Use** @FontsInUse@typo.social · 3d

Fonts In Use @FontsInUse@typo.social

@eWalthert OK, we’ll join in!
https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&tags0=429&tags1=1601
#yellow #vinyl #fonts

Detail from https://fontsinuse.com with thumbnail images for a search for Uses tagged with “yellow” and “vinyl records”. The display uses the “stack” modifier that can be toggled at the top right. Unlike in “grid” mode, no typeface samples are shown.

**Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)** @reillypascal@hachyderm.io · 4d

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal@hachyderm.io

I'm having some typography fun on my site:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/

I'm using the CSS :before pseudo-element to put a chunky dark magenta opening quote before <blockquote>s.

For the <blockquote> styling, I currently have the quote marks for :before absolutely positioned, with the <blockquote> explicitly set to relative

If people have a better suggestion to get the layout I'm using without any absolute positioning, I would love to know!

I also switched from a bit font for headings/Open Sans for body to just Libre Franklin — turns out I love grotesques!

Pixel art of a radio tower and floppy disk, with pixel art text reading 'Reilly Spitzfaden'

reillyspitzfaden.comReilly Spitzfaden, Composer

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#CSS #WebDev #Typography

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**Florian Hardwig** @fhardwig@mastodon.social · 4d

Florian Hardwig @fhardwig@mastodon.social

@jenskutilek @letterror The catalog features some up-and-coming typeface designers, though. @TiroTypeworks @commercial #CreativeAlliance #1990s #fonts #TypeDesign

Detail from the Creative Alliance 9.0 catalog with a specimen for Morticia (1995) by Christian Schwartz, who writes on his website: “This typeface is the worst of my worst. I was wondering, ‘what if serifs were curly?’ The answer is that they would look awful. This was my first attempt at drawing something ‘original’. The proportions are all over the place, and the characters don't really go together. In the mid-90s, a lot of designers were attempting to salvage bad or uninteresting typefaces by giving them rough edges, and this is a prime example of that. I’m just glad I didn't draw any additional weights.” — http://www.christianschwartz.com/morticia.shtml

Detail from the Creative Alliance 9.0 catalog with a specimen for Steve Matteson’s Andy (1993), alongside name samples for Fineprint (1999) and Truesdell (1994)

Detail from the Creative Alliance 9.0 catalog with a specimen for Plantagenet (1995) by Tiro Typeworks, alongside name samples for Aeneas (1994) and Manticore (1995)

**Lester Ward** @wordman@dice.camp · 5d

Lester Ward @wordman@dice.camp

Part of the post-apocalyptic fantasy setting I'm writing involves a group of academics who use a single phonetic writing system to transcribe any language. This took me down a rabbit hole of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) unicode and FontForge.

The setting isn't done, but I’m releasing the phonetic fantasy font I built, and its sources. I thought others might want to join the fun. Let me know if you create your own #arcphon fonts:

https://wordmanward.itch.io/arcphon-kalvalan

itch.ioArcphon Kalvalan by Lester WardA fantasy font using unicode of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

#ttrpg #fonts #IPA

**Rutherford Craze** @mass_driver@typo.social · 5d

Rutherford Craze @mass_driver@typo.social

Lovely to see MD Lórien used for Robin Sloan’s recent zine, The Secret Playbook (on strategies for artists to counter AI models) — and in great company, next to @djrrb’s exceptional Clavichord.

I’m particularly delighted by Robin’s rationale for choosing the typeface: that he tested several, and it came out on top.

https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/secret-playbook/ #fonts #inuse

Closeup of the cover page of Robin Sloan’s zine, ‘The Secret Playbook’. A highly textured Risograph print of a greyscale photo, with ornate, condensed blackletter caps (Clavichord, from DJR) overlaid in red ink.

Closeup of the top corner of the first page (I’m trying to keep the text secret!). ‘The Secret Playbook’ is visible, all caps in a wide sans-serif, with body text below it set in MD Lórien.

**Erik Dunham** @erikdunham@typo.social · May 18

May 18

Erik Dunham @erikdunham@typo.social

A bit of #foundtype from this weekend. #fonts #typography

Plastic sans-serif letters spelling out “shocks”.

A brick building with “dependable seeds” painted on the wall in large capital letters.

Two brick buildings, each with a different design of the text “Hartman memorials”.

**My Joan Private Idaho** @clickhere@mastodon.ie · May 11

May 11

My Joan Private Idaho @clickhere@mastodon.ie

Does anyone know what typeface is used for CMAT's branding? Or the designer?

T-shirt design, which reads: "CMAT is a silly bitch!"

T-shirt design, which reads: "I wanna be a cowboy baby!"

#Typefaces #Fonts #Design

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**Fonts In Use** @FontsInUse@typo.social · May 11 *

May 11 *

Fonts In Use @FontsInUse@typo.social

2/2 Futura Black has been around since 1929, when #PaulRenner added the planar, stencil-like display style to his seminal Futura series for Bauer. You can now study 100 in-use examples dating from 1931 to 2023:
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7655/futura-black
#FontsInUse #FuturaBlack #fonts #typefaces

Advert by the Bauersche Gießerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in Gebrauchsgraphik, November 1929. The copy reads:

FUTURA BLACK – der neue Schlager
Eine Auszeichnungs-Schrift zu unseren erfolgreichen Futura-Schriften. Die Auftraggeber bevorzugen den Drucker, der ihnen das Beste bietet von modernen Schriften für zeitgemäße Drucksachen • Verlangen Sie die Vorprobe unserer Futura Black.

Translation:
FUTURA BLACK – the new hit
A display typeface to our successful Futura typefaces. Clients prefer the printer who offers them the best of modern typefaces for contemporary printed matter • Ask for an advance showing of our Futura Black.

