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abadidea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

One of my professors at the Leiden summer school told me something interesting. Historically, many linguistics textbooks and papers have been physically published in Leiden, often featuring ancient or minority writing systems. Before the digital typesetting era, typesetters in Leiden were contractually obligated not to learn any rare writing systems or languages, and to work purely by verifying that the typeset text looked visually identical to the submitted manuscript. This is because when you can read it, you're inevitably going to transcribe what you think you read, not what you actually read, which is a big problem when the entire point is to showcase exactly what ancient people did write and not what we think they should have written

#linguistics #typography #typesetting
abadidea
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

One of my professors at the Leiden summer school told me something interesting. Historically, many linguistics textbooks and papers have been physically published in Leiden, often featuring ancient or minority writing systems. Before the digital typesetting era, typesetters in Leiden were contractually obligated not to learn any rare writing systems or languages, and to work purely by verifying that the typeset text looked visually identical to the submitted manuscript. This is because when you can read it, you're inevitably going to transcribe what you think you read, not what you actually read, which is a big problem when the entire point is to showcase exactly what ancient people did write and not what we think they should have written

#linguistics #typography #typesetting
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

i just did a fun presentation at work in which i talked about 'how i learned to keep doing things i suck at' and

i talked about how one year i decided to take a typography class thinking it was 'learn to choose typography' and then it turned out to be 'make a typeface'

i was the only person there who wasn't a designer, who didn't know how to use indesign, etc, but the instructor was so kind and welcoming she was like 'stick around, do something fun, i want to see what a 'non-designer' ends up making'

and i ended up making this

will i ever be a designer? probably not

but

i had a lot of fun and that's what mattered

#typography
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

i just did a fun presentation at work in which i talked about 'how i learned to keep doing things i suck at' and

i talked about how one year i decided to take a typography class thinking it was 'learn to choose typography' and then it turned out to be 'make a typeface'

i was the only person there who wasn't a designer, who didn't know how to use indesign, etc, but the instructor was so kind and welcoming she was like 'stick around, do something fun, i want to see what a 'non-designer' ends up making'

and i ended up making this

will i ever be a designer? probably not

but

i had a lot of fun and that's what mattered

#typography
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

i wish literally anyone was making cursive monospace fonts suitable for terminal use, along the lines of Bitstream's Script 12 Pitch (based on the IBM Selectric Script font)

Alexsandar Stevanov did some but they're severely lacking in glyphs. there's DutchFonts' Pigtail. anything else?

P. S. here's the rest of the Selectric typewriter fonts Bitstream digitized). nostalgiaaaa

#typography #fonts

Anke
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Murray GM - Paperposts
@Paperposts@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

was looking at a vintage folding rule my partner has. it’s one of those beautifully crafted wooden, boxwood and brass tools. it’s by Hockley Abbey (John Rabone and Sons tools in Birmingham, UK). common thing as they were making 27,000 a week by 1945!
but it’s the #numerals that i’m taken by, look at the curls on the 2 and 3.
#typography#vintageTools #vernacular
Murray GM - Paperposts
@Paperposts@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

was looking at a vintage folding rule my partner has. it’s one of those beautifully crafted wooden, boxwood and brass tools. it’s by Hockley Abbey (John Rabone and Sons tools in Birmingham, UK). common thing as they were making 27,000 a week by 1945!
but it’s the #numerals that i’m taken by, look at the curls on the 2 and 3.
#typography#vintageTools #vernacular

Anke
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karafuto
@karafuto@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 8 months ago

I recently found out - completely by accident - that a friend of mine opened a type foundry (sadly we have not been in touch much for a long time).

The first font she published there... is named after me. My goodness blobcatmeltcry Here's a link to the shop https://libraryofnarrativetypes.xyz/fonts/lnt-natalia-mono

Do check out her works at https://libraryofnarrativetypes.xyz/. Nóra is the most talented, thoughtful and hard working designer I'm honored to be friends with 🤍

#typography #type #design #fonts