While we’re at it. #pedantictypetopic an “inktrap” is the name of the problem (a local feature on a letterform that catches crud, ink and fibers while printing on good old letterpress), or the name of the solution (making some more room for the crud). But the word can’t mean both. 🍿

Word of the day, for your comical pronunciations and general appreciation. A double f, double s and no less than seven consonants: “Begriffsschrift” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begriffsschrift Not relevant to the consonants, but in case you follow the link, Wikipedia describes the author […]

Death by millions of curve corrections.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

@blag TIL Frank Oz’ father, Isidor Osnowiez, worked as a signpainter in the Oakland area in the 1950’s. Did you ever hear anything related to that?

There’s only 2 Apple OS’s. The one that stops playing music when you start a video, and the one that doesn’t.

Once I get my printer running again I will make more these tokens. Powerful stuff. Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #lowenowt

Nunchuck laserswords. Nunchuck tennis rackets. Important new things discussed. @bennzorn @jakobfangmeier

Meredith Whittaker interview in the NRC newspaper. Dutch language. (Not sure this will be a gift link, but attempts were made ) […]

Sunday morning designspace-thinking. While it is worthwhile to make each variable font source perfect, the majority of your designspace consists of mixes of these sources. How far does your perfect reach? When and how were you going to look at the actual […] [Original post on typo.social]

No solution exists in three dimensions.

#trump The orange king to stay at the King of Orange.

⭐️🌟✨ 🌟 ⭐️🌟✨ 🌟 ⭐️🌟✨ 🌟 ⭐️🌟✨ 🌟 ⭐️ https://typo.social/@kai/114737995188715132

Moodboard with Human-power Explore, iterate, and bring creative concepts into focus while speaking with a human (6.0) (Get started) I think I can do that.

The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names Here are mine.

Thanks Alfred. https://youtu.be/IUxFLvCVbVM

What began as a imaginary book cover of an imagined Atlas of the World (with nice type) is now… still imaginary and very much made up. But at least Google AI thinks it is an actual book by me! So finally AI made me an author! At least the cover is real. Well. #ai #covers #verybauble #aislop

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book […]

Oh look, Monotype scaring the senior leadership of their clients into… a zombie DSIG !? 🧟‍♂️ I bet the keys to sign your “secure fonts” can only be rented for a steep membership? Not to mention on how this would work for streaming or subset fonts. Discuss.

Can’t get InDesign to boot. Sequia 15.5 (24F74). Fresh Indesign install, first keeping preferences and settings. Then I tried a completely clean install. No dice, keeps crashing. Any suggestions? Is there a “safe mode” boot? A “forget everything I said before can […] [Original post on typo.social]

Maybe I should make an update of my handwriting fonts. The old ones are smelling funny.

If a background draws itself but no one looks at it, does the forest still burn?

CSS: can I use the width of a div as a parameter in calc()?

@tjaap mastodon ftw!

Getting your own stuff back feels good. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/30/taylor-swift-buys-back-master-recordings-taylors-versions

Ready for my billion dollar merger.

man it’s good to see friends in places: https://www.future-fonts.com/queertype/antiphony

@flaviazim hi Flavia! I think I accidentally reported a message from you. I have no idea how that happened! I had no intention to do that. Unblocked, unreported. Sorry if this caused a problem!

Longboard 1.3.9. In which @arthurfontzarelli does some plumbing to make Longboard compatible with exciting upcoming buttonsin DSE2. And a new contextual menu for copying previews while exploring the designspace. That is all.

Dutch word of the day: "doorstroomvennootschappen". Something like shellcompanies, if I understand that correctly. Three pairs of o! Double n, double p. Throat clearing clusters rstr and tsch. Source: @volkskrant

BBC journalist Anna Holligan with her unique mobile bicycle studio in The Hague. And then the bike got stolen. BBC: https://nos.nl/l/2568640 NOS: https://nos.nl/l/2568640 #bicycling #cargobike #sustainability #reporting @BBCNews @NOS

Why you should support open source platforms run by nonprofits over small tech start-ups: A story in four acts. Act 1: I'm so sick of the evil monopolists Big Tech Co has become. That's why I'm moving to this innovative start-up. I mean sure it's not open source per se, but they support open […]

Headline from today’s @volkskrant “weggeëbd”, present perfect of the verb“wegebben”. Three e’s, double g, bd, what’s not to like. #kerning #spacing #letters

The University of Amsterdam made a video about the lettering on their new library! https://campus.uva.nl/en/content/news/2025/05/do-read-the-ubs-facade-screen-is-up.html @UvAHumanities #lettering #amsterdam #uva #library

“A little Verdana showing, from Microsoft". Early specimen for Verdana. Source.. Microsoft? 1996?

To those who thought all those shiny AI goodies would remain free, the screws are turning. https://mastodon.social/@verge/114539732281723788

"Congratulations on winning the Creative Alliance CD and 464-page catalogue as your prize at the 1997 Typo Quiz. Call Alison Doyle at Monotype about special offers from the CD! We look forward to hearing from you. with compliments" In original plastic seal […] [Original post on typo.social]

«Whatever you’re building, you have NO margin to get away with being uglier/harder/more difficult than big tech» Some good points in this piece on "What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech" by @bert_hubert! […]

New York Times Magazine, apparently. October 2000. Colorful stuff. LTR Federal #archive #clean #ad

Huh onethird is spelled with eth.

Going through the shelves. Look at this cute analog pen and wash drawing of some sort of digital house? With centronics port and floppy bay no less. Some illustration work from 1991. #illustration #pen #ink #centronics #house #brain

These served me well: classic Python books, but now they have to go. If anyone is interested in recent Pythonic history: pick up in The Hague. Otherwise these tomes will be resigned to the old paper. Box set. No shipping. #python #oreilly #reference #code #history

What a fragile heap of poo is Jekyll. I need to move.

You know that in HR education there are classes dedicated to managing workload complaints by planning workinggroups and scheduling meetings on the subject.

When the Miele aquastop stops.

Music themed NEWS LTR №16 for your eyes, in your mails, if you happen to subscribe the LettError News LTR. But you can always read the archives. Or sign up. It is free. https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/

Father Catich would have had one or two things to say about this inscription for pope Francis. Photo source https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-tomb-adorned-with-single-white-rose-in-first-images-as-mourners-line-up-to-pay-respects/ar-AA1DHDm5

Nightingales, thrushes and chiff chaffs. #dunes

I guess next year it will be safe to travel to the US again.