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This week's pointless sketch thing. Presented without context. More at okaytype.com/sketches

Yea, that G is the star of the show. Like a nonplussed beluga whale.

Are there type/lettering/design people here who want to see more dumb work?

Chicago wind gauge

Font nerds should head over to the type Mastodon when they finally get sick of this place. typo.social/@Okay

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Love that place

Chicago’s newest snow plow name ‘Abolish ICE,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson says Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States YouTube video by Olympics

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

The real MVP is us. For having to endure such a boring football game with so many terrible AI ads.

Wood type in a composing stick that says ‘WORD’ with a Chicago star. Image is reversed to be easier to read.

Community is everything and printers know that well. So @blountben.bsky.social & I are leading the charge to host WayzgooseORD (WORD) here in Chicago. It’s a new gathering for the print community to share their shops, knowledge and friendship. More info: wayzgooseord.com

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed.

Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

Glad I don’t have to pretend to care about football anymore.

I initially read this on my phone. Do yourself a favor and open it on desktop to get the full impact of these gorgeous typefaces.

Okay Type ✶ Blog — Okay Type’s favorite typefaces of 2025 A typeface design studio in Chicago.

I wrote a little about my favorite typefaces from 2025. okaytype.com/blog/okay-ty...

Oo, I drew something for this project too. Went a little crazy durning lock down.

Multi-colored letterpress poster that says ‘vaccinations save lives’ with addition text saying ‘for you’ ‘for your family’ ‘for your neighborhood’. Cityscape in the background with floral ornaments to look like gardens and small neighborhood buildings in the front.

Throwback to the city commissioning art to promote vaccines in 2021. 7-color print, all metal & wood type. More info & process here: www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

A specimen of printing types : Joseph Fry and Sons : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive From the type specimen collections of St Bride Library.Part of our Celebrating 125 Years of St Bride Library project, this digitisation was kindly sponsored...

archive.org/details/2026...

Fry?

The Best of Neon:
Anthropomorphic Beer greets the new year.

see/saw’s top 54 punk + rock'n'roll records of 2025: a zine Order your copy of this physical newsprint broadsheet with art from David Alvarado and writing from the best.

thrilled to announce see/saw's top 54 punk + rock'n'roll records of 2025: a physical newsprint broadsheet.

not publishing online! just got these on the doorstep today and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. order a copy! happy holidays!

The pretty sick of the President Goatse timeline.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Monotype once again giving our whole industry a bad name

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor YouTube video by Simone Bolognesi

Oh snap, it’s The John Spencer Blues Explosion *with Beck* doing a Run DMC send up. youtu.be/90iaLaPMa9g

The August 27th, 1995 episode of 120 Minutes might have been the best episode ever. Hosted by Soul Asylum. Videos from PUSA, Pennywise, Matthew Sweet, Built to Spill, Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt, John Spencer, Wilco, That Dog, Bjork, Ramones, Gas Huffer, CIV, Pavement. All so good.

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