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1y

Typography: it matters!

#weird #signs #humor #humour #typography #graphicdesign #kerning

a sign that says Fart Food, but is supposed to say art food. (Fusing visual art & culinary creativity)

14d

One of my professors at the Leiden summer school told me something interesting. Historically, many linguistics textbooks and papers have been physically published in Leiden, often featuring ancient or minority writing systems. Before the digital typesetting era, typesetters in Leiden were *contractually obligated* not to learn any rare writing systems or languages, and to work purely by verifying that the typeset text looked visually identical to the submitted manuscript. This is because when you *can* read it, you're inevitably going to transcribe what you think you read, not what you actually read, which is a big problem when the entire point is to showcase exactly what ancient people did write and not what we think they should have written

#linguistics #typography #typesetting

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327d

I haven’t used Times New Roman since 2008 but I still see it pop up in the wild every now and again. So I made an explainer video about why you should stop using it and what you should use instead. #TypographyNerd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmZRr4GZcIY

#typography #fonts #TimesNewRoman

Screenshot of a graphic showing the specific design differences between fonts PT Astra Serif and Times New Roman.

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208d

Digging into the "atypography" art movement, really cool so far. Example of "Epetri" atypographic font - it reads "dubtechno."

More stuff + their manual at https://www.atypography.com/

#art #typography

An arrangement of atypographic characters consisting of minimalist black rectangles and blocks that extend down vertically in a tapestry or totemic fashion on a white background.

For instance, the top character, "d," is 5 black vertical monoliths, with the very last rectangle slightly taller than the rest.

Read top to bottom, the script spells "dubtechno."

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62d

if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER

#accessibility #ux #typography

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127d

I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.

#AI #AICrap #EmDashes #typography #writing #FuckAI