A montage of photos taken at the launch party for Fine Specimens in Brussels, Belgium, mainly of Elliot Jay Stocks talking or signing books at a table in the Waterstones bookshop. Photos by Tim van Damme, Doc Parsons, and Paddy Donnelly.

Brussels (stop #2 on the Fine Specimens book tour) was incredible! Thanks so much to @waterstones.bsky.social for hosting us, Paddy for leading our conversation, and everyone who came (especially @maxvoltar.be, @drbparsons.bsky.social, Danny Calders, @matratype.bsky.social, and Kaat Vandenbroeck).

Bree Devanagari /// Seven weights, including a juicy extrabold. The new Bree Devanagari, by @matratype.bsky.social and team, is here.

Get Bree Devanagari: www.type-together.com/bree-devanag...

#typography #fonts #Devanagari #multiscript #fontsky

Big day today! 🥳

@typetogether.bsky.social released Bree Devanagari www.type-together.com/bree-devanag...

@imissmyfriends.bsky.social, i.e. my brother Prateek + his partner Rhea, released their beautiful game Fishbowl store.steampowered.com/app/1638070/...

And I hear something a moon mission? 🤭

Bree Devanagari /// Pooja Saxena (@matratype.bsky.social)’s Devanagari companion for Bree combines calligraphic reminiscences with an even-tempered cadence to create a design that is equal parts affable and readable. Delicious!

www.type-together.com/bree-devanag...

#Typography #Devanagari #fontsky

The policy says that artificial intelligence-assisted content, once signed, will be the responsibility of the person who has generated it and the usage of AI cannot be cited as a defence for errors or misconduct.

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Fishbowl is 💜 OUT NOW 💜 on PS5 & Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck)

🫧 Play at your own pace
🪞 No bad endings only different paths
🗓️ Do as much or as little as you are able to
🛏️ Remember, no matter what, you got through the day

The two of us are in tears. Our game is out today! 🥹🥹

Big day today! 🥳

@typetogether.bsky.social released Bree Devanagari www.type-together.com/bree-devanag...

@imissmyfriends.bsky.social, i.e. my brother Prateek + his partner Rhea, released their beautiful game Fishbowl store.steampowered.com/app/1638070/...

And I hear something a moon mission? 🤭

After years of work, excited to see Bree Devanagari ready for release! Counting down to next week when it will be out in the world 😇 In the meantime, check out this मीठी सी झलक 🍭

In the last few days, a manufacturer of surgical gowns has raised the price by 50%. Another that sells disposable syringes, catheters, & dialysis kits has increased prices from 5% to 25%.
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Tabassum Barnagarwala reports how war is impacting medical supply sector in India.

Get yourself a copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING www.blaft.com/products/ind...! Better still, secretly send one to a friend 🫠

@blaftrakesh.bsky.social

Thank you, thank you! Hope you have fun with the book 🌻

A decorative entrance arch to a building compound. The building name is engraved in Roman and Gujarati letters: MORARBHAI VIJBHUKHANDAS MALVI MORAR BAG મારાર બાગ

Typography in the city.

#BombayWalkabout

For @matratype.bsky.social, @mumbaipaused.bsky.social

A fungal creature with skinny arms and distressed fingernails chats with a charming lass in a magenta sari in the library stacks

Our reprint drive for Kumari Loves a Monster is very nearly funded!

Help us hook up the @freelibsnet.bsky.social with some copies!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Dairy, mayonnaise sub.... Now, on buses, I annoy a myriad.

#palindrome

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Let’s go! ⚡

Kumari Loves a Monster Reprinting a romantic picture book about South Indian women who are in love with gruesome monsters. Bilingual English & Tamil.

Inching closer to the finish!

Reserve your copy of the KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER hardcover gold-foiled reprint

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

A bunch of Blaft books for sale!

One more day of the GOA ARTS & LITERATURE FEST. Stop by our table!

Cover of the book India Street Lettering by Pooja Saxena. It is a hardcover book with an assortment of typography on the jacket against a background of yellow. Next to the book is a copy of Saxena's zine Dead Letters #7, a bookmark with photos of letters, and a hexagonal white marble coaster with colorful inlay work. All of these items are resting upon a red, purple, navy, and cerulean placemat woven in a horizontal diamond pattern.

It's finally here!

Congratulations, @matratype.bsky.social! Your book INDIA STREET LETTERING is lovely, with gorgeous photographs and maps and just enough text to whet my curiosity.

Get your copy here—
www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Thank you! 🌻

It was on this day,
February 11
(but in the year 2020)
when the WHO
finalized the names:
COVID-19 and
SARS-CoV-2,
but at this point
you are more likely
to hear the virus referred to
as the “weird something”
everyone keeps catching.

India Street Lettering book released /// Our very own type designer, author, and lettering artist Pooja Saxena (@matratype.bsky.social) has released her excellent new book, India Street Lettering. 🧵 1/5

#lettering #graphicdesign #signpainting #India #beautiful

Even the monkeys are interested 🐒

You should get your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING today! www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Today we are packing India Street Lettering books for Kickstarter backers and a troop of monkeys has launched an assault on our mailroom. Chucking used tape rolls at them to keep them away from the bubble wrap 😂

How exciting! What will your area of study be? 🤓

Doing research and writing for a living for over a decade meant that I stopped writing for pleasure. Some time back, I started a blog on my website called Play in an attempt to break this pattern. www.ambersinha.com/play

The book INDIA STREET LETTERING is hot off the press, copies are already shipping to Kickstarter backers, and now it is time to take this show on the road! 📚️🥳

indiastreetlettering.com/india-street...

@blaftrakesh.bsky.social

Can't believe Fishbowl is on this amazing Most Anticipated Indie Games of 2026 list! 😻💜

Commiserations, and good luck! This sounds like an awful situation.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.