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Re: What hobbies or activities do you do for a break?
Urban hikes or just a walk around the neighborhood, where I try to find liquid trees* has helped me focus (mentally and visually) on other things. Idefinitely feel a huge shift off my chest when I wa…5 -
Re: Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)
I very carefully wrote "travelling to America" rather than "travelling in America". I don't have a problem with the vast majority of the third of a billion humans - just the ones …5 -
Pencil Modifier — plugin for Glyphs
Pencil Modifier A plugin for Glyphs that enhances the Pencil tool with three features: redrawing existing paths, drawing closed paths, and drawing simplified paths. Page on GitHub Features Redraw Pat…14 -
Re: New post-Canva acquisition Affinity
Although you can't do a separate Adobe Fonts subscription, you can just subscribe to Adobe InCopy ... which includes Adobe Fonts. It is only $5/month. Could use it as an add-on to Affinity, I suppose!5 -
Re: New post-Canva acquisition Affinity
A lot of type foundries have distribution agreements with Adobe for their fonts to be included in the Adobe Fonts library. When a user buys an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, access to the Adobe F…6 -
Re: What hobbies or activities do you do for a break?
Not a hobby per se, but I’ve recently been doing genealogy stuff in the evenings and weekends, which is a fascinating and occasionally heartbreaking glimpse into lost worlds of family life, work, soc…5 -
Re: Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)
I don't feel safe travelling to America at this point in history, and I also want to express solidarity with those designers from around the world for whom it would be objectively unsafe to do so. (S…15 -
Re: New post-Canva acquisition Affinity
Unfortunately it’s still not working, same as in v1. I’ve reached out to them repeatedly, RTL support doesn’t seem to be on their priority list.5 -
Re: Help Typedrawers find a new home
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/ may be the reason not to do so14 -
Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn
Opening: Friday November 14 at 7:00 pm Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts 50 Sussex Drive, Ottawa November 17—28, 10 am to 4 pm (Closed Sundays) This is an exhibition of my work, at an art gallery in…9
