A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect
Your outie knows the
difference between an en dash and an em dash and uses them appropriately.
Corita Kent, handle with care, 1967
& Chevrolet newspaper ad, 1966
We’re celebrating Corita Art Center’s new home by sharing some of our latest Corita arrivals. This piece borrowed an advertising catchphrase and gave it a new (religious) meaning by enlarging and distorting the headline for a screen print.
#Fediverse, I need your help again!
tl; dr: I need a font maker software!
I'd like to convert my handwriting into a font for my research output, as I'd like to maintain my personal handwriting in my sketchnotes but I'd like the written notes to be text.
I'm already very familiar with vector graphics and lettering but never made a font so would love an open source/free font design software to start.
@jeffjarvis
Of course, there's a book about it, by Ruth Finnegan (“Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation”). I couldn't find an answer to my question, although page 94 comes close. The book is Open Access, so we can all add it to our schlarly collection!
https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0012.pdf
#typography
Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016), catalog cover for the Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Inc. publishing company, 1965.
Lustig Cohen’s design career began quite unexpectedly. In 1955 her husband, Alvin Lustig, passed away. At 28 years old and with no formal training, she took on the clients and projects that her husband left behind. She soon established herself as one of the leading designers of the 1950s.
More: https://letterformarchive.org/news/this-just-in-elaine-lustig-cohen/?utm_source=Mastodon
Guy at work: What are these paper sizes like A4, what does that mean? How does that work?
Me (visibly excited): Buckle in, buddy, you’re in for a ride.
Gnarls Barkley Crazy.
G.
Fantasy cover for "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley. Group composed of singer and rapper Cee Lo Green and producer and DJ Danger Mouse.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/gnarls-barkley-crazy-james-mccormack.html ]
#crazy #gnarlsbarkley #fantasy #cover #alternative #blackandwhite #sunglasses #typography #stylized #faces, #spikyhair #baldhead #creative #design #buyintoart #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #MastoDaoine
@Sibshops personally i was particularly taken by the #typography. like WTF is going on with the "I" in "PROUID"?
I love that one of my go-to typefaces, Alegreya, designed by Argentinian typeface foundry Huerta Tipográfica and distributed as open source fonts, features three different and very expressive #ampersands across its variants.
What do you want to learn about typography on the web? What CSS have you been meaning to learn? What’s still frustrating or confusing — that you wish you could do or polish more easily?
"In a city that never sleeps, Gorton wasn’t allowed to sleep, either. Even in the richest and most glamorous neighborhoods of Manhattan, the font would be there, doing the devil’s work without complaining. Gorton made Gotham feel bougie; American Typewriter touristy."
@mwichary on #typography: https://longreads.com/2025/03/04/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
Art opening in Nancy at My Monkey Gallery
#art #design #typography
https://apothecaryshed.com/2025/02/26/norm-at-my-monkey-gallery-nancy-france/
The talk that I gave about Letter Spirit (my 30 year old thesis project) in France last week has been posted as a video. #AI #ML #cogsci #hofstadter #creativity #design #typography
ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four “I”s
During this talk I will touch on Intuition, Insight, and Inspiration. First I will set the context by introducing the Letter Spirit project and its microdomain — work I published exactly 30 years ago as a Ph.D. student of Doug Hofstadter’s. I will spend some time discussing the role of roles (and other mental structures) in creativity and human perception. Then I’ll take a quick run through the current state of “AI” (really ML) so we get a feeling of how LLMs actually work. We will talk about WHAT MACHINES and relate them to human cognition. Finally, just as I get around to intuition, insight, and inspiration, I will run out of time.
I really like the proposed asterism symbol, ⁂, U+2042 to represent the Fediverse. “In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info
I might just add it to my fonts, (and perhaps boot the bitcoin, ₿, U+20BF, while I'm at it) Now to see whether I like hexacles (the bestagons) or pentacles..
#charactersetpolitics #fediverse #fonts #typography
Our In-Process blog is out! Featuring:
- Update on NVDA 2025.1
- Planning for CSUN
- What's on the web
- Reading paragraphs in Braille
And bonus history of the Pilcrow! (Ok I was interested)
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-27th-february-2025/
no warmth in your voice
utterings as cold as snow
they are only words
#mastoprompt - warm
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow
ART Titled "Only Words"
@daringfireball Thanks, @mwichary, for putting a name—and great photography—to a font that’s everywhere! I found Gorton embossed on a (not that old) plastic measuring cup in my kitchen.
Then I looked at Chernobyl photos—sure enough, Gorton digits galore! (And who-knows-what Cyrillic lettering.)
So I was inspired to make a Gorton web clock with soviet-era reactor control styling (I’ll reply with how to read it):
