My week is looking up. And – I can say this as a Maritimer – now so is all y’all’s.
here's a mini website and incredibly boring essay about our typeface no thx
“This wall” (not White Pass’s) “is reading my mind.”
You’ve heard of 88 (⑧⑧? ⓼⓼? ❽❽?) and 14. New! Neo-Nazi parentheses (“echo”).
Are you as bored with reading about Avant Garde as I thought I was? (“Mother [HEROIC EMBRACING AMPERSAND] Child.”) Hi-res sidescrolling scans made it interesting again, and recalled Leonidas’ dictum that one must always inspect the original object (even if here one is not).
Unsympathetic Michael Everson dukes it out over Georgian majuscules (mtravuli). Days later, they show up on Wheel of Fortune.
(Somebody here write “mtravuli” in Georgian for me, please. I looked and I can’t find it.)
Журнальная рубленая, the poor man’s Futura. I don’t see anybody trying to transgender this one.
“ОУР ЦЛУЕ ИС WРИТТЕН ИН ТХИС АЛПХАБЕТ.” Meanwhile, Jeopardy type actually looks better on Black Jeopardy.
“[S]ome Tweets [sic] suggest that Tarek Atrissi Design agency [sic] is the designer of the new Arabic font being used on Apple.com[/ae‑ar/],” declares credulous Apple blog without bothering to use Web Inspector to identify the typeface used as Gulf (which in turn identifies as five genders weights).
For the love of G‑d don’t ax Adam Curtis about fonts.
Trump Mediæval(l)ed. Ax me sometime about how I schooled the highly receptive late artiste Félix González-Torres about the fake italic Trump on his stacks.
Such “LTypI,” an acronym you couldn’t even typeset behind the Iron Drapery of Bringhurstian party ideology, is derided as unimaginative, including by one great mind. I shatter consensus. In point of fact Ell Type Eye never gets better than with Brothers.
I used to have a lousy photo of George Howe Colt’s Brothers. I could easily borrow that (audio)book from the library and take another couple of lousy photos. But I would direct your attention to a phenomenon that 88ers would seek to eradicate from the earth: Gay rugby.
Every team consists of gay males trying to be men and seemingly every team has an awesome name. (Spot the name in Occitan [mtravuli?].) One of the Top 3 feared gay ruggerses, Muddy York here in Toronto, just had personalized jerseys produced. Typeset, obviously, in Brothers.
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Because that's what Georgian youth will actually start doing –in emulation of Latin, but also because it's functional– the moment you give them two cases (as opposed to [just] shouting). The elephant in the room here –persistently, although perhaps also deftly, ignored by the proponents of adding an uppercase to Georgian encoding– is that Georgian schools don't teach casing, and will not at all appreciate being "hacked". Make some khachapouri and watch the fireworks.
On #10: Oh. Em. Gee. And I rarely say that. They even went with straight letterwise transliteration (plus reversion when missing) without bothering with Ф and such.
On #11: Emoji are not worth the pixels they're rendered on.
On #12: Gulf is far more progressive than Myriad (its Latin companion chez Apple) hence not a harmonious match.
I know I’m particularly sensitive to the topic as genderqueer/gender-nonconforming myself, but at least it’s placed in a reflective frame. I think I prefer that to another fifty pieces of churnalism on ‘male vs. female fonts’.
To me gender actually makes more sense that those boxes; because it's not a box, it's an axis, which I believe is the key to mapping typefaces.
Perhaps I wanted portmanteau, "a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog)"? (Merriam-Webster)