Okay, Comicraft is holding a 30th Anniversary promotion right now. They're the first big comic book design-oriented font design house in the world that I know of, started by Richard Starkings and John Roshell. They decided to kick off with thirty days of releasing remasters of their offerings, starting with their first font family, Comicrazy.

They're already set up for most European languages using Latin script, and back in 2015 added Cyrillic support. This year, they've added support for Vietnamese adaptations of Latin, as well as Hebrew script, which marks a first for that font family.

If you already own a license for Comicrazy, you'll get the update as part of your long-term support arrangements. Just check your "My Account - Order History" files if you bought a license after 2010.

(I bought a license back around 2015, hence my downloading.)

If you haven't got Comicrazy yet, my advice would be to wait for Comicraft's annual New Year Font Sale. I expect every family in the catalogue to be on offer during that sale at US$20.22 per next New Year's. Unless you've suddenly hit it big in the local lottery, or are otherwise highly fortunate, in which case, I would recommend you splurge now.

Yes, those are still showing up when I change web pages within Dreamwidth on occasion.

On to other topics...

Is anyone else who's looking for work in Canada having trouble accessing this website today?

Never mind!

This is a shock.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-hospital-network-failure-sept-2-2022-1.6563456

(Updated the next day, to note that the network IT issues were fixed. The press release/social media output from the Ottawa Hospital seems to be in for some critiques...)

I have to wonder, given this context re: Clip Studio Paint...

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/clip-studio-paint-subscription

Yes, Krita exists as an option and so does Affinity Photo...but I bought CSP for specific reasons of comics design suitability. So did many others.

An update: I can look at the listings from "outside". But if I try to log into my job-seeker's account, the login attempt doesn't work.

That's a problem.

Meanwhile, I'm listening to The Current on CBC Radio, and they're discussing the risks faced by homeless people. The return to this ongoing discussion were prompted by yesterday's murders in Langley, BC.

I started fiddling with that memory book project in Affinity Publisher today. More and more, I'm wishing that this machine I'm building it with had more RAM installed. I've been advised that I should have pulled out the hard drive, replaced it with an SSD, and put whatever files would not be actual programs onto an external hard drive instead. Well, if I had a steadier income, I'd have considered that.

On an unrelated note, where my left earlobe attaches to my skull...occasionally feels blocked or itchy, or whatever form of irritation seems guaranteed to keep me from thinking clearly about whatever else should be occupying my brain.

Does anyone know how one might get specific single colours in their current set of coloured pencils?

1. Cities have a positive value. We ignore and defy this truth at our peril.

http://spacing.ca/national/2022/04/01/why-we-must-stop-the-urbicide-the-killing-of-cities/

2. The Indigenous, Métis and Inuit nations sent delegations to the Vatican regarding the crimes of the Residential Schools. They got a response they hoped for, but didn't quite anticipate coming so quickly or so clearly. More work to be done in the months ahead, yes...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pope-francis-responds-indigenous-delegations-final-meeting-1.6404344

3. Can you do a road trip with an EV? I think we're closer to "yes"...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-electric-vehicle-road-trips-1.6404028

A bit more progress on this sketch...