Erik
@letterror.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Hello I'm Erik van Blokland! I work in typedesign, lettering, tools, python, drawbot. I make fonts, some of which are for sale at the links below. I’m the head […]
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@fontspectrum We should not anthropomorphize font formats, they don’t like that. The typedesigner is taking photos of some lettering in the blurry background.
July 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
@fontspectrum We should not anthropomorphize font formats, they don’t like that. The typedesigner is taking photos of some lettering in the blurry background.
Once I get my printer running again I will make more these tokens. Powerful stuff.
Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #lowenowt
Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #lowenowt
July 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Once I get my printer running again I will make more these tokens. Powerful stuff.
Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #lowenowt
Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #lowenowt
Sunday morning designspace-thinking. While it is worthwhile to make each variable font source perfect, the majority of your designspace consists of mixes of these sources. How far does your perfect reach? When and how were you going to look at the actual […]
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June 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sunday morning designspace-thinking. While it is worthwhile to make each variable font source perfect, the majority of your designspace consists of mixes of these sources. How far does your perfect reach? When and how were you going to look at the actual […]
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What began as a imaginary book cover of an imagined Atlas of the World (with nice type) is now… still imaginary and very much made up. But at least Google AI thinks it is an actual book by me! So finally AI made me an author! At least the cover is real. Well. #ai #covers #verybauble #aislop
June 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What began as a imaginary book cover of an imagined Atlas of the World (with nice type) is now… still imaginary and very much made up. But at least Google AI thinks it is an actual book by me! So finally AI made me an author! At least the cover is real. Well. #ai #covers #verybauble #aislop
Oh look, Monotype scaring the senior leadership of their clients into… a zombie DSIG !? 🧟♂️ I bet the keys to sign your “secure fonts” can only be rented for a steep membership?
Not to mention on how this would work for streaming or subset fonts.
Discuss.
Not to mention on how this would work for streaming or subset fonts.
Discuss.
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oh look, Monotype scaring the senior leadership of their clients into… a zombie DSIG !? 🧟♂️ I bet the keys to sign your “secure fonts” can only be rented for a steep membership?
Not to mention on how this would work for streaming or subset fonts.
Discuss.
Not to mention on how this would work for streaming or subset fonts.
Discuss.
Can’t get InDesign to boot. Sequia 15.5 (24F74). Fresh Indesign install, first keeping preferences and settings. Then I tried a completely clean install. No dice, keeps crashing. Any suggestions? Is there a “safe mode” boot? A “forget everything I said before can […]
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June 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Can’t get InDesign to boot. Sequia 15.5 (24F74). Fresh Indesign install, first keeping preferences and settings. Then I tried a completely clean install. No dice, keeps crashing. Any suggestions? Is there a “safe mode” boot? A “forget everything I said before can […]
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Ready for my billion dollar merger.
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Ready for my billion dollar merger.
Longboard 1.3.9. In which @arthurfontzarelli does some plumbing to make Longboard compatible with exciting upcoming buttonsin DSE2. And a new contextual menu for copying previews while exploring the designspace. That is all.
May 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Longboard 1.3.9. In which @arthurfontzarelli does some plumbing to make Longboard compatible with exciting upcoming buttonsin DSE2. And a new contextual menu for copying previews while exploring the designspace. That is all.
Dutch word of the day: "doorstroomvennootschappen". Something like shellcompanies, if I understand that correctly. Three pairs of o! Double n, double p. Throat clearing clusters rstr and tsch. Source: @volkskrant
May 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dutch word of the day: "doorstroomvennootschappen". Something like shellcompanies, if I understand that correctly. Three pairs of o! Double n, double p. Throat clearing clusters rstr and tsch. Source: @volkskrant
Headline from today’s @volkskrant “weggeëbd”, present perfect of the verb“wegebben”. Three e’s, double g, bd, what’s not to like. #kerning #spacing #letters
May 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Headline from today’s @volkskrant “weggeëbd”, present perfect of the verb“wegebben”. Three e’s, double g, bd, what’s not to like. #kerning #spacing #letters
“A little Verdana showing, from Microsoft". Early specimen for Verdana. Source.. Microsoft? 1996?
May 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“A little Verdana showing, from Microsoft". Early specimen for Verdana. Source.. Microsoft? 1996?
"Congratulations on winning the Creative Alliance CD and 464-page catalogue as your prize at the 1997 Typo Quiz.
Call Alison Doyle at Monotype about special offers from the CD! We look forward to hearing from you. with compliments"
In original plastic seal […]
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Call Alison Doyle at Monotype about special offers from the CD! We look forward to hearing from you. with compliments"
In original plastic seal […]
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May 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Congratulations on winning the Creative Alliance CD and 464-page catalogue as your prize at the 1997 Typo Quiz.
Call Alison Doyle at Monotype about special offers from the CD! We look forward to hearing from you. with compliments"
In original plastic seal […]
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Call Alison Doyle at Monotype about special offers from the CD! We look forward to hearing from you. with compliments"
In original plastic seal […]
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Going through the shelves. Look at this cute analog pen and wash drawing of some sort of digital house? With centronics port and floppy bay no less. Some illustration work from 1991. #illustration #pen #ink #centronics #house #brain
May 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Going through the shelves. Look at this cute analog pen and wash drawing of some sort of digital house? With centronics port and floppy bay no less. Some illustration work from 1991. #illustration #pen #ink #centronics #house #brain
These served me well: classic Python books, but now they have to go. If anyone is interested in recent Pythonic history: pick up in The Hague. Otherwise these tomes will be resigned to the old paper. Box set. No shipping. #python #oreilly #reference #code #history
May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
These served me well: classic Python books, but now they have to go. If anyone is interested in recent Pythonic history: pick up in The Hague. Otherwise these tomes will be resigned to the old paper. Box set. No shipping. #python #oreilly #reference #code #history
Music themed NEWS LTR №16 for your eyes, in your mails, if you happen to subscribe the LettError News LTR. But you can always read the archives. Or sign up. It is free. https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/
May 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Music themed NEWS LTR №16 for your eyes, in your mails, if you happen to subscribe the LettError News LTR. But you can always read the archives. Or sign up. It is free. https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/
Father Catich would have had one or two things to say about this inscription for pope Francis.
Photo source https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-tomb-adorned-with-single-white-rose-in-first-images-as-mourners-line-up-to-pay-respects/ar-AA1DHDm5
Photo source https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-tomb-adorned-with-single-white-rose-in-first-images-as-mourners-line-up-to-pay-respects/ar-AA1DHDm5
April 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Father Catich would have had one or two things to say about this inscription for pope Francis.
Photo source https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-tomb-adorned-with-single-white-rose-in-first-images-as-mourners-line-up-to-pay-respects/ar-AA1DHDm5
Photo source https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-tomb-adorned-with-single-white-rose-in-first-images-as-mourners-line-up-to-pay-respects/ar-AA1DHDm5
A letter to the Guardian from Timothy X Atack on AI and art and it has this nice line:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/09/ai-doesnt-care-about-authors-but-meta-should
#ai #art #guardian @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/09/ai-doesnt-care-about-authors-but-meta-should
#ai #art #guardian @guardian
April 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A letter to the Guardian from Timothy X Atack on AI and art and it has this nice line:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/09/ai-doesnt-care-about-authors-but-meta-should
#ai #art #guardian @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/09/ai-doesnt-care-about-authors-but-meta-should
#ai #art #guardian @guardian
I'm selling my copy of the Stedelijk Museum catalog 498, 1971. Ton Bruynèl, Dick Raaijmakers and Peter Struyken. Wonderful examples of early explorations of procedural and computational art and music. Complete with three 7", 33⅓ RPM flexidiscs (in good condition […]
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April 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm selling my copy of the Stedelijk Museum catalog 498, 1971. Ton Bruynèl, Dick Raaijmakers and Peter Struyken. Wonderful examples of early explorations of procedural and computational art and music. Complete with three 7", 33⅓ RPM flexidiscs (in good condition […]
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You know you’re in Berlin when you find 3 ancient Mac fossils on the street. Grey. Silver door. PowerPC, maybe? #berlin #streetmac
April 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You know you’re in Berlin when you find 3 ancient Mac fossils on the street. Grey. Silver door. PowerPC, maybe? #berlin #streetmac
I love the murals at Amsterdam Amstel station. Today I read about the artist Peter Alma, and you can too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Alma #Mural #trains #nederlansespoorwegen
March 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I love the murals at Amsterdam Amstel station. Today I read about the artist Peter Alma, and you can too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Alma #Mural #trains #nederlansespoorwegen
Apple Notes on iPad, writing with the pen, when it takes your handwriting and then re-inserts it every so slightly, but unnecessarily different. Definitely auto, but not refined. It can be switched off! In the tools palette, the … menu, look for the "Auto-refine […]
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March 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Apple Notes on iPad, writing with the pen, when it takes your handwriting and then re-inserts it every so slightly, but unnecessarily different. Definitely auto, but not refined. It can be switched off! In the tools palette, the … menu, look for the "Auto-refine […]
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“A magnifying glass is not recommended unless the eyesight is defective.” Forking harsh words from R. John Beedham, Wood Engraving, Faber, Mcmxxxviii.
March 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“A magnifying glass is not recommended unless the eyesight is defective.” Forking harsh words from R. John Beedham, Wood Engraving, Faber, Mcmxxxviii.