As today is #InternationalGreekLanguageDay, allow us a nod to one of Brill’s most appreciated resources and a trusted companion for students and scholars of Ancient Greek: brill.com/edcollbook/t... The print edition is currently available with 35% off using the code DGBCONF1

The video from this seminar is now online here: youtu.be/vJfhL_5-w-U?...

Just finished reading _Chinese Characters Across Asia_ by @zevhandel.bsky.social l. It’s the clearest introduction I have read about how the Chinese writing system works—dispelling common, long-held misunderstandings—, and how the script was adapted to Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Zhuang.

New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by Paul Hanslow. See these and others at www.tiro.com/fonts/cambria

New Laconia Cherokee specimen images, by Paul Hanslow. See these and more at www.tiro.com/fonts/laconi...

My friend Kelli Anderson’s truly excellent paper-engineering book on the Latin alphabet, Alphabet in Motion, in review on Adam Savage’s Tested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCc... You can buy Kelli’s book at: www.kellianderson.com/books/alphab...

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

When admiring the letterforms of a neon sign, it is easy to overlook the practical logistics of its construction … but look at how much effort goes into the illusion of a continuous line of cursive text.

It’s important for Americans to talk and repost about things that are happening in their country, and I don’t begrudge them doing so on social media, but I really wish platforms like this encouraged use of hashtags to help the rest of the world filter this stuff.

😍 Spotted at a recent conference: an author of ours with a Brill #tattoo! Written in the Brill font, amazingly enough, the #Greek term "Hapax legomenon" describes a word that occurs only once in a body of text. Pretty unique, and we love it! Send us your #academic tattoos if you have them!