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This week in type: ä 4 SVG
As sure as there’s an X in Christmas, you the typophile, or you the typedrawer, will want a Neue Haas Unica mug bearing the letter ä. Colour SVG fonts in Firefox will light up your “holiday tree,” or…8 -
This week in type: ★, Cherokee, and emoji in the most unexpected places
Jonathan Barnbrook, the most active political graphic designer, discusses the origin of the ★ glyphs that comprise the title of the new David Bowie album. Barnbrook talks about realeasing the glyph f…9 -
This week in type: Pixelated System font, rejecting a manuscript over type choices, and SOTA videos
Medium.com discovers that a “system” font is actually a pixel font called System. “And suddenly I realized I know this font. It was a font I saw on my first PC. It was 1990. That PC was running Windo…5 -
‘Private Eye’ on de facto closure of St. Bride Library
Here (excerpted) is what Private Eye reports about the planned closure of the St. Bride Library, which, oddly, seems not to have been discussed on this esteemed forum. * “The foundation’s library... …1 -
Re: Monospace f-ligatures
Monospaced ligatures do in fact look ridiculous (as ligatures also do in URLs).1
