Erik van Blokland. I draw nice letters and I make useful fonts. #typedesign #typography #roboFont #lettering #typeMedia #nobridge #fuckai

web: https://letterror.com
New sans: https://letterror.com/actiongrotesque/
About: https://letterror.com/about/

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A quick overview of the asterisms in the LettError fonts. All new titles have have the symbol and I will add them to older ones when useful. I prefer the asterisk with 5 strokes. For LTR Very Bauble the bottom asterisks are rotated inward to create the triangular counter. This is a pretty illusion. For CT Action Grotesque the legibility at 7pt was more important. It is a complex shape and I want to it do its job at scale. By moving the bottom asterisks outward, they create some room for the top asterisk. The whole symbol becomes a bit wider, especially in the heavier weights. Click on the images to 👀 inspect details, some nice outline details in both typefaces, if that is your cup of tea. #fediverse #asterism #fonts #typedesign
https://letterror.com/asterism/

2026-06-17 12:21:38 GMT

I hope this mail finds you well.
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2026-05-05 16:10:32 GMT

Family style dinner. #spaghetti #erikrighthand #fontsinuse #fontsfordinner
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2025-10-31 08:02:08 GMT

Build your own tools. Ask questions, offer support when you can. Contribute. Credit. Experiment. Define and own your formats. Be curious.

2025-08-21 06:44:56 GMT

Karen Hao’s book ‘Empire of AI’ should be required reading for anyone who uses AI. She documents in brutal detail how all resources, water, land, power, all the liberal arts, all intellectual property, entire communities and research capacity, are devoured to make the chat thing work. And while everyone can argue *their* particular case was unavoidable, all AI users are complicit. Link https://karendhao.com

2025-08-13 06:13:04 GMT

@npub1frs…09cc this isn’t critical, and there are alternatives for sure, but if you’re looking for ideas, how about making the Mona ipad app accept drawings and written text from the pen, and insert them as images. Similar to how Messages integrates the pen. It wouldn’t need an elaborate set of drawing tools, just enough to record and communicate visual thinking.
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2025-07-08 06:38:47 GMT

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 #losenowt
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2025-06-21 10:20:48 GMT

No wait hear me out, there’s three sides to this.
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2025-06-12 18:36:03 GMT

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.
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2025-02-27 15:56:42 GMT

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I will try fives first as it is quite busy already. But we don't have to agree :)

2025-02-27 08:07:53 GMT

I really like the proposed asterism symbol, ⁂, U+2042 to represent the Fediverse. “In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info
I might just add it to my fonts, (and perhaps boot the bitcoin, ₿, U+20BF, while I'm at it) Now to see whether I like hexacles (the bestagons) or pentacles..
#charactersetpolitics #fediverse #fonts #typography

2025-02-04 11:22:59 GMT

The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, KABK, has opened an account on PixelFed. Look them up!
https://pixelfed.social/kabk.thehague?fs=1
#socials #pixelfed @highereduction #arteducation

2024-09-25 07:28:30 GMT

Let's do a series of educational posts for the young colleagues. But rather than highlight how easy it is to draw (I love drawing, but it is never easy), let's talk about what to look out for when someone offers to publish your fonts. #contracts

2024-09-20 18:16:57 GMT

Aside, when movies need graffiti, are there graffiti artists who can do anonymous pieces? Like products and phone numbers that are created to be non-specific?

2024-09-08 07:52:56 GMT

Book friends! What could these lines mean? Inside cover, pocket, 1980. #books #publishing
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2024-08-03 14:03:43 GMT

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ordered!