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Hey! The launch party has morphed into a launch festival: Our friends at Papa Borracho are hosting the after party, with dj contributions from sound artist Alexander Rishaug, Dj Poplove (of Perfect Pop fame), Fri ortografi & letterpress-printer Dj 12 Cicero. Doors open at Cappelens Forslag 1800 hrs, with a smörgåsbord of nerdyness.
I would like to have a section in our EULA about what we promise to deliver, and struggle to quantify what is expected from a font file beyond following the OpenType spec. Wordings like "according to contemporary/current standards" seems very vague. Can you point to good examples of type foundry EULAs that address this?
New face, and 1 October there will be a new digital space. Shareable event link for the launch party: https://visitoslo.cruncho.co/nb-NO/place/A0z1dE/UnpackingMyLibraryLanseringsfestforMonokromSkriftforlag?origin=%2Fevents%3FsearchString%3DMonokrom
@tphinney@typo.social Speaking of amoral activities: the fact that you sit on the board of @atypi@typo.social which allows a representative of ParaType to speak at the 2026 conference is, quite frankly, appalling.
Scribes, meditation, breathing patterns, and the visual rhythm of written script: That’s a thesis I’d like to read!
“Times New Woman”
Letter from William Morris to Mrs Morris, 1 November 1848.
Gorgeous example of Northern Sámi writing by Lars Jacobsen Hætta, 1863. The accented mark that eventually morphed into the caron was, from the start, something completely different. The second image shows Jens Andreas Friis’ spelling, which he developed in collaboration with – or informed by? (I haven’t yet gone in to the full story) – Hætta during Hætta’s imprisonment in Oslo for his role in the Kautokeino riots.
Condensed Garland is jam-packed with-eye catching details. Which character is your favorite?
Bram de Does, the matrices for Kaba.
Today is a great day to join a union. Might not be the most obvious thing for a solo designer, but it can be a first step away from the neo-liberal impulses that define contemporary graphic design – such as chasing autonomy and peer recognition, and conflating your personal worth with financial success.
Supplementary reading: J. Dakota Brown’s The Power of Design as a Dream of Autonomy https://www.jdakotabrown.net/writing/autonomy-pamphlet-2019
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That is, Peter Simon Pallas’ spelling in Linguarum totius urbis vocabularia comparativa from 1786.
One powernaps, two powernapsies
Planning an outing to Amsterdam > Haag > Antwerp in the start of May. If you have any suggestions for record stores (digging for highlife, soukous from ~56–78, 80s–90s indie, shoegaze, some neo-classical, and whatever obscure gems I come across), they are most welcome!
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… which is about as far as you can come from riffing on local cultural expression for the purpose of consumption by an international design audience.
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@ottaross@mastodon.social Very happy to learn of this. Initially wrote off DDG for the AI. Thanks for sharing.
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@jla@typo.social Wouldn’t the casing behaviour depend on external software, and not the font?
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@jla@typo.social * Note: I am not well versed enough in Unicode practice to know how they deal with changing casing rules.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/norway-trad-folk-scene-report
Norway’s Trad Folk Scene is Booming. Hayden Merrick for Bandcamp Daily.
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@jla@typo.social I have used a feature to convert ß to ss for small caps because WebKit doesn’t do that properly. InDesign applies the casing before triggering the feature, and nicely strips out many-to-one in the default paragraph composer. For case, ß has always mapped to SS without any bugs on the software side (which will change if Unicode redefines). I would be curious to hear what kind of features you are using!