Very funny that @nprofile1q... thought we were Dutch. I humbly accept the typographic honor. Others struggled to understand how many new typefaces were released (what is it even to release a typeface?), or focused on limited character sets (which are very intentional choices).

I think this new website breaks a lot of expections about what a type foundry is, and does, and IMO there are really no design critique platforms out there equipped to dive deep enough into it to convey what is going on. In the attention economy, it will remain just a tiny blip. This is what we are expected to serve the audience: bite sized nuggets.

New release: The Estimated typeface derives from a limited set of alphanumeric characters that accompanied the estimated sign (℮) at its introduction by the European Economic Community in July 1971.

While the symbol entered everyday use, the strange ornamental sans serif fell into obscurity. The uncredited schematic drawings approach blackletter capitals morphologically, but their naive execution leaves an uncanny impression. The numerals are simpler constructions, with rounded terminals drawing from industrial draft lettering. Alongside the obtuse ℮-mark and the alien-styled hexagon, the typeface appears less like the domain of gray bureaucracy, and more like the decals of an experimental Skunkworks project.

https://monokrom.no/typefaces/estimated

The new Monokrom website contains a mountain of essays, articles, biographies, visual references, characters, typefaces, and data - tons of it. Everything comes with notes and a reference list. Each entry has a byline with publication date and date for the last update, allowing others to reference. There are bound to be errors and misunderstandings, but the sources are open and easily checked. All of it is produced without artificial intelligence.

Really happy to finally get this out. My interview with (perhaps) the last counter-cultural graphic designer, @nprofile1q...
https://monokrom.no/essays/on-resisting-graphic-design

Something new: https://monokrom.no

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?

Inshallah, Cool S is coming in the fall. With contributions from the notebook pages of a bonafide 6th grader.

Picked up some language materiale from a church sale: The nugget among them is the Lingala New Testament (printed in Kinhasa, then Léopoldville, 1965), which specifically cites the author as “Our Lord Jesus Christ”.

What is the story behind Unicode encoding upper and lowercase characters as parallell hex ranges in groups of 32?

A (U+0041) > a (U+0061)
B (U+0042) > b (U+0062)
…

And: Are there any benefits to following this logic when planning your own PUA encoding?