Scan courtesy of IADDB: https://iaddb.org/?query=search=ccobjectid=3615893&showtype=record

**Fonts In Use** @FontsInUse@typo.social · May 11 *

May 11 *

Fonts In Use @FontsInUse@typo.social

This week, not one but two #typefaces joined the exclusive Club at https://FontsInUse.com!

1/2 With ABC Favorit (2016), #Dinamo laid the cornerstone to their success story. The quirky low-contrast grotesk is now documented with one hundred applications in the #FontsInUse Collection:
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/41429/abc-favorit
#ABCFavorit #fonts

Page from a 2016 specimen for Favorit, back when the family comprised a mere four weights (plus Underline styles) with a Latin Extended character set only. Today, Favorit is a large family with five weights and many weights, Mono styles, and support for Greek, Cyrillic, Hangul, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160416045608/http://www.abcdinamo.com/media/attachments/W1siZiIsIjU2ZTMwZDZmNDQ2OTZlMWY2YjAwMDA0MiJdXQ/Favorit_Charactersheet.pdf?sha=496561b744d3f596

**athmane mokraoui [BoF] ⏚ꝃ⌁⁂** @ButterflyOfFire@mstdn.fr · May 10

May 10

athmane mokraoui [BoF] ⏚ꝃ⌁⁂ @ButterflyOfFire@mstdn.fr

Quelques infos à propos de la police de caractères : Amazigh-Motifs via FontForge.

#Tamazight #Motifs #Fonts

**Eugene Alvin Villar** @seav@en.osm.town · May 8

May 8

Eugene Alvin Villar @seav@en.osm.town

I totally didn’t expect that #Nebula, the creator streaming platform, would develop their own font called Nebula Sans, but that it is also open-source and based on Adobe’s Source Sans typeface.

https://youtu.be/GwMuLQPIThQ

YouTubeNebula SansBy Nebula

#typography #typefaces #fonts

**dusoft** @dusoft@fosstodon.org · May 7

May 7

dusoft @dusoft@fosstodon.org

They really used Comics Sans... Is that diverse? #eu #design #fonts #comicsans

**Fonts In Use** @FontsInUse@typo.social · May 4

May 4

Fonts In Use @FontsInUse@typo.social

New on the Blog: #StarWars movie posters from Hungary.

Tibor Helényi’s art and typography demonstrate how the world’s most famous space opera looked very different behind the Iron Curtain:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/41850/star-wars-movie-posters-from-hungary

#TiborHelényi #JohnLangdon #MayThe4th #MayTheFourth
#StarWarsDay #FontsInUse #fonts

Fonts In Use · May 4Star Wars movie posters from HungaryTibor Helényi’s art and typography demonstrate how the world’s most famous space opera looked very different behind the Iron Curtain.

**wakest ⁂** @liaizon@wake.st · May 4 *

May 4 *

wakest ⁂ @liaizon@wake.st

«Methlama by Tawfiq Dawi»
They are based in Amman, Jordan and run https://heyporterposter.com. They released this font with the #Arabic font collective https://ko-type.com

ht to @xhaos for showing it to me
#fonts #typography @typography@a.gup.pe @typography@lemmy.ca

A poster for Methlama, an Arabic pixel font

**Aleksandra Samuļenkova** @aleksandrasamulenkova@pixelfed.social · May 4

May 4

Aleksandra Samuļenkova @aleksandrasamulenkova@pixelfed.social

Some freshly rejected letters. Rejected by a client for a good reason (not legibility, I swear!), but too dear to be forgotten.

#typography #typedesign #typeface #typographic #type #contemporarytype #fonts #graphicdesign #typespire #letters #customfont #fontdesign #alttype

#alttype

**Mark Wyner Won’t Comply** @markwyner@mas.to · May 2

May 2

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply @markwyner@mas.to

Since the late 80s, the typeface foundry Emigre Fonts has been publishing a series of specimen books. They were intended as promotionals. But they turned out to be inspirational eye candy for designers.

@letterformarchive compiled forty of them in the book “Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024.”

It’s nostalgia gold for old-school designers. Something new for the young pups. I could stare at this for hours.

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/emigre-fonts/

Letterform ArchiveEmigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.

#Typography #Design #Fonts

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**Strange Quark** @strangequark@dice.camp · May 2

May 2

Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp

#Letraset dry-transfer lettering was obsoleted by desktop publishing, but as Letraset owned the rights to the fonts they had created, they digitised them and many of their iconic #fonts are still in widespread use.

https://fontsinuse.com/foundry/124/letraset

Fonts In UseLetrasetFounded in London in 1959. Pioneer of dry transfer lettering in 1961, Letraset created many original typeface designs which were later licensed to other foundries and digitized. Founded TSI Typographic Systems International (TSI) in 1979 to license Letraset exclusives to other manufacturers. Esselte acquired Letraset in the early 1980s, and ITC in 1985. Fom 1995, Letraset issued digital typefaces via the Fontek label [Daines 2016]. After Esselte sold Letraset to a management buyout in 2000, it was sold to ColArt in 2012, becoming part of its subsidiary Winsor & Newton. See Uses about Letraset.

**Strange Quark** @strangequark@dice.camp · May 2

May 2

Strange Quark @strangequark@dice.camp

Just thinking about this has made me feel all nostalgic about #Letraset. I created many DIY documents with Letraset back in the day, but they were all consigned to the dustbin long ago.

Letraset gave me my first introduction to #fonts and #typeography. I remember standing in the stationer's looking at all the different fonts on offer and carefully deciding which ones I would spend my pocket money on.