Mar. 2nd, 2020
FONTS: License Plates, Revisited
Mar. 2nd, 2020 01:45 pmI've bought or otherwise legally acquired fonts inspired by license plates for cars and suchlike. Canada Type's Driver Gothic and E-Phemera's California Gothic for examples.
Ray Larabie did something interesting last year, that I only recently found out about. He came up with a family of 17 fonts, each of them inspired by one of the most heavily used plate-number styles in North America, each of these from a different US state or Canadian province. He's branded the family "Dealerplate".
By way of visually explaining what Ray's done here, let me link to one of the visual files hosted at his end.
Ray Larabie did something interesting last year, that I only recently found out about. He came up with a family of 17 fonts, each of them inspired by one of the most heavily used plate-number styles in North America, each of these from a different US state or Canadian province. He's branded the family "Dealerplate".
By way of visually explaining what Ray's done here, let me link to one of the visual files hosted at his end.
RUSSIA: One More Reminder...
Mar. 2nd, 2020 06:28 pm...of why I left Livejournal back in 2017.
The new terms of service once the server farms were moved from San Francisco to Moskva required - to my understanding - that users conduct themselves on LJ as if they lived in Russia.
Well, Vladimir Putin and his cronies have put forth another reminder of what that means, and why I want nothing to do with such practices: a new batch of constitutional amendments.
Details here in this article by Andrew Roth for The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/vladimir-putin-submits-plan-enshrine-marriage-between-man-woman-russia
The new terms of service once the server farms were moved from San Francisco to Moskva required - to my understanding - that users conduct themselves on LJ as if they lived in Russia.
Well, Vladimir Putin and his cronies have put forth another reminder of what that means, and why I want nothing to do with such practices: a new batch of constitutional amendments.
Details here in this article by Andrew Roth for The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/vladimir-putin-submits-plan-enshrine-marriage-between-man-woman-russia
WRITING: Aaron Sorkin
Mar. 2nd, 2020 08:54 pmI needed to read this. It covers a lot more ground than this, which is part of why I needed to read this.
Also, I want to challenge him to find something to bring to the heroes with capes now. Because I think there's a place for him in that part of pop culture. If Ta-Nehisi Coates can do it...and he's doing it now...
Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
twistedchick for that linkage.
Also, I want to challenge him to find something to bring to the heroes with capes now. Because I think there's a place for him in that part of pop culture. If Ta-Nehisi Coates can do it...and he's doing it now...
Thanks to
twistedchick for that linkage.