On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Fonts/Mapmaking/Trek Fandom: A Particular Need

2026-01-14T00:05:41Z

I'm shopping for a particular kind of font family. Looks close to Helvetica UCE, has multiple weights like Gravitica Compressed or Tungsten and has at least two character sets in addition to Latin. Greek and Cyrillic at least.

Can anyone here help me with this?

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Indigenous Type

2025-08-29T23:02:00Z

I got wind of this via the League of Movable Type newsletter this morning, so it seems a good idea to share this with all of you reading this account. Because Indigenous type resources are part of the Comeback process as outlined by - among others - John Ralston Saul...

https://www.typotheque.com/blog/cherokee-osage-and-the-indigenous-north-american-type-collection

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Trek: Andorian Language(s)

2024-05-30T02:16:47Z

Anyone here into Andorian language(s)?

I want to work up a world name. Or maybe five...

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Memory and Words

2023-11-13T15:29:06Z

Yesterday, I needed to be reminded that "eavestrough" is a word and what it's used for.

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Selected News Items - 21 Oct 2023

2023-10-21T23:13:43Z

1. Mikmaq keyboard to be available for Apple products. I first heard of this via CBC Weekend World Report on the radio.

https://www.kinu.ca/stories/mikmaw-keyboard-available-in-apple-products

2. Anti-trans laws in the US getting support from a Canadian researcher. CW: anti-trans rhetoric quoted at some length, with "protest"-march posters to match.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/james-cantor-gender-affirming-care-bans-1.6979356

3. The argument for off-planet mining is gaining strength in some quarters.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/space-is-starting-to-look-like-the-better-mining-operation/

4. The political state of "British Columbia", from one perspective:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/20/BC-New-Political-Map-Right-Split-Kevin-Falcon-Conservative-Surge/

5. An argument for Pharmacare in Canada:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/10/19/Pharmacare-Big-Moment-Political-Will-Trudeau-Liberals/

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Star Trek/Fan Art/Fonts: Vulcan Fonts

2023-08-01T03:27:55Z

Something of possible interest to fans of the following topics:

Star Trek Design
Conlangs
Constructed scripts
Fonts
Fan art
Typography
Font design

https://vulcanquest.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/fonts/

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Job Search: Another Question of Phrasing

2023-04-12T09:49:46Z

Is "Product verification" another phrase for things like "acceptance testing" or "quality assurance"?

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So...it's been a day, right?

2023-03-30T23:55:07Z

The Doctrine of Discovery repudiated.

Putin's cyberwarfare infrastructure further exposed to public scrutiny.

Starfleet Academy is finally going into production.

Indigenous names are going to get more respect on birth certificates in "British Columbia".

The Mar-a-Lago Malefactor's been indicted.

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"COVID Hegemony"?

2023-02-03T16:54:35Z

I am both unsurprised and frightened that this idea might actually be governing the thinking of people in high places right now.

https://www.croakey.org/rethinking-covid-hegemony/

Please note that this essay does contain constructive ideas on how to respond to this danger.

Source: https://twitter.com/ccleighton/status/1621504471762173952

Said Author maintains a Fediverse presence here: https://mastodon.social/@ccleighton@med-mastodon.com

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Mistaking Uniformity For "Fairness and Equity"

2022-12-28T14:13:16Z

I have concerns(!) about the choice of phrasing in Treasury Board President Mona Fortier's arguments for a hybrid work model for those branches of the federal civil service that her branch of the federal cabinet has jurisdiction over.

Also, doubling down on "right of the employer" rhetoric is not helpful.

The civil service needs sufficiently safe workspaces to return to and, for those who do not or cannot drive, a sufficiently safe public transit system to use to get there. I'm not seeing that here. OC Transpo and STO must be allowed to return to "mask up!" rules for everyone who can medically manage it or this isn't going to do what the current government is hoping for. And the same requirement exists for public transit in any city that has such services and a federal civil service presence.

Without at least the mask rules back in place, we won't have safe federal workspaces. We'll have superspreader sites. Again.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/treasury-board-president-calls-return-to-office-plan-right-of-employer

(Yes, there's other arguments to be made for efficiencies, pollution/ecological considerations, savings on government expenditures, etc.. Other people are making those arguments.)

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Fonts: Comicrazy Adds Hebrew Support

2022-11-01T23:36:13Z

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.

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Jobs: Three-Letter Acronyms and Diplomas

2022-09-28T18:57:33Z

I'm trying to update my Jobillico profile, and need to nail down which three-letter acronym (TLA) to use to describe my diplomas from Algonquin College. What's the international, anglophone TLA best suited as a substitute for "OCD" (Ontario College Diploma)?

