On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

It's in français, so you might have an issue. Found out about it via Mastodon, and the ligature designs were just numerous enough to look entertaining and useful.

https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/index.html

I want to revisit this and see if I've understood what I'm looking at correctly.

Some of you might be interested in this:

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

- Back to the normal job search practices this morning.

- Successfully postponed the CPAP machine swap-and-payment date to next Tuesday in anticipation of finances falling together properly for that occasion.

- Continuing to watch lectures from Typewknd participants on YouTube. I am nerding out about type design this weekend.

- Tentatively scheduled to attend the monument installation for my late friend from Pen and Paper Workshop, Naomi Wilanski this Sunday morning upcoming.

- Missed today's City Planning Committee meeting being broadcast via YouTube.

- Other stuff to be added.

Should I sign up for this?

https://2021.typographics.com/typelab/

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

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.

1. I actually got some sketching time - with actual ballpoint pen and paper! - taken care of today. It's been weeks since the last such session!

2. Took in several video presentations during Day Three of Typewknd!

3. Did some housekeeping on my new computer's hard drive, exporting files so that I could clear some space. Before, I had 45-50 GB free space. Now, it's 75-78 GB available.

4. I got an hour's walking exercise in today. Half of it via the shopping errand for newspapers and groceries, the other from walking around the block. Usually, that latter was only three circuits around the block. Today, it was four.

5. Celsys has announced that Clip Studio Paint's got a new update, v.1.10.0, to become available to users starting in four days. Apparently, the big thing is import/export ability re: SVG files. They specifically refer to working with Adobe Illustrator, but we'll soon see if any and all graphic designware that can create SVG files can play nice with this. Corel, Affinity, Inkscape, and whatever else is currently in play, hopefully.

6. Solved my Clip Studio Paint brush size menu problem: it was millimetres vs. pixels. I fiddled with that setting and confused myself as a result. Oops.

I've been watching their YouTube channel (among other chores), hence my lack of posting much of anything more than replies to some of your own postings yesterday. I'm sorry for that.

Last week, kestrell spoke about preferred fonts for accessibility re: websites. Also, she asked this question:

Do folks have favorite fonts?

She has her own goals in mind for the answers to that question, regarding accessibility, and she's been getting useful answers from her friendlist. For myself, selfishly, I do have a list of favourites. Many - most? - of these favourites have very little to do with such concerns. There's a lot of aesthetic considerations and a lot of personal nostalgia in play with my list. There is a certain amount of privilege - the privilege of being sighted all my life thus far - in my thinking here. This is selfish. Absolutely so.

That said, I am going to go into some detail about my own list of favoured fonts. In this entry, and probably others down the line.

I start with Space: 1999. That TV series in the mid-1970's created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson was where I first started to care about typefaces, fonts, that sort of thing. Particularly the first season. Moonbase Alpha, the main backdrop of the series, doomed to wander the universe by an ill-placed nuclear waste dump turning a large chunk of our Moon into a giant fusion rocket...that place had a particular design aesthetic. Signage across the moonbase was in a font called "Countdown". Designed by Colin Brignall, I don't know how it reached the attention of Space: 1999's set designers and graphic designers.

He also designed Superstar, the font that Milton Glaser incorporated into the classic "Bullet" logo of DC Comics. So there's two.

Back to Space: 1999. The space suits were jumpsuits with the helmets, life support hardware, and so on worn over them. The life support hardware packs - front and back - were numbered. The numerals came from "Data 70". The packs labelled "1" were usually worn by Martin Landau in character as moonbase commander John Koenig when a scene would call for him to expect to do EVA work, and had that numeral inverted. Not sure why.

(There's apparently an argument over whether Data 70 is a knock-off of another font, Westminster. If you're interested, check this essay out.)

More to follow...

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.