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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2025-01-28 at 03:46

I want to thank everybody who posts gut shots of their broken Risograph machines because it keeps me from buying one.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2025-01-25 at 00:51

Does anyone have a photo of a HUGE Linotype matrix? I’ve seen hundreds of photos of text size matrices but I want to know what 132 point Scotch Initials look like.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2025-01-11 at 21:31

I just got a book in the mail that is set entirely in Arial Bold, condensed about 20%. In the trash it goes.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2025-01-08 at 00:17

I finally broke down and ordered an Aeron. Not because they’ve always been cool to own. Not because I like the looks (they’re hideous). I’m just old and my joints hurt and I need an orthopedic seat.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2025-01-07 at 17:42

The purpose of community notes isn’t to call out lies or bad actors. It’s to get people to sit around all day adding notes to stuff they disagree with, occasionally clicking an ad they would have not seen if they were doing something productive.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-12-30 at 01:02

Who else sees a cool t-shirt in a store but doesn’t buy it because the text is in Arial, the designer used straight quotes, or the designer used a left single quote instead of an apostrophe?

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-12-02 at 18:34

Did any of the type houses ever print a specimen in non-photo blue so designers couldn’t photocopy the pages and paste up the type instead of paying for it?

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-11-18 at 19:54

”Remember how we killed our own font management software after years of failing to develop it?”

“Yeah. Why?”

”What if we could buy ANOTHER ONE?”

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-11-11 at 23:22

My office mate is terribly passive aggressive.I kept scolding her for baying at me—which she does at approximately the volume of the siren on a fire engine—so now she comes into my office, lays down behind me, and breathes heavily through her nose until dinner time.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-10-30 at 23:47

I can’t decide which recent Apple project is the least compelling, the Vision Pro or Apple Intelligence.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-10-26 at 21:24

The Endangered Alphabets Calligraphy book project has 69 hours to go on Kickstarter. Tim needs to raise around $5,000 to make it happen. There isn’t a book like this, it will be a great resource for designers and researchers, so please help make it happen.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy/

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-10-05 at 21:14

I love it when I look something up, every article is AI generated, and the AIs hallucinated different answers. Put the entire AI industry behind bars before it’s impossible to find reliable information that wasn’t written prior to 2015.

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Written by Dunwich Type Founders on 2024-08-15 at 23:26

Sometimes even the stone carvers got kerning wrong.

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