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davidsudweeks

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Type design with emphasis on drawing and spacing

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onpaperwings, to random
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I genuinely think that developers of corporate websites should be forced to load their websites on airplane wifi to see how absolutely bloated and unusable they become.

Signed,

Someone on airplane wifi

davidsudweeks,
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@onpaperwings Someone who I’m guessing doesn’t appreciate the decision making that put an 80MB, 12 second hero video montage of people smiling at nothing in particular on the login page

stewf, to random
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I’m a slow reader. One reason is that interesting articles or books will spark a thought that relates to my life and I’ll start thinking about that while my eyes continue to follow the text until I snap out of it and I realize I haven’t really read the last five sentences. Does this happen to anyone else?

davidsudweeks,
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@stewf Yes, even (especially?) when reading aloud.

stewf, to cars
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It’s not only that some Americans prefer bigger cars, our government incentivizes them. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

davidsudweeks,
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@stewf You said it right, Stephen. While the EPA thinks it incentivizes automakers to create more fuel efficient engines, what they in fact incentivize is larger cars and trucks with the same old (often less efficient) engines in them.

[A graph showing CAFE fuel economy standards, based on vehicle footprint Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM](https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/355/940/325/801/055/original/9dd618a3bae79c8f.png)

scott, to random
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    davidsudweeks,
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    @scott If not default, the language or write mode would have to be explicitly set for the text to be composed properly, wouldn’t it? Certainly not as straightforward, but you could write your own ‘context aware’ properties based on writing direction and (line stacking direction ?) if you were somehow able to extract these from the relevant meta tag or wherever. Right?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @scott Sounds like a cool project. Sorry, I'm obviously not even clear on the terms I’m using. What I meant was you might be able to find the computed CSS values for text-mode and writing-orientation based on values the user (or the user agent?) specifies. (And then adjust your ‘advance direction bit’ etc. based on which way the text reads.)
    I agree that keeping a list of languages and their default write-modes should be unnecessary.

    onpaperwings, to random
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    Just clipping newspapers like usual in a bathing suit… 🙄

    (from “Linotype News” December 1948, Vol. 27, No. 2)

    davidsudweeks,
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    @onpaperwings This particular venue seems a bit off though Esther Williams in a swimsuit is functionally equivalent to Bill Nye showing up to a press event in a white lab coat. Was there a diving tank outside in the parking lot?

    typographica, to calligraphy
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    Anyone know a good short video that demonstrates through action the differences between calligraphy and lettering (at least as they are most often broadly defined – written vs. drawn)?

    #Calligraphy #Lettering

    davidsudweeks,
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    @typographica maybe Martina Flor has some footage from this project?

    litherland, to random
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    I wonder how many italic-first designs there are in the world? (I don’t mean italic only, but families where the italic has been designed first.) 🤔

    Anyway I already loved the italic, and now here’s the roman, featuring sans serif caps mixed with a serif lower case.

    From Tim Ripper and Paul Barnes, based on Miller & Richard’s News Bill Italic

    https://vault.commercialtype.com/vault/punch

    davidsudweeks,
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    @litherland When you’re cutting your way through the wilderness, italic first is a great and freeing way to work. Let the design lead where it may, and (compared to the other way around) it’s almost a negligible effort to develop its counterpart Roman.

    JTDType, to random
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    Who says there’s no money in type design?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @JTDType I log in to social media and what do I see? Bragging, bragging, bragging.

    fhardwig, to random
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    Farewell, my dear Abc-ist.

    Jan Middendorp, 1956–2023

    davidsudweeks,
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    @fhardwig A dear friend and colleague. What a writer! What an appreciator of the good stuff.

    clauseggers, to random
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    I want a new printer, but oh Brother which one is Oki for typeface design? I don’t need to Xerox, and probably can’t afford it since I’m not Epson of neither Hewlett nor Packard. Surely such a device is in the Canon of every graphic designer? Where can Ricoh for answers?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @clauseggers If you’ve got space for it, I’d look for a large model that’s slightly out of date. I found a nicely maintained older Xerox (made in 2007 I think) mono laser printer with native PostScript for around $50. Plugs into the home wireless router and cranks out proofs all day long.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @clauseggers Candidly, I expected a more noticeable improvement going to 1200dpi native PostScript from my old 600dpi HP. Especially at small sizes I still get anomalous spacing. My workaround is to proof at multiple sizes, or to review enlarged proofs through a reducing glass.
    Can you point to a machine that has the output quality you’re looking for (at any price)?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @clauseggers Out of curiosity, are you aware of any 10–20 year old printers with similar output? Or is this level of precision on paper a recent development?

