@litherland
Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.
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Recent Notes
Never *the* right way, always *a* right way.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9lwykq3gy4820jazz2t2qgf2w6u2h02uhw2meumyxqehn6svdstq3vnr8a I mean, I overuse grots in my work, but there are just so many beautiful ones! Between...
@nprofile1q... I would argue that Action Grot’s main historicizing gesture lies in its name: grotesque. And even then, aside from a squat binocular g, it doesn’t necessarily manifest many of the traits we have come to associate with grotesques, like smallish apertures and inward-pointing terminals. What it does share with grotesques imho is a certain honesty, almost an awkwardness.
I was catching up on nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqurzme6hpzan9k8cjp5rvukgx8ywyz8atjavyst2ljc628p0mm75snfuvqd’s notes for his recent Action Grotesque and marveling at the 5p...
@nprofile1q... I was just thinking earlier today that I would love to see what you would do with Action Grot 💭
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“AG is a single optical size, but a really good one.”
https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/news-ltr-no22-a-new-typeface-a-new-site/
https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/news-ltr-no22-a-new-typeface-a-new-site/
I so appreciate DJR’s honesty here; this is extremely relatable:
“I haven’t been on top of my game this month. I know I had mentioned the italics I was working on for Lithographer Text, but I couldn’t bring myself to go through the focus-demanding, detail-oriented work of finishing them. I will send those fonts to you someday, but today is not that day.
“Instead, I desperately needed a reset. I wanted to start something new, where I could lower the stakes, move fast, and have fun.”
I’m a fan of this “sliced” genre (e.g., Novarese’s Stop), and of abstraction and experimentation in general, and Megawarp is indeed a lot of fun.
https://djr.com/notes/megawarp-font-of-the-month
“I haven’t been on top of my game this month. I know I had mentioned the italics I was working on for Lithographer Text, but I couldn’t bring myself to go through the focus-demanding, detail-oriented work of finishing them. I will send those fonts to you someday, but today is not that day.
“Instead, I desperately needed a reset. I wanted to start something new, where I could lower the stakes, move fast, and have fun.”
I’m a fan of this “sliced” genre (e.g., Novarese’s Stop), and of abstraction and experimentation in general, and Megawarp is indeed a lot of fun.
https://djr.com/notes/megawarp-font-of-the-month
New typeface, new website—it’s a big day for Erik @nprofile1q...
Huge gongratulations 🎉
Action Grotesque https://commercialtype.com/catalog/action_grotesque
Erik’s brand-new site, where you can see and read all about AG https://letterror.com/
Essay by Paul https://commercialtype.com/about/collections/action_grotesque
Newsletter that went out earlier today https://commercialtype.com/newsletters/122
Huge gongratulations 🎉
Action Grotesque https://commercialtype.com/catalog/action_grotesque
Erik’s brand-new site, where you can see and read all about AG https://letterror.com/
Essay by Paul https://commercialtype.com/about/collections/action_grotesque
Newsletter that went out earlier today https://commercialtype.com/newsletters/122
Now that variable fonts are no longer new(s), it’s fascinating to reread this article about Twin, from 2003 https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/is-it-about-to-rain-check-the-typeface.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.bqnu._LmRwwO4pyWA&smid=url-share
OH “a serif workhouse font” 🤔
“The typeface was commissioned by GQ in 2001, after asking Monotype to create a sans-serif font…”
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https://patch.com/massachusetts/woburn/new-look-launched-historic-woburn-type-setting-business
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https://patch.com/massachusetts/woburn/new-look-launched-historic-woburn-type-setting-business
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