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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/117493072861287769 Something just too incredibly cute not to quote into everyone’s timeline. Friends, let’s all start “rafting” a bit more. 🙂

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  Well, friends, now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve launched my own foundry and website. https://kltype.com Also: announcing the release of Haffner Text, a contemporary oldstyle with heft and substance, originally designed for TIME magazine and now available for retail license. And introducing Parling — a sort of Benton-meets-Verdana homage to quintessentially American sans-serifs, an industrious gothic with an affable personality. Boosts appreciated, especially those with reach beyond my tiny or...

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  Despite my many many misgivings about the current political climate and the policies & actions of our current government, I still think this is a remarkable country, with a remarkable history, filled with many remarkably good people doing remarkable things. Happy Birthday, America.

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  I swear I spend way too much damn time deep in diminishing-returns territory. I *know* this. And yet… I just can’t seem to be able to help myself. 🫤

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  *The Martian Chronicles* is the book that prompted me to start designing an homage to Electra (which remains incomplete still, but may someday get finished). The penultimate “chronicle” takes place on today’s date. (Thanks to https://beige.party/@Troggie/117036835050269682)

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  In particular, I was thinking of George W. Jones’s Georgian — a transitional face in the manner of Wilson, Fry, et al. It’s almost completely unknown over here. And I don’t think it ever saw much use even in Great Britain, despite being favorably reviewed early on by typographers on both sides. Certainly not the widespread adoption of his better-known types — Granjon and Linotype Baskerville. Jones’s Estienne is also less known and somewhat overlooked; but at least it got picked up and offered...

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  I was inspired by several posts today to go dig out this old t-shirt that was created for a Font Bureau event that happened to fall on May 1st (2009). It was Font Bureau’s 20th anniversary and Cyrus Highsmith made this characteristic graphic for the event, with a nod to the date. The t-shirt is too discolored and threadbare to wear anymore, but I still keep it bunched up in my drawer. Classic Highsmith. (Sorry for all the wrinkles. Couldn’t find our iron.)

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  @letterror Nice! 🤩 Yeah, I can’t imagine they would aim for overshooting the bare requirement. Must have been costly to fabricate. Would’ve been funny, though, if they got to the end and were, like, “How come we have this extra Л over here? Did anybody proofread this?” 😅

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  @dyana Devanāgarī is correct (but spacing/fitting is a little odd, to my eye 🤷‍♂️).

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  I spent the morning picking up litter for our town’s annual roadside cleanup day. It’s frustrating to see how much crap people choose to throw out of their cars. Alcohol containers and fast-food packaging mostly (no surprise), but also tires, construction waste, etc. Our road is one of two in our rural town that gets a lot of traffic with people just passing through. A long stretch of it is unpopulated & wooded, bounded by state forest and watershed property. I guess people see it as so...