    TiroTypeworks, to random

    I have long considered speed to be one of the characteristics that traditionally distinguishes italics from roman, so was delighted to discover that the numbers in my car’s heads-uo display change from upright to slanted when the driving mode is set to Sport.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @TiroTypeworks

    DunwichType, to random
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    I have gone from working at home in pajama pants to walking the dogs in pajama pants and pretty soon I’m going to start buying groceries in pajama pants.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @DunwichType He was buried in his pajama pants. Everyone at the funeral wore pajama pants. The preacher looked out and said, “In keeping with the solemn nature of this assembly, please take a moment to silence your cell phone.” He fished his own out of a loose hanging pajama pants pocket and awkwardly held it up, as if to say ‘come on folks, let’s make an effort.’

    onpaperwings, to random
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    Seriously considering cancelling Amazon Prime as it is up for renewal in a month at $139 plus tax.

    We don’t use it ALL the time, but of course it is nice to have for the “free” shipping.

    Any other people (or families) out there that have done it?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @onpaperwings Could 3 out of 4 American households be wrong? I think you deserve to give yourself a $139/month raise just for asking the question, Doug. With the exception of a single monthly magazine, the Sudweeks household is happily subscription free.

    davidsudweeks, to random
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    When you get the chance I recommend crying while driving your five year old daughter to school as she reads you the last chapter of Charlotte’s Web.

    davidsudweeks, to random
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    Good: Don’t let the perfect be an enemy of the good.

    Perfect: Let’s fight.

    JTDType, to random
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    More people need to be aware of what they’re missing out on when they work for Google Fonts.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @JTDType It would be informative to try something like placing an expiration date on an open source project like this.
    Work out in your contract with Google Fonts that they pay up front for development costs, the font is published open source, but then after a set term, they sunset it, unpublish the source, etc. and its designer does with it what he will.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @JTDType There’s of course no guarantee that one in ten thousand of the initial takers would seek Nick out for a full price annual web license after its source was re-closed, but I bet some would.

    By the way—did he get the math wrong on this? .01% of 24k is 2.4
    Google Fonts payed him less than the price of 3 ‘typical basic annual web licenses’ (over some unspecified period of years) to open source Bellefair? And he agreed to this?

    davidsudweeks,
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    @DunwichType I could have been clearer. What I meant was hypothetically that Google Fonts would remove it from their site / repos after an agreed-upon period. I’m aware of the complexity of putting toothpaste back in the tube, etc..

    celiason, to random
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    This was the Portlandest thing I saw in Portland

    davidsudweeks,
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    @celiason
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    “TO WHOEVER BROKE THIS”
    ^

    onpaperwings, to random
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    Yet again, I am here, dear friends, asking what phrase I can use to replace “fleshing out” because it feels too medical and creepy and gross.

    davidsudweeks,
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    @onpaperwings I take “flesh out” to mean something like “to add a comfortable level of development to a previously barebones idea.” In which case a type designer “adds upon” or “furthers” or simply “pushes” the design to a desired result. Frank farmers’ terms for getting one’s setup investment back:
    “fatten up,” and “milk.”

    mass_driver, to random
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    Has anyone managed to change the Mastodon fonts (on the web) with user stylesheets? It looks like the content security policy effectively makes it impossible

    davidsudweeks,
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    @mass_driver @Okay This is good information. Thanks for asking, Rutherford. Hoping to soon browse screenshots here of the Mastodon CSS Zen Garden.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Musk and Zuck may fight in court: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads

    X Corp. claims Meta used Twitter trade secrets and ex-employees to build Threads.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-and-zuck-may-fight-in-court-twitter-threatens-to-sue-meta-over-threads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    davidsudweeks,
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    @arstechnica X Corp World Headquarters

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