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New Fonts for Turtle Island Syllabics

2022-01-24T12:18:17Z

Some of you might be interested in this:

https://www.typotheque.com/blog/north_american_syllabics_fonts

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Assorted Items of Interest - 2 Jan 2022

2022-01-02T15:09:35Z

1. Canada needs a revision of our own dictionaries. And it doesn't stop with our dialects of English. Oh, no...

2. The Québec COVID Curfew is not being taken well in some cities.

3. Speaking of the Legault/CAQ government in Québec at the moment, a number of cities across Canada are putting up a fight against Bill 21 specifically...as a group, as noted by Shawn Micallef in the Toronto Star. I'd link to it, but...paywall to non-subscribers.

4. TBDL.

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DSC: "Choose to Live"

2021-12-03T03:21:55Z

One word I was most pleased to hear this week:

arie'mnu

And there were other moments as well throughout the story. A story that's being given time to "breathe" properly, as far as I can see.

Spoilers in the comments...

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JOBS: Linguistic Mistakes On My Part

2021-09-30T21:46:16Z

I did wash out on the French test this morning.

Frankly, it was and still is the responsible thing for this particular employer to do, and - more importantly - the kind thing to do. Hospitals in the National Capital Region on either side of the Québec-Ontario border absolutely need fluently bilingual people filling their public-facing job categories.

Eventually, you'd ideally want to have everyone on such a payroll to have at least one additional language on their resumé, too, since we are both a national capital region - with the international traffic you'd expect because of embassies, consulates, legations, etc., as well as respecting our treaty duties to our Indigenous relations. Around Ottawa, that would imply a need for Anishnaabemowin, the Haudenosonee languages, some people with Inuktut fluency as well because of the back-and-forth medical traffic between Ottawa and Iqaluit.

I have no regrets about this, except that I have neglected keeping up my French-language skills since moving here from Saskatchewan. That's my mistake to own.

Back to watching videos on Clip Studio Paint, font design via Typewknd, and other chores tonight...

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French Tests and Font Design

2021-09-30T14:05:07Z

Okay, the French-literacy skills test is over. I think I've washed out of consideration for that job, and frankly, I'm okay with that. I do NOT want to mess up on a clerical job at a hospital in either official language.

Next topic...font design. I'm attending Typewknd 2021 off and on from today through Sunday as part of my learning process re: graphic design in general and typographic design in particular. They'll be posting the individual lectures on their YouTube account in the weeks ahead.

Right now as I type this entry, the topic is "Designing a Feminist Devenagari Typeface".

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Talk Like a Pirate Day Tomorrow?

2021-09-18T15:53:18Z

Apparently, that's the case. Just looking around for confirmation/debunking.

Getting my bedding washed and dried in the meantime...

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Installations of Governors-General in Inuktitut

2021-07-26T14:56:14Z

This is, I think, a first for CBC News!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OBg98MYF4

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News: Pas d'encore, M. Legault!!!

2021-05-14T12:20:39Z

Here we go again.

Québec premier François Legault is looking to aggravate the language situation yet again. Details here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-bill-101-language-revamp-1.6023532

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-96-quebec-language-laws-1.6025859

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pontiac-quebec-language-law-joanne-labadie-1.6025706

The second article's headline invoking the word "reforms" is a horrible word choice for describing this idea.

So much for peace within Québec in particular and Canada in general...and we should have expected as much from the CAQ.

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TYPE: Indigenous Writing Systems and Unicode

2021-04-27T21:34:58Z

Wow.

Speaking of progress in creating technological infrastructure for language preservation and revival...I'm not sure I understand even a tenth of what I'm reading here. But seeing this work laid out at all?

Incredible.

https://twitter.com/calligraphio/status/1385241930905399298

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21088-ucas-revisions.pdf

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Government and Languages - A Couple of Items of Interest

2021-04-05T12:40:25Z

Re: Ottawa Public Health

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-public-health-somali-town-hall-1.5975528

OPH source:

https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/multilingual-resources.aspx

Re: Drivers' license certifications in Indigenous languages

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/g1-drivers-licence-test-indigenous-languages-1.5972703

Current details available here:

https://drivetest.ca/tests/knowledge-tests.html

This has always been a functionally multilingual land, no matter what laws may have been passed to put a stop to the tradition and practice, either Canada-wide or in specific jurisdictions within what we now call Canada. These news items document governmental efforts to accept and accomodate the fact instead, which I approve of.

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FONTS/LANGUAGES: N'Ko Script by Tapiwanashe S_Garikayi

2021-02-19T23:18:38Z

An acquaintance of mine just uploaded the results of a font design project near and dear to his heart. Some of you might have an interest in it as it focuses on one of the scripts of the African nations. The Twitter thread that starts with this posting explains more of the context...

https://twitter.com/Sebastiangary1/status/1362791871202869250

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Fonts: Designing for Hebrew?

2020-12-28T19:05:58Z

Apparently, there's a get-together for "crits" being organized if you're working on a font expecting to work with the language.

https://www.alphacrit.alphabettes.org/

If you know someone who's interested, feel free to pass it along.

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TREK: For Your Klingon Moods

2020-09-25T19:44:25Z

If it needs work for the text to be more legible, please let me know.

Otherwise feel free to use this icon in honourable battle across Dreamwidth!

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