I run @HEX where I make fonts and websites.
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Last Notes npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…edye I have a copy! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman $100 reward to anyone who can render a $1 bill on a webpage at actual size (as measured on the screen) without knowing the device. Serious. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…965h Yes, also ImageMagick has really extensive options for exporting graphics with tons of settings. But without live previews there’s a lot of trial and error involved. I also definitely prefer a GUI over command line tools for stuff like this. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Is there a modern image compression tool for macOS that offers anything even close to the control from Photoshop’s “Save for Web (Legacy)”? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…5g26 A gem spotted for you at the NY International Antiquarian Book Fair over the weekend. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…gt58 I would say your named sizes are confusing, not just because the order isn’t totally obvious, but also because some of them (esp. “Headline”) have implications beyond just size. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…zmtw Greetings from Bangkok 🙏 npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wguy … Though, this explanation makes a good case against using “final” as well (at least for the deliverable release): npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wguy npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…nqgz Not exactly what you want because the locking isn’t biometric, but I’m glad iPhones have the quick and easy functionality to initiate a password-only lockdown: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman ❝ … it’s like eating the part of the burrito that is only rice.❞ npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…cqgf @nprofile…e9hc @nprofile…g56g For whatever it’s worth, when I got the Adobe request to record my screen (https://typo.social/@nicksherman/110239055746383116), I denied it and it didn’t seem to impact my ability to use the color picker at all. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman … Sidenote: Kepler is a great, under-appreciated type family and I wish more people would use it. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Something that’s bothered me for a long time about Safari is how it can really sabotage the spacing of fonts by rounding their glyph positions. It’s most notable with medium-to-large type, especially when resizing windows, which causes glyphs to jump around in whole-pixel increments. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wguy Is this kinda like what you’re looking for? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…j8aq This article explains some of the reasons I root against the Patriots despite being raised in New England and having zero interest in any other NFL teams, or US football in general: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…0g4k … Maybe slightly off-topic but for “other wishes”: I definitely prefer when a feed includes at least some content other than a barebones title. Having the full content of each new entry is ideal, but even a truncated summary and/or image with a link is better than nothing. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…0g4k I use the RSS Button extension for Safari (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rss-button-for-safari/id1437501942) to find the feed(s) I want from a page. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…4xuv Coincidentally I just picked up this amazing live album from Zero Sum, whose vocalist I think* is a Black woman: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…dd9w @nprofile…aane Ok now I definitely need to try this out with the Shop Sans Curve variable font and animate its curvature axis along with the bouncy baseline. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…a2j4 @nprofile…j074 @nprofile…nram @nprofile…39tx I also like the wolf-bear looking beast on this Flinsch specimen book: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…hkdp Just the other day @nprofile…39tx was asking about this too: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman MyFonts AI search results for nationalist right-wing fonts (complete with auto-generated sample text). 🫠 npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…j074 That’s a great one, but it’s hard to top Mayeur npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman For the typography of Trump & Joe Gebbia’s National Design Studio websites (https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/115894308026701731), nothing screams “excellence” more than some artificially slanted fallback italics. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman The other day @nprofile…2q0l joked that font licenses should be priced according CEO salary and I can’t stop thinking about that. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman If you told me this poster was designed recently I wouldn’t bat an eyelid. But, nope: it was designed by Max Bill (and letterpress-printed) in 1931. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Notes from @nprofile…zut6 about designing a risograph-printed zine for @nprofile…0jjs on a Linux operating system with the Affinity app: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…suss npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…cm8h @nprofile…syrg Confession: Around that same time, I registered the canifont.com domain, with the dream being that there could one day be something like caniuse.com or caniemail.com to document support (or lack thereof) for various typographic functionality across different apps. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…cm8h I discussed something like this privately with @nprofile…syrg a few months ago and he started work on a table with notes about where the various name fields were relevant in real-world contexts. It’s tricky though because documenting it means you have to actually test all the overlaps of all the different scenarios in all the different apps, which sounds like absolute torture. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…vd7w @nprofile…x9kw That was in Safari on macOS Sequoia. I’m not 100% sure but I think it was before I updated to Safari 26, so presumably it was Safari 18.2. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…nqgz Late reply here, and I have no idea what issues you are running into, but maybe this recent thread may be of interest: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman In this interactive web demo, @nprofile…rf0a shows an alternate method for text justification, called “cogent” or “semi-justified” alignment, where each line is justified if possible within a range of spacing limits, but left-aligned otherwise: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman … 20 years after the bug report was submitted, here is the original test page for that @nprofile…ask2 text shaping issue finally(!) working as intended in the latest version of Safari. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Exactly 20 years ago – to the minute – this WebKit bug report was submitted for an issue where font features were broken across <span> elements and other inline box boundaries: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…yy2c @nprofile…mw4f @nprofile…dpf5 Yeah that’s basically what those third-party apps I mentioned will streamline for you, with a GUI and options to use fonts from a Dropbox folder etc. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman It’s so refreshing to be able to have conversations about different apps and services that can all be used to interact with Mastodon and the larger Fediverse, all with different pros and cons for different people with their own different preferences and priorities. And even better to then see the accounts for those apps and services chiming in with helpful, human responses. It all feels so wholesome and humane compared to the monolithic corporate platforms. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Today I learned @nprofile…mw4f allows you to pick custom-installed fonts for the interface of both their desktop and mobile apps. This has been possible for a while but I only learned about it working in the mobile app today. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mw4f @nprofile…t9uc @nprofile…jpdm @nprofile…4q39 @nprofile…c2vz Ah ha, I had been looking for font options under the “Appearance & Themes” settings of the iOS app and not “General”. Thank you once again for the info – the app keeps getting better! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…jpdm @nprofile…r3x6 @nprofile…4q39 @nprofile…mw4f … Note that there is a small but not-totally-obvious trick to making the one-time option available if you haven’t used Mona Classic recently: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…jpdm @nprofile…r3x6 @nprofile…4q39 @nprofile…mw4f Yeah, I’m not a fan of software subscriptions (would much rather pay occasionally for updates but still have access to previously-licensed versions without ongoing costs) so I immediately went for the one-time option. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…jpdm @nprofile…4q39 @nprofile…c2vz @nprofile…mw4f I believe the custom font options are only available in the desktop version of Mona, whereas Ice Cubes has it in both desktop and mobile versions. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mw4f @nprofile…4q39 Ah ha, wonderful! And I see it also works with a right-click in the desktop app. Thanks for the info. @nprofile…r3x6 will be happy to hear about this. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…r3x6 @nprofile…4q39 Yeah there are functions along the same lines in Mona (e.g. when you follow someone, you can pick what accounts to follow from) but it’d be cool to have that for boosts etc too. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…4q39 Yeah one of the things I like most about Mona is how seamless it feels to move between desktop and mobile devices. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…4q39 I’ve used and enjoyed Ice Cubes too (I especially like their option to use custom fonts) but at least last time I checked they didn’t have the feature to sync timeline position etc across devices the way Mona does. Maybe they do now though? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…24as I don’t use the columns feature so not as familiar with that. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…24as It’s worked great for me so far, without any issues. It even has a handy option to scroll back to a previous position in case you want to return to where you were before the iCloud position was restored. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Mona is my daily-driver Mastodon app on both desktop and mobile devices, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying using the beta of this new version. Highly recommended. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…7420 Haribo! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman … That page comes from ‘Blackletter: Type and National Identity’, with translation by Robin Kinross, edited by Peter Bain and @nprofile…ppt8, published by @nprofile…sgkf. It’s a great book if you can find a copy. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Nazi dipshits in 1941: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…5dvx What are the chances it was one of those clownish 3-wheel open-top tricycle-buggy things npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mr63 If you mean generally in the Roman style, the first thing that came to my mind is the inscriptions of author names that wrap the exterior of the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library. They are absolutely *stacked* with ligatures. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wgw9 When I saw your original message the other day saying to follow along on Instagram, my initial reaction was “welp, I’m not using Instagram so I guess I won’t be seeing that stuff then”. (And indeed, I only found out you mentioned me in one post because someone sent me a screenshot.) But I really wanted to see it all, so thank you for cross-posting! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman ❝But you can take solace in the fact that you aren’t alone. The world is filled with cowards who won’t cancel their account.❞ npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…ns49 @nprofile…ylnn @nprofile…ltjz @nprofile…mfqq @nprofile…re6k @nprofile…66gf Calling that auto-traced version “OK-ish” is … generous. Even the options from dafont are more useable. https://www.dafont.com/pinewood.font npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…4cu7 @nprofile…t9uc @nprofile…ylnn @nprofile…ltjz @nprofile…mfqq @nprofile…re6k @nprofile…66gf Incidentally, David MacMillan used the Rustic types to explain how the concept of type groupings has evolved over the centuries, and how – as Harry Carter also argued – using continuous axes of variation isn’t always ideal. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…4cu7 @nprofile…t9uc @nprofile…ylnn @nprofile…ltjz @nprofile…mfqq @nprofile…re6k @nprofile…66gf One day a true hero will emerge with a proper revival of Rustic No. 2, complete with a full range of size-specific variants. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…yy2c Other than the graffiti, that sign seems to be in basically the same condition as when I photographed it in 2018: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…8za8 Late reply here, but: Very likely these letters were made specifically for this sign (i.e. they weren’t part of a pre-fabricated alphabet set). I imagine the designer would have preferred to have most of that word connecting as a kind of cursive script, but getting and moving plastic sheets that large would have been much less practical. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…ylnn Late reply here, but: In case you missed it, there are some licensable log fonts in the “Related Typefaces” list on that @nprofile…ltjz page. Unfortunately everything is either 1) based on the same historic design, but not very good quality, or 2) better quality but not a direct revival. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…8fyv @nprofile…zw7u The exact elevator discussed there was the setting for this dispatch from @nprofile…4q39 during the @nprofile…waez festival: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…s8f2 Graphic design portfolio of an immortal being npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…24as My first thought is Matthew Carter. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…u0v7 … When specifying the short form dates for such items, I will often write something like “c.1924[?]” – with the question mark in brackets but not the date, to indicate the date is present but just not obviously the publication date. (As opposed to something like “[c.1924?]” – with the date and the question mark in brackets, for things where that date doesn’t actually appear anywhere.) npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…u0v7 It seems reasonable to estimate the publication date to be at least somewhere around the latest date from usage samples in a type specimen book. Real librarians would definitely have better insight than me though. (cc @nprofile…06lh @nprofile…y9zx) npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…vh6j When in doubt, use Davida. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman My typeface design students emailing me late on a Friday night asking philosophical questions about how to set the sidebearings and serif lengths of their control glyphs for spacing (HOno) gives me hope for the future. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wgw9 … On a related note: I was talking to Tobias @nprofile…3qsf last night about your article and trying to convince him to implement his own cryptic date-reference code for future type historians to ponder over. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wgw9 Re: Linotype & Machinery … npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…7420 @nprofile…l45t I’m not sure what’s worse: having those 20+ year old zombie articles shoe-horned into the current horrible MyFonts website, or having the information replaced by complete garbage, as is the case with the Stephenson Blake foundry page … npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…7420 This is likely zombie text from a VERY old version of MyFonts where foundry pages were far more detailed – more like reference pages. As I understand, much of the info for those pages originated in a type history database Mike Parker started in the early days of Bitstream. