Community is everything and printers know that well. So @blountben.bsky.social & I are leading the charge to host WayzgooseORD (WORD) here in Chicago. It’s a new gathering for the print community to share their shops, knowledge and friendship. More info: wayzgooseord.com

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

Glad I don’t have to pretend to care about football anymore.

I initially read this on my phone. Do yourself a favor and open it on desktop to get the full impact of these gorgeous typefaces.

I wrote a little about my favorite typefaces from 2025. okaytype.com/blog/okay-ty...

Oo, I drew something for this project too. Went a little crazy durning lock down.

Throwback to the city commissioning art to promote vaccines in 2021. 7-color print, all metal & wood type. More info & process here: www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

The Best of Neon: Anthropomorphic Beer greets the new year.

thrilled to announce see/saw's top 54 punk + rock'n'roll records of 2025: a physical newsprint broadsheet. not publishing online! just got these on the doorstep today and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. order a copy! happy holidays!

The pretty sick of the President Goatse timeline.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Monotype once again giving our whole industry a bad name

Just remembered this headline from September.

The August 27th, 1995 episode of 120 Minutes might have been the best episode ever. Hosted by Soul Asylum. Videos from PUSA, Pennywise, Matthew Sweet, Built to Spill, Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt, John Spencer, Wilco, That Dog, Bjork, Ramones, Gas Huffer, CIV, Pavement. All so good.

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂

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

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

We have thundersnow.

this weather map is truly unhinged.

From the top rope

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

There is no better pen pal than @kennedyprints.bsky.social. Got me a stack of these now.

RIP Uni-Watch uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

More shit copied directly from the nazis.

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Brand designers love the control, originality and ownership of making their own fonts. But how is custom type reshaping the culture and economy of type design itself? I wrote about why so many design studios are creating fonts and what it means for the rest of us! www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

Serious question: What happened to all those giant copies of the Constitution that I saw being carried in the protests on Saturday? Where do they live? Asking for a friend who collects Constitutions.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Approved!

Get yers shop.dansinker.com

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

James Mosely's series of lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for everyone to watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Chicago is the best city

Incredibly disappointed to hear the stories coming out about the Hamliton Wood Type Museum right now. It's a special place so I'm really hoping they get their shit together. Until then (and forever) I'm happy to support my letterpress friends.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

Fascinating to see how Mastodon reacted to this post. I generally see a similar level of “engagement” on the two platforms, so I think this really shows how Bluesky culture still normalizes the use of problematic platforms (especially Substack!), while Mastodon abhors them.

New Cherokee fonts developed by Chris Skillern (@tulseytype.bsky.social‬) and Osage fonts developed in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Harjo, which after five years of community-partnered research, marks a complete Indigenous North American Type collection! www.typotheque.com/blog/novembe...

Haven’t posted a pizza here in a while. The concept was simply “green things in the fridge” but it ended up being incredibly good. Scallions, green olives, anaheim pepper, basil.

… Ghost itself proves that same simple truth when it comes to platforms. Unlike our venture-backed peers obsessed with growth at all costs, we’re structured as a non-profit foundation that serves publishers directly with open source software.”

“After more than a decade of clickbait undermining media credibility, subscription-based publishers discover a simple truth: Producing high quality content that readers genuinely value is a far better business than chasing low quality page views for diminishing ad revenue. ghost.org/changelog/6/...