Highlighting the process of (apparently) immediate stuff being remediated into enmediating equipment. #dialectic #apple

History of ligature in writing and typography. First part: blazetype.eu/blog/history-o… The last part will be published online next month, and will cover the Gutenberg period till now: movable type, linotype & monotype, phototypesetting and the digital era.

—I like it but there’s something not quite right…It’s the O .. all the other letters have pointy bits —Serifs —Yeah, can you add some serifs to the O and then I think we’re good —[haunted by compunction]

This week's FontLife blog now live✨️ ‘PRE-DIGITAL PROJECT COMPLETED' What on Earth could cause me to resurrect an experiment abandoned 43 years ago? 🔗Link below: shinntype.com/pre-digital-pr…

💾 Type Design Like It’s 1987 by Mark Simonson Studio Mark Simonson Studio A live demo of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus for Type Tuesday (June 11, 2024) #MacintoshPlus #typography #TypeTuesday youtu.be/Cqbnocp7j_A?si…

The original dazzle camouflage 🦓

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model. fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/ #llamattf

Elizabeth Goodspeed A materialist reading would highlight that the demographic it’s targeting are curtailed by political economy (very little chance of saving enough money to buy a property in the area where creative industries are based). Aesthetics = material conditions.

How else to understand this design other than the triumph of corporate aesthetics and its wilful disregard for research in constructing the new.

EP–1320 medieval by teenage engineering teenage.engineering/products/ep-13… youtube.com/watch?v=LVLsRv…

Type Choice, Political Choice – ⁩ written by⁩ Agyei Archer Agyei published on ⁦Typographica (2019) typographica.org/on-typography/…

National Letters: Languages and Scripts as Nation-building Tools. letter-books.com Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian