A deep bow to @kellianderson.bsky.social for the astonishing ambition of Alphabet in Motion. My favorite pop-up mechanisms are those that clearly explain principles of type design that are difficult to show in static images: #KelliAnderson #PopupBooks #TypeDesign #Lettering

Last night’s opening reception of “Piet Zwart: Brand Architect” was a great beginning for a great exhibition at @letterformarchive.org. Well worth a visit!

Still my favorite photo and caption in any book ever. (Muriel Cooper, by Daniel Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger. MIT Press, 2017.) #MurielCooper

If you’re at all interested in type history, the Stephen O. Saxe fellowship at RIT is a great opportunity to dig into one of the deepest troves of specimens & foundry documents. I’d love to see more of his collection surfaced through research. www.rit.edu/carycollecti... #TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens

Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

Also, you get a comma. And a capital S which is usually a more useful test than T. Shorter phrases for font testing: library.typographica.org/short-phrase...

Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...

IBM Selectric typewriters have appeared in countless movies and TV shows, but no individual machine will ever be seen as many times as Stephen J. Cannell’s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3s...

Thank you to the folks at the @flickrfdn.bsky.social for asking me some truly fantastic questions about archiving, the ephemeral nature of digital archiving, and what I've learned from working with Brits. (As ever, Flickr remains the best website on the internet!!!) www.flickr.org/a-chat-with-...

Erik Marinovich & Lucas Sharp’s new Rotina is very fun. www.sharptype.co/typefaces/ro... I like how Erik brings his lettering instincts into his type design. The Swash, a refined improvement on 1970s Helvetica & Univers Flairs (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/16...), is what the promos feature most,

Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :) Wrote it in preparation for a talk. Warning — it is slow, real time. #calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk

An IG type specimen for a one-off display face by a young, trendy designer? No, this is Monotype in 1971. www.flickr.com/photos/stewf... #Neographik #TypeSpecimen #Fonts #Typography

Tweeted in 2011. Let's make it true in 2026!

Right-wing typography seems to be lining up behind Instrument Serif. First the White House, now tech dystopia.

I got to spend a couple hours today with the family and friends of the late, great Jim Parkinson at his house in the Oakland hills. These melancholy occasions are always redeemed by the chance to reminisce and reflect on life.

I’d love to see tech pundits be as critical about the industry’s abdication to Trump as they are about UX or business decisions. Tim Cook funds the Fealty Ballroom and hardly a peep out of the Apple writers.

A great talk packed with type nerdery and ending on a heartwarming note. Skin & Bones was fairly successful for VGC fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31..., but earned Douglas F. Jones only $240 over a decade. Mark’s 2024 restoration will bring Jones double that amount within its first two years.

❣️ (Heart Exclamation) has become a go-to emoji for me. Strangely, I never stopped to think of its origin. Hermann Zapf, of course! It was among dozens of his 1978 Dingbats adopted into Unicode 1.0 in 1991. The block was even initially named after the typeface! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat...

I can’t wait for proportional typefaces to be in fashion again.

My Birra Lambic typeface and calligraphy pages in Letter Exchange yearbook, a couple of years ago. I write with a flat brush — and actually the Birra Lambic design was based on some of my calligraphic sketches, a blend of Celtic and Italic #typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva

Parch was designed in reverse using simple shapes to create the negative space. Check out the variable font tester on our website to see what it can do. store.overlaptype.com/fonts/parch #typedesign #variablefonts #experimentaltypography

i guess Cuomo is just using Mamdani's campaign design now

It’s puzzling that in 2025, with all the energy and money Google has invested in web fonts, these are still the only options in Gmail. (Of course, this low on the list of the many reasons not to use Gmail.)

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers. #LetterformArchive #100Tens

Everett’s Bar, Arcata, CA. While we were shooting this sign, someone from behind asked why we’re taking photos. Turns out she’s the owner. There has been a bar at this location since the early 1900s. Her dad bought it in 1951, and it’s been in the family ever since. She invited us to see inside.

People perceive thickness of letters very individually, and that’s why we are conducting Font Weight Survey to understand the regional preferences of font weight. Could we ask you for 10 min of your time? The findings will be published publicly once we have some results. tptq.com/weight

“Following Prof. Mosley’s death in August 2025, the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication is pleased to make the recordings generally available in agreement with the Mosley estate.” youtu.be/lBfDu3McE3k?...

Big thanks to @fairetype.bsky.social who just renewed their Fonts In Use sponsorship for another year. Please support them with a follow and a visit to www.fairetype.com.

@slye.bsky.social and I are bringing back our type selection workshop to @letterformarchive.org, Oct 25–26: letterformarchive.org/shop/a-crash...

Guerilla Toss “You’re Weird Now” is out today on Sub Pop! Had a blast making artwork for this one (if you can’t already tell).

Without looking it up, guess when this theater was built.

Hey, friends, do any of you know of a good reading (or instruction manual?) on reading pre-1900 (let's say 1700-1923) handwritten texts? Some of the students in my History of Reading class want to focus their final projects on older "traces of reading" and would love more specific instruction +

Fall lineup of Type Electives’ free Fall Virtual Lecture Series, all on supporting linguistic diversity. typeelectives.substack.com/p/supporting...

Just noticed the Ephemera Society of America posted my 2024 talk about our @letterformarchive.org Strikethrough exhibition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bL...

You know you’re at Neon Speaks online symposium (neonspeaks.org/2025-schedule/) when…

The extra space after the “of” is because you take a long breath before saying the next word.

Happy to have been able to contribute some thoughts to @goodspeed.bsky.social’s latest piece for @its-nice-that.bsky.social. It’s great to see an article on design ethics consider type and UX, which generally don’t follow the typical client–agency model. www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...

Thank you to Chloe Gordon Cordover at The Dieline for chatting with me about moodboarding and design multiverses! thedieline.com/how-efficien...

The ingenuity of 19th-century newspaper ads never ceases to amaze me. This is 1880: fontsinuse.com/uses/24847/w... #Typography #GraphicDesign #Victorian #1880s

Your post is a much-needed contrast to all the “design finally has a seat at the table” think pieces floating around that that completely miss the point that design DID have that seat and built amazing public goods before the admin yanked the chairs. As a former USDSer, thank you.

🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

While other tourists are taking pics of the Gothic fan vaults of the Kings College chapel, I'm getting shots of these terrific keep off the grass signs. The Kings College signpainter knows what they're doing! #cambridge

Here’s Catherine Dixon’s obituary of James Mosley for Eye www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ja...

It gives me great pleasure to reject the silly American convention of putting punctuation in quotes, regardless of whether it’s part of the quote. Just like the Oxford comma, I am all for the British quotation standard, even with American double quote marks.

It’s been a joy trawling @letterformarchive.org with @typozon.bsky.social for this salon. See you next week in person or online. letterformarchive.org/shop/the-pas...

Welcome sign Cleveland, ND

New favorite account. Going through and faving all of the MN and ND pics; the inside of my heart looks like this part of the world.

Gladly made my annual gift to @archive.org, a service that costs nothing to use, runs no ads, and yet I depend on daily. (E.g., digitized texts are an essential source for library.typographica.org/specimen-boo... and @fontsinuse.com.) Donate now to keep it free and open to all: archive.org/donate