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A review of #lettering and #typography. Since 2002. Posts by editor @stewf.com.

Primarily on Mastodon with many from the type community: https://typo.social/@typographica
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Highly professional adaptive reuse.

Pee Wee’s Pizza, San Leandro, CA.

2009 www.flickr.com/photos/tspau...
2025 maps.app.goo.gl/8sXiQKst6bVL...

#Signs #Neon #NeonSigns #Oakland #SanLeandro
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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From the Collection: Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie. Meet the Czech designer who shaped how generations of readers encountered poetry. A new blog post by Tanya George. letterformarchive.org/news/sylvie-...

#Lettering #BookCovers #Poetry #GraphicDesign #Illustration #CzechDesign
From the Collection: Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie
Meet the Czech designer who shaped how generations of readers encountered poetry.
letterformarchive.org
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): www.adobe.com/plans/creati...

Just learned this from Tom Phinney: typedrawers.com/discussion/c...
Adobe plans and pricing for creative professionals
www.adobe.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“For a division that promised better services, the NDS’s first releases are remarkably devoid of services altogether. Of the four (soon to be five) public-facing projects associated with NDS, none meaningfully connect users to a government system where any real task can be completed.”
I wrote a piece for @archpaper.com about 18F, the National Design Studio, and the insidiousness of “rebranding” government services instead of improving them. Thanks to my editors for letting me use the phrase “tread on me daddy” in an architecture publication 🫡
www.archpaper.com/2025/12/nati...
www.archpaper.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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If the State Dept doesn’t want to use Calibri or Times New Roman, they could always opt for Satanick, an 1890s knockoff of William Morris’s Troy by ATF
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Ditching Calibri as a “wasteful diversity” font is both hilarious and sad.
Here's a quick reminder of what Calibri actually is and why it matters. (1/2)
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The State Dept. font story is pretty silly, but I like that it gives the public a chance to learn more about a craft they encounter every day. Here’s the designer of Calibri, Luc(as) de Groot, on CNN talking parameters and spindly serifs. video.snapstream.net/Play/2UPcOhf...
What We Know With Max Foster - Luc de Groot
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December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Flip-through book review of Stephen Cole's modern classic, The Anatomy of Type 👀 @stewf.com #typography
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December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Tezzo Suzuki calendars are on their way to the Archive! This year features 228 new numeral designs. reorder now to get yours by the end of the year. letterformarchive.org/shop/tezzo-s...
Tezzo Suzuki Calendar 26 (2026)
A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in the graphic arts.
letterformarchive.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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We re-publish this article initially written in 2000 by Evert Bloemsma (1958-2005), and never published to our knowledge. Evert discusses the challenges and considerations involved in typeface design:
typofonderie.com/gazette/look...
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I collaborated with CMYK and Angela Kirkwood on the redesign of cult classic game Magical Athlete! I worked on the brand identity, art direction, and all the graphic design for components like cards & tokens. Now ask me how much math I had to do to make an evenly spaced game board with 31 spaces...
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A deep bow to @kellianderson.bsky.social for the astonishing ambition of Alphabet in Motion. My favorite pop-up mechanisms are those that clearly explain principles of type design that are difficult to show in static images: #KelliAnderson #PopupBooks #TypeDesign #Lettering
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Last night’s opening reception of “Piet Zwart: Brand Architect” was a great beginning for a great exhibition at @letterformarchive.org. Well worth a visit!
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Still my favorite photo and caption in any book ever. (Muriel Cooper, by Daniel Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger. MIT Press, 2017.) #MurielCooper
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you’re at all interested in type history, the Stephen O. Saxe fellowship at RIT is a great opportunity to dig into one of the deepest troves of specimens & foundry documents. I’d love to see more of his collection surfaced through research. www.rit.edu/carycollecti...

#TypeDesign #TypeSpecimens
Summer Research Fellowships | Cary Graphic Arts Collection | RIT
www.rit.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com
Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation
Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation
buttericklaw.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Also, you get a comma. And a capital S which is usually a more useful test than T.

Shorter phrases for font testing: library.typographica.org/short-phrase...
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
IBM Selectric typewriters have appeared in countless movies and TV shows, but no individual machine will ever be seen as many times as Stephen J. Cannell’s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3s...
All of the Stephen J Cannell Logos
YouTube video by OjoCrítico.com
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November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Thank you to the folks at the @flickrfdn.bsky.social for asking me some truly fantastic questions about archiving, the ephemeral nature of digital archiving, and what I've learned from working with Brits. (As ever, Flickr remains the best website on the internet!!!) www.flickr.org/a-chat-with-...
A chat with Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivst - Flickr Foundation
www.flickr.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Erik Marinovich & Lucas Sharp’s new Rotina is very fun. www.sharptype.co/typefaces/ro... I like how Erik brings his lettering instincts into his type design.

The Swash, a refined improvement on 1970s Helvetica & Univers Flairs (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/16...), is what the promos feature most,
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :)
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.

#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
An IG type specimen for a one-off display face by a young, trendy designer?

No, this is Monotype in 1971.

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#Neographik #TypeSpecimen #Fonts #Typography
Monotype Neographik ad, Penrose Annual, Vol. 64, 1971
I’ve always loved Neographik. Just one single style. A bit awkward, but sensible at the same time. Rarely used. The most recent prominent appearance was for the 2007 rebrand of The New Museum.
www.flickr.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Tweeted in 2011. Let's make it true in 2026!
Two unique buttons in every browser:
1. Read (using user's CSS prefs, a la Readability)
2. Pay (to publisher from user's personal fund)
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM