Erik pointing to a doorway with an address of “146”.

Erik van Blokland (and friends), giving me a micro-tour of Berlin, points to the former residence of Trixie… yes, THAT Trixie.

18 panel cartoon titled "On the Day That it Happens" Panel 1- man walking dog in park, looks at phone, says "oh" Panel 2- two students in a classroom, one is showing the other something on his phone. Panel 3- a barista at work looks at her phone. Panel 4- 3 young women riding in a subway car, they're looking at one girl's phone. Panel 5- two seniors on a sidewalk, the man shows the woman his flip phone screen. Panel 6- a man in a supermarket talking excitedly to someone on his phone, he grabs extra nachos for his cart. Panel 7- two women in a hospital, one sitting up in bed, she wears a head wrap and has a couple of IVs in her arms, she is weak but relieved. Her companion sits next to her holding a tablet, smiling a little. Panel 8- 3 mechanics in a garage laughing over their phones. Panel 9- a busy cable news set off air, a producer shows papers of breaking information to anchor woman readying to go on air. Panel 10- two men happily preparing a meal, one has two bottles of champagne. Panel 11- man on a stock market floor, on a landline, waving papers to an off panel person, in the background, a man watches a terminal with a table ticking upwards. Panel 12- a woman on a balcony, looks to the sky holding a picture frame, in it a couple posed together. Panel 13- celebration on a street in San Francisco. Many people holding signs and flags. One sign has a No Kings logo, another says Protect Trans Kids. A woman stands on a newspaper box with a bullhorn, she is reading from her phone. Panel 14- a lone man in a cap sits in an arm chair watching the news. There are two AR-15s hanging on the wall. He is sullen, his hands balled into fists. Panel 15- a smiling man on a porch receiving 4 boxes of pizzas from a delivery man, behind them, friends approach with snacks. Panel 16- two young men getting fireworks. Panel 17- family with ice cream and popcorn. Panel 18- a couple kiss on a patio, fireworks in the sky, inside a news flash in tv "the flash, apparently official..."

Someday...
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A field with short lines. Only the angle varies. Deep flowing patterns emerge.

Math

A.I. Isn't People How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

Read this from @rusty.todayintabs.com, it’s short and sharp: www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

Type@Cooper – Python for Visual Designers

There’s still time to sign up for my online Python for Visual Designers workshop for Type@Cooper @coopertype, Thursdays 6.30–9.30pm US Eastern from 26 March–14 May (8 weeks).

coopertype.org/events/pytho...

Every time Monotype acquires another foundry, the homogenization of type accelerates. The antidote isn't nostalgia—it's supporting indies who still treat type as craft, not content.

LettError is a post-Monotype foundry.

LTR Limited Grotesque®: Probably never at Monotype, but available at letterror.com/limited/ and FontStand. Variable weight humanist sans. More flavor, less baggage. #fonts #typography #lettering #sans

LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type.

NEW: LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type is a beautifully drawn, semi-informal, low-contrast, illustrative humanist sans serif family with steeply angled italics, in two variable styles, with unexpected extra tails, curves, and characteristic details to stand out.
fontstand.com/fonts/ltr-li...

So, the smartphone ban in schools is going well … the Stephen Collins cartoon What are the implications of the smartphone ban for education?

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal “If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...

"I understand that it’s not a great look to have exchanged tens of thousands of text messages with The Cannibal King over many years. Still, cut me some slack. We've all had a questionable acquaintance or two in our lives."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...

A Message from Your Federal Overlords “Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the kill...

"While it may have looked like a shooting, it was actually a 'rapid de-escalation outcome.' We recognize that phrases like that may sound invented, which is why we ask you to repeat them anyway."

Eyeball

Our brand new Eyeball ep is here! Please share with everyone you know!

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Two skulls, drawn in black shading, on a white background. The lines are rough. The left skull appears to look at the teeth of the right skull. It points with a bony finger and says “CAVITY”. Both skulls appear to be grinning. Which they always do, one supposes. The text balloon is lettered in a rough Fraktur as if the artist wants to make some sort of point. In the bottom right corner, a small ornamented box with “E+H”

E + H, the bony lads, practice some dentistry. #ensorHolbein The drawing will continue until morale improves. #dentistry #cartoon

Black and white drawing of a skull, in the middle of 10 fish. They all look at the skull. Fanciful shading. Are the fish nibbling on the skull? That would be gross. Still. A text label at the bottom reads “Ensor feeds the fish”.

In a moment of zen, Ensor has dinner with the fish. Where is his friend Holbein? Out dancing probably. It can be read as a gruesome scene, but then again it is rendered in such fetching shading! Artistique! The drawing will continue until morale improves. #ensorHolbein

There's a Ted Lasso line..

Obscure, but not necessarily expensive car. Creaky house. Remote locations, boots in the trunk, always up for a hike. Regularly sitting down and having a tea (with suspects, more cops). And a swearing vocabulary that is so much richer.

The cover of the Italian edition (2001) of some of James Mosley's essays: Radici della scrittura moderna.

Remembering James Mosley
hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

A black and white drawing of two skeletons, with bits and rags still attached, doing a wild dance. Letter E and letter H float between the limbs. It could be a reference to James Ensor and Hans Holbein the younger, who, each in his own era, used skeletons to question authority and remind those in power that they are one step away from a neatly cut grave. Check the Holbein engravings.

Ensor and Holbein shake their bones. #ensorAndHolbein #dancingSkeletons #drawing #cartoon

Love them!

We’ve all been there.

So how's the algorithm here? You're all angry already?

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Poster with an image of a frog and the words “Don’t Obey”

#NoKings Cincinnati

People perceive thickness of letters very individually, and that’s why we are conducting Font Weight Survey to understand the regional preferences of font weight. Could we ask you for 10 min of your time? The findings will be published publicly once we have some results.
tptq.com/weight

Photo of the reflection of the lettering on the outside of the UvA library. You see the bookshelves on in the inside, and the reflection of the letters behind the camera. And a bit of blue sky.

LetterExchange, The Art Workers’ Guild in London, October 15 I will talk about the lettering for the Amsterdam University Library.
letterexchange.org/events

Red capital letter S in the back of a white van. Text reads "NEWSLTR #18 OUT NOW".

"…the main purpose of architecture is to provide surfaces for typography." Polemic! 🍿Fun and interesting things to read in the fresh NEWSLTR №18 Archives here → buttondown.com/letterror/ar...
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A quick visit to the library, shining in the afternoon sun.

Amsterdam University Library letters catching the sun. Nieuwe Doelenstraat, across from De Jaren, if you want to have a beer while looking at Martinus Nijhoff. Read about the design: letterror.com/uva/index.html

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, specifically), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!

...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.

🧵 A thread: