I’ve been impatiently waiting for @nprofile1q... to launch his new foundry/website so I could immediately get a license for his Haffner type family. It’s my favorite text typeface of the 21st century so far and I’ve been pestering him to release it for the past decade or so.

I’m also looking forward to seeing more of the Parling type family (which is working great on the new website, designed by @nprofile1q...) and reading more of Kent’s thoughts in his new Journal (available via RSS).

Congrats Kent!

https://typo.social/@kentlew/117513059953896190

Apropos of everything, I’m finally being more proactive about making regular local backups of my data from websites/services I trust but would still be devastated to unexpectedly have lost forever, e.g. Flickr, Mastodon, Letterboxd, LibraryThing, Discogs, last.fm, my web hosting companies, etc.

What a stupid timeline we live in where this seems like an urgent necessity.

Today I learned about “suffragette coins”, where suffragist activists used letter punches to stamp “VOTES FOR WOMEN” into the faces of kings on British money.

https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/2016_BNJ_86_10_Stamped.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_penny

It’s a bummer that the whole concept of “social media” now has such a bad reputation. I see people talking about how horrible social media is, but really the problem is corporate, manipulative, ad-centric, hyper-capitalist, surveillance-tech, engagement-at-any-cost forms of social media.

Social media can still be wonderful when its underlying structures aren’t horrible. But thanks to all the major corporate platforms, many people just lump all social media together under one horrible umbrella.

Launching the Discord app feels like walking into a casino.

$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.

(This is a revival of an identical challenge I posed back in 2013 that still remains unsolved.)

@nprofile1q... A gem spotted for you at the NY International Antiquarian Book Fair over the weekend.