Part of my series of terms of venery (collective nouns for animals) I always liked “a nest of rabbits” because it makes me think of eggs 
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/106790055
#linocut #termsOfVenery
#printmaking #rabbit #Easter #nest #typography #bunnies #MastoArt
Did you collect all the Emigre specimens over the last four decades? Now you can get 40 booklets in a single 1,264-page volume. “Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024” is available now in our shop, and wherever good books are sold. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/emigre-fonts/?utm_source=Mastodon
Musiclife Regular is a handwritten script font created by Qwrtype Foundry. It was released on March 11, 2024.
https://www.fontfreedownloads.com/en/musiclife-regular.font-free-download
#MusiclifeRegular #MusiclifeRegular #MusiclifeRegular #art #creative #graphicdesign #wallpaper #fonts #typography #calligraphy #design #webdesign #handwritten #calligraphic #type #typeface #lettering #handlettering #weddingfonts #ttf #otf
We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary by filling our jewel-box gallery with 100 staff picks. Get a glimpse into every corner of the Archive through the lens of the 10 teams who steward the collection. Traverse centuries of graphic art, from a cuneiform tablet to contemporary artists’ books, from icons of modernist typography to everyday ephemera. Never before has such a wide range of the Archive’s collection been viewable in one room. https://letterformarchive.org/news/10-by-10-for-10-exhibition/?utm_source=Mastodon
Designing a uniwidth typeface family is such a challenge, I don’t think I’ll take on another one anytime soon 
Happy birthday @letterformarchive — 10 this year 
For those able to get to San Francisco between now and October, be sure to visit this special exhibition:
https://letterformarchive.org/news/10-by-10-for-10-exhibition/
The exhibition is accompanied by an events programme that unfolds across the year, starting with archive founder Rob Saunders and @stewf discussing the archive's origins and its approaches to collecting objects for public access:
@raganwald I originally learned about typography from TeX / LaTeX.
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.
Combining the niches of #engineering and #typography Atomic Frontier investigates which typeface's capital "I" makes the best I-beam?
One of the Web’s greatest typographical achievements is the elimination of the indented paragraph.
Even the APA’s webpage for explaining paragraph indentation in APA Style does not use APA Style paragraph indentation.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/paragraph-format?ref=activitypub
2-sessions workshop online
Introduction to Cyrillic type design
with Maria Doreuli @contrastfoundry & @krista
This workshop will introduce you to the history, evolution, and modern landscape of the Cyrillic script while helping you understand its structure and its influence on typography. You will learn to recognize common mistakes and how to avoid them.
More info & tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/
Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—and Finally, Designers Are Waking Up, by @webdesignerdepot.bsky.social:
Not quite sure if this is fully aligned to my corner of #mastodon, but it's so delightfully nerdy that I had to share.
These two dive into many terms for printing and #typography that are still with us today.
If you're into #etymology, #words, #graphicdesign, or #webdesign, then you may enjoy.
Big update to PragmataPro just came out, including a new variable font version: https://fsd.it/2025/03/20/pragmatapro-0-9-released/
Zephyr
Custom font in the making once again. I thought I'll post this and regret later as the font will likely be totally different.
The Revolutionary zeal that permeated among the French was so strong, that the goal of spreading their beliefs across Europe felt to them like an all-or-nothing situation.
By its nature, the total war against the established order meant that either they win everything, or lose everything. Nonetheless, the 1815 settlement, though benefited the old order the most, was not a complete defeat for the Revolution either.
This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a 
#linocut #printmaking #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histsci #MastoArt