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…tk07 @nprofile…7420 @nprofile…t9uc @nprofile…qppg @nprofile…rurn @nprofile…wezf @nprofile…k4zy @nprofile…dh7d @nprofile…a0g6 @nprofile…j6dd This is the way. 🙇 npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Gonna tell my kids this was Matthew Carter npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…rum8 While there is often a desire to do clever things with the .notdef glyph, I would generally recommend against it. Showing unfamiliar things in a situation like glyph fallback that is already fairly unclear to most people just compounds the possibility for confusion. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…qppg @nprofile…426v @nprofile…6fq7 There’s a chance it was recorded, but if so it was never published. Maybe the @nprofile…r5h5 crew can confirm one way or the other. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…6fq7 @nprofile…qppg Incidentally, our talk about Zapf Dingbats included “❣︎” in its official title, and we started the presentation by explaining how that Unicode character got stripped from the listing on TypeCon’s published schedule. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…skx5 @nprofile…autn I have not, but I have been assuming it’s just a matter of time before Apple does something like that. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…skx5 @nprofile…autn While I was waiting for the battery to be replaced in the 13 mini, I fired up my old iPhone SE (1st-generation), and it made me long for having Touch ID on my phone again. I miss not having to allow Face ID to fail multiple times while I’m lying in bed before I can input my passcode. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mr63 @nprofile…t9uc Everyone is different but as a “small fish” I can attest that it’s possible to survive without Instagram. Neither @nprofile…dpf5 as a company nor I personally are active on Instagram but I still manage to survive and pay my bills. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…autn @nprofile…skx5 Nodding along while typing this on my iPhone 13 mini that similarly just got a new battery the other day. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…k4zy 🙌🎉👏 npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mtme @nprofile…vk0r @nprofile…m8r8 Interesting! And it utilized font data without the blessing of the font publishers? Now I’m curious to read more about that. I’m guessing there would have been legal issues with that. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…ukmn @nprofile…vk0r @nprofile…m8r8 Interesting! Do you think it was a good decision to drop the Code even though ATypI never really became that kind of standards organization in the end anyway? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…mtme @nprofile…vk0r @nprofile…m8r8 Oh, I don’t think I know this story! Is that something specifically related to Bitstream and/or ATypI? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…vk0r @nprofile…m8r8 … To fully understand ATypI’s old Moral Code, and why someone as respected as Matthew Carter would be copying typefaces without the blessing of the original publishers, it helps to understand the landscape of the type industry in the early 1980s. It’s a long story. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman Some interesting backstory on @nprofile…vk0r’s “Moral Code”, part of @nprofile…m8r8’s ongoing ATypI research: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…hnjp @nprofile…j95p Instantly subscribed! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…yy2c This isn’t really related to the book, but: Something I’m always interested to hear other designers thoughts on is how / where they draw the line for organizations that they would just never agree to do business with, no matter what the money or other factors are. Or, if they do decide to work for organizations they find problematic, how they square it up mentally / morally / financially. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…yu27 You can now follow RSS feeds with @nprofile…gmnz! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…8d9y This probably isn’t particularly helpful, but the Font Production class @nprofile…4u37 has been teaching for @nprofile…ahnd is the best option I can think of for learning this kind of stuff in a cohesive format: npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…5e8y For a while, around 2015 or so, it was actually an offshoot location of Grimaldi’s! I would go there occasionally because my office at the time wasn’t too far away. Haven’t been to the new place that took over the space yet though. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…3c8g @nprofile…nack +1! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…wdfz Is this using your fonts? I’ll try to make it over there in the next few days. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…musy Amazing, thank you! npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…musy Love this. Were the seasonally-themed fleurons part of the font? npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…l5kr On the contrary, I described it as herding because most people who went all in on Bluesky seem to have done so because they were following a crowd, *despite* having a clear view of the potentially problematic corporate structure. npub1xjw6jg8d6nakfrpr78h5kxzh4j2282v2pgx0u2xk4kmmtw5y8k3qcwun5u Nick Sherman @nprofile…l5kr In case the toot-length summaries and screenshots you may have found still leave you confused:
