Archive for category: Typography

2,104 sentences that begin with numbers    (2018.05.01)

For the love of God, yes, you can begin a sentence with a number

Font Detective    (2018.04.28)

Tom Phinney is the Font Detective

Another triumph of conservative design    (2018.01.11)

Vox Day (no relation) knows nothing about legible typography, as his new comic Quantum Mortis proves. (Even the title is impossible to get right)

Books of the year 2017    (2017.12.29)

Billy Hayes’ Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me; Douglas Thomas’ Never Use Futura

Vision first, texture second    (2017.08.18)

Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now

Runic “type” as pagan dogwhistle    (2016.12.30)

Is runic “type” a dogwhistle just for pagans, or for white-supremacist pagans? (The former)

TTC TUG    (2016.11.07)

I gave a presentation on TTC typography to a group of aging computer scientists and mathematical typesetters. Then I toured them through the subway. And they loved me

This Week in Type: I Left My 💝 in ‑apple-system-body    (2016.10.10)

(2016.10.10; posted 2017.06.27)

This Week in Type: (((BROTHERS)))    (2016.06.09)

(2016.06.09; posted 2017.06.27)