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Dan Reynolds

@typeoff.bsky.social

Type historian and copywriter. Sometimes a designer, too. I live in Wuppertal and work in the book studies program down in Mainz. www.typeoff.de

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Fontstand@fontstand.com · 4w ago

TYPA has been building a database of its wood and metal type collection. This could help digital type designers today, but they’re using the digital data to make type in physical formats, too. Read Paweł Schulz’s article about what has been going on here: fontstand.com/news/essays/...

A screenshot showing the first thing visitors see when entering the Constellations database. It is a full list of the font families contained in it. The image shows the first six of them: Admiral, Aktsidents Grotesk, Luksus, Appell, Arabella, and Ariston. Screenshot from Robofont showing a .UFO file with photographs of metal type sorts from Bogatör Bold in 48 pt.Close-up photograph showing a metal-type ampersand sort, with ruler units for measurement on the left and bottom sides. The ampersand is from the Tiemann typeface in the 48 pt. size.Screenshot from the public preview of the database website (constellations.typa.ee). It shows the names of 12 typefaces in the database.
Dan Reynolds@typeoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Perhaps the first edition of the Declaration of Independence, according to Gettysburg College, was printed in German! gettdigital.gettysburg.edu/Documents/De...

Declaration of Independence, translated into German, published in Philadelphia, 1776 - GettDigital: Special Collections and College Archives Digital Collections

Declaration of Independence, translated into German, published in Philadelphia, 1776, Declaration of Independence for the United States of America, translated into in German, and printed in Philadelph...

gettdigital.gettysburg.edu

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I don't need a rationale / to sing the internationale youtu.be/vvCGZEqk8Ak?...

They Might Be Giants - The Communists Have the Music (Official Video)

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Novelty Cistern@noveltycistern.bsky.social · 11mo ago

five minutes after the polls closed I saw those first results and I swear to God a muscle in my back that i didn't even know was clenched released. all we need for my body to fully relax is complete international socialism

Dan Reynolds@typeoff.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This book is out now! Over 196-pages, it dives into the technological differences between the systems of movable type pioneered in East Asia and Western Europe. It is probably the most challenging thing I have designed so far but if it sells well, I might get to do it all over again in English 😉

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Friedemann Karig@friedemannkarig.bsky.social · 2y ago

„Migration“ als politische wie mediale Fixierung ist spätmoderner Aberglaube, die Angst vor dem bösen Blick der anderen. Als könne das Land ein paar Nadeln in die Schwächsten stecken und dadurch allen realen Flüchen entkommen. Zwanghaft gewordenes magisches Denken, so regressiv wie rassistisch.