Plancia Magna and the role of a Roman benefactress in Perge FOLLOWING HADRIAN The ancient city of Perge, located on the coast of southern Asia Minor in the Roman province of Pamphylia, provides a fascinating case study of elite benefaction in the Roman East. In Perge, Roman …

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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")

Vasilakis Crystals & Gifts, Heraklion This is the shop front of Βασιλάκης (Vasilakis), a home goods store in Heraklion, Crete. The company was founded in 1981 according to its website. Its current logo, found also on its website, does not...

The beauty of that Sigma

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Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

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.

Become a Patreon backer and help us to live forever. As long as we breathe we publish comic strips for free.

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.