[New post] Plancia Magna and the role of a Roman benefactress in Perge
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Posts by Ali Riza Esin
First released from our foundry, and still our best-selling typeface, Paverify is 5 years old now. 🙂🎂
So are we! 🥳🎉
As we said then "With Paverify, we paved the way for our type design journey."
#Anniversary #TypeDesign #GraphicDesign #Typography #Font #Typeface #Lettering
Affinity Designer screenshot of a historical map drawing of Lycian settlements in present-day Teke Peninsula, southwestern Turkey
The joy of looking over a map that functions as a design proof marked with autochthonous toponyms in its original script (work in progress).
#Lycian #lettering #inscription #map
How to correctly pronounce the consonants in the Turkish alphabet (source: Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey and Statist Internationalism 1919-1939 by Samuel J. Hirst, p. xii) (Hint: My name is not pronounced like "Ken")
I wanted to quickly explain why, school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing another major Epos:
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This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.
Masterpiece
Great article. I found myself searching for the Florin symbol.
Shows the implemented braille glyphs in the glyphs app.
The next version of MonoLisa will have Braille. Shout-out to @schriftgestalt.bsky.social for adding the possibility to create Braille in @glyphsapp.com lightning fast! ⚡
Ivory, Bluesky, Ulysses app icons in a row
verba volant & scripta manent
Not exactly a review, but a first. A very short introductory text about “Polias” (in Japanese):
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4-panel-comic by War and Peas named "Defrosting": 1. A robot stands in front of a cryo capsule with a person inside of it. He says, "Defrosting process started." 2. The person is now awake and says, "Show me my stock portfolio." 3. The robot shows him a graph and says "You're a billionaire, sir." 4. The robot holds up half a piece of toast and says, "But due to hyper-inflation you can now buy half a piece of toast."
At least those student loans are history.
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TIL, no video posting here. But, Hey! We have a brand new “Media” tab now! More coming soon, maybe? 🍿🙂
The male black cat sitting on top of a short pruned tree—his favorite spot.
Really?
“Algorithmic timeline” is an oxymoron.
“Now you will eat bread and drink water.”
It’s really exciting to be featured on MyFonts’ Special Offers front page (as @Esintype) — and yeah, it’s a milestone.
A cat lying on the paving stones of a park road, pointing ahead.
This is the way.
Bir.