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So instead, I use this "Chirp" avatar. Like if Bob Lappan was lettering a comic book adaptation of The Birds.

The font is actually Comicraft's Carry On Screaming. But it does remind me of Bob Lappan's more scary lettering back in the 1980's.

Wondering whatever happened to him and hoping that his current condition isn't too horrible.
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Ray Larabie remains on my list of preferred font designers, as you'll remember from my mentioning buying his Dealerplate family a few months back.

Anyway, Ray just made an announcement other font nerds might be interested in. As in, he just posted the news to Twitter.
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1. I got this linkage from the Weekly Typographic, an e-newsletter from the League of Movable Type: Hero Patterns and Zondicons. Both are run by Kitchener's Steve Schoger. Whom I'd never heard of before today. The former is a collection of background patterns for web pages, the latter for icons.

2. One person's idea of how many kinds of typefaces there are. You might disagree.

https://bonfx.com/types-of-fonts/

3. Another link from the Weekly Typographic: Sophia Yeshi on how she got into design, the value of people lifting one another up, representation...

More as it comes to mind.
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Thanks to Twitter, I stumbled onto this a few weeks ago. Over on MyFonts, there's a foundry specializing in Aurebesh fonts, too.

https://aurekfonts.github.io/

https://www.myfonts.com/foundry/edds-aurebesh-fontworks/
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
So, I'm hearing that select weights of Macklin are freebies for a limited time, and different weights on offer as such at MyFonts and Linotype. Limited-time...so I'm looking at what non-freebie deals I can/should get.
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This is something we see regularly in TV and film work for the various SF&F genres, but an actual government commissioning such a thing seems rarer.

https://www.omniglot.com/bloggle/?p=19125

https://www.smorgasbordstudio.com/work/cymruwalestypeface/

Mainland China's probably done it to support "Simplified" Chinese in their effort to supplant older versions of the written language...
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I'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's Dealerplate Font Family, sampling each of the seventeen fonts in the family
dewline: Logo: Open comic book with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (comic books)
Nate Piekos has a new font family intended to be free for amateurs and hobbyists and small press comics-makers in his catalogue at Blambot Fonts, called Sound-Check. Some of you might be interested.
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Noticing the similarity between the font used in the Canadian Tire logo and the one used for titles and author credits on most of the Star Trek: TOS novels published during the 1980's. I asked around on Facebook, and the conclusion reached by several of my friendlisters there was that we were talking about was called Futura Display. While there's plenty of sources for purchasing licenses for the "main" weight of Futura Display, there's not a whiff of the weight I'm looking for so far.

Any suggestions for legal sources? I've looked at MyFonts and Fontshop, so far.
dewline: (canadian media)
Star Trek fans of a particular style of set design re: The Original Series might be interested in this one:

https://nationalparktypeface.com/
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This is interesting for Star Trek fans with interests in model-building, graphic design and the like, and you prefer to work with TOS Starfleet hull design aesthetics.

While I bought a license for Amarillo USAF from tlai-dot-com, and consider the freeware font Airborne II superior because it includes character sets for Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew (in case you want your Earth-built starship hulls to be multilingual), this one went in for getting lower-case glyphs added to the mix.

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/stockbucket/hammer-and-tongs/
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Got chores done, bought snacks I shouldn't have, did some font shopping that I'm going to refuse to regret despite my finances, and enjoyed Doctor Who season-closing movie.

Spoilers about that last one in the comments if anyone cares to discuss...
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...and the cold spell seems to be letting up now, but the snow's coming down as if to compensate for that first thing. Not the first time this has happened anywhere, and it won't be the last. That's alright. I can live with that.

So while I'm waiting on word from my current employer as to whether I report to work again tomorrow or the day after that...getting some light laundry done, updating the Elephantmen International font from Comicraft (and Rigor Mortis now that it has a wider character set, as well as buying Prince of Darkness, Single Bound and Man of Tomorrow), and reading more of Artemis.

(Prince of Darkness? In my opinion, Tom Orzechowski should be getting royalties for inspiring it, because of his Wolverine wordmark for the original character of that ilk's first mini-series back in the 1980's. But I digress...)

I got Linden MacIntyre's new mystery novel The Only Cafe as a Christmas present from a relative, and I'm looking forward to getting to that as well. Some of the Canadian regulars here will remember his work as a reporter for CBC News, particularly the TV division's Fifth Estate series. In his retirement from field reporting and investigative journalism, he's been getting into fiction. The Only Cafe helped him scratch an itch of sorts on his soul from his field work in Lebanon...and if you want to know more than that, you'll have to do your own digging.

While waiting for the first load to finish in the wash, I'm also listening to Ontario Today. Because New Year's Day was yesterday, that radio phone-in show's gardening phone-in with Ed Lawrence is this afternoon rather than Monday this week. Lots of greenery chatter, much of it joyous in its turn. That helps me fight off badder moods than I want to deal with.

More as it comes to mind...
dewline: Text: Searching and Researching (investigation)
Someone decided to name one of their designs "Epilepsy". The designer being Polish, naturally that language's spelling would be preferred.
dewline: Graphic: animator's light-table with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (animation)
Found a notification about this in my e-mail today. Useful, maybe?

https://medialoot.com/item/evilution-distressed-horror-typeface/
dewline: Interrobang symbol (astonishment)

I plugged the search term into MyFonts today. Some interesting - and unexpected - results came back.

Miyagi for one. Stencil for another. For a third, Secret Service Typewriter.

Sure, there's a lot of stuff you would expect to find as well. But these three stood out as "out of expected place".

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