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Dan Burzo
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mastodon 4.6.9Designer, tool maker, web platform enthusiast, amateur archivist. Since 2024, building a directory of contemporary independent type design.
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Joined November 09, 2022
Another year of stunning growth, though not sure that 2m tall #tomatoes and their attending side shoots is the preferred presentation... #gardening
Cat just walked across the keyboard, so I might have favorited/boosted/blocked a bunch of people in the span of three seconds... more reasons for keyboard shortcuts to include at least one modifier key!
🎶 This is a WIPing song
A song in which to WIP
While all the men and women sleep
This is a WIPing song
But I won’t be WIPing long
First time composting in the backyard, and this bin (started about a year ago) turned out brilliantly. A sample after sifting.
Back on my #TileRummy investigation: does this style of lettering evoke any particular decade? Perhaps copied from a specific decorative alphabet? It’s more elaborate than expected, especially compared to those E-for-effort Jolly Jokers. We expect pre-1930 tiles to be less standardized in appearance, but there have also been artisanal sets after the period, made for personal use and cruder in appearance.
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: (in order of appearance)
Massive Attack
Portishead
Sigur Rós
Dead Can Dance
Mogwai
The National
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Tindersticks
Blonde Redhead
Post day is best day! feat. @matratype@typo.social / @blaft@mastodon.social and @alphabettes@typo.social.
A spectre is haunting Europe
Tested so you don’t have to: workflows to produce a custom-sized PDF file from a web page in all macOS browsers, using their built-in features.
Strong concept for the cover of this novel titled “The murderer is enjoying himself”.
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@JTDType The current names are only confusing insofar as I would have guessed Display is the largest opsz, and would not be sure about the ordering of Tiny vs Micro.
I was thinking maybe something like the below as a mnemonic for the design concept, without it suggesting actual, absolute optical sizes?
Enfilade 16x
Enfilade 8x
Enfilade 4x
Enfilade 2x
Enfilade 1x
I finally fell for the Update Tonight dark pattern and woke up to macOS Tahoe this morning… stay vigilant!
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Links added:
https://llll.ro/typographica/periodice/grafica-romana/
The new stuff, previously undigitized to my knowledge:
- All the issues of Arhiva grafică
- Grafica română și Publicitatea #105, dec 1934
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OK, I remembered the TypeDrawers discussions:
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/314/printer-recommendations-for-proofing/p1
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/64500
Ooh, Sue Walker is publishing a book on Marie Neurath’s books for children, coming early next year with Bloomsbury. Looks like it’s going to be an instant classic!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marie-neuraths-isotype-books-for-children-9781350375062/
Website complementing the 2019 exhibition:
Stumbled upon this listing the other day, if it’s your thing, budget permitting:
Walter Käch — Schriften / Lettering / Ecritures (starts at €225)
I love the type throughout this early 20th c. French booklet, but the italic in particular is really nice 😍
Catalogue de 123 palettes d’artistes (1911)
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1248563g/f9.item.texteImage
Survived the (this?) heatwave meets full moon double whammy 😮💨
Doing a little infrastructure refresh for llll.ro got me wondering: are there vocabularies, or other markup conventions, for marking up digitized books as to convey #semantics not covered by HTML? (As CSS hooks for now, but possibly doing more interesting things later). Recently bumped into #EPUB Structural Semantics Vocab, but curious if there are any other initiatives in this space (describing book parts) https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-ssv-11/
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@jonmsterling yes! maybe it’s attentional bias but it feels like I’ve read one variation or another of this idea daily these past few weeks, very aggravating
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@Cykelero apparently there are many opportunities on the printing pipeline to mess with the details, eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/indesign/comments/1h0eq4p/can_anyone_recommend_a_printer_that_outputs/
I’ve just learned about the death of Taylor Kirk, founder and frontman of Timber Timbre. RIP.
#WebAPI desideratum:
Intl.Segmenter(locale, { granularity: "linebreak-opportunity" })
Could be used to detect hyphenation support for a certain locale, experiment with justification, etc
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter-v2/issues/12
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@drj Thanks! This sounds like it might open up some rabbit holes. The main spec is a little… intense, but there may be derivative (X)HTML conventions that are useful 🤔
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@crcstudio@mastodon.design Thank you! News not so much these days 🙈 but hopefully back soon!
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@kentlew @letterror I was surprised to not find any spontaneous earthworm populace in the entire bin, just a few maybugs in progress. Maybe they got bored.
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@j9t@mas.to I believe CSS can be misused. Features that exist so that some things are possible in the appropriate context are used inappropriately, either intently or through ignorance: truncation (text-overflow), disabling user interactions (user-select, pointer-events), and other user-hostile touches. It’s interesting to think about how mitigation at the browser level could look like.
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But more importantly, I missed Rachel’s(’s?) 30th anniversary LP reissues from last year. Egon’s gone
https://touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=20
Is it known which approximate year saw the debut of Fonderie Olive’s Cheltenham, Américaines Nouvelles? 1896 sounds anachronistic (Trying to place this flyer in a decade.)
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@sol@typo.social Thank you for this, will try it out! Hope not too obvious of a question but if you‘re preparing the dough beforehand, do you place it in the fridge after the second round of proofing, or just after you’ve incorporated the oil and salt?
Well played, Mutina. Well played.
https://www.mutina.it/en/collection/homage-to-the-square-by-albers-foundation
Is there a synth patch/VST named that, or is it just a coincidence that Rone’s La Marbrerie and The Knife’s Marble House use a similar hihatish pattern?
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@Cykelero Recently got one for the in-laws and and can attest it has been a smooth experience so far, with good looking prints, so it’s definitely on the list. I think there was discussion over genuine vs. emulated PostScript support, and whether it matters in practice. Also some brands that were less familiar.
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@j9t@mas.to Yep, agreed. Outside of probably a “dirty dozen” or so properties that should be handled with care (i.e. which produce bad outcomes when misused, and which I would personally consider “wrong CSS”), I don’t care very much for absolutes in terms of style. As you say, if it gets the job done…
Today in interesting times (pejoratively).
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/steidl-verlag-vorlaeufiger-insolvenz
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@raffaele@digipres.club wow, that’s not something I would’ve thought is in the cards, but it sounds pretty cool!
A sinister episode in my #TileRummy quest: my new collector friend let me know a few tiles were found among the belongings of Auschwitz-Birkenau victims…