✏ Erik

Hello I'm Erik van Blokland! I work in typedesign, lettering, tools, python, drawbot. I make fonts, some of which are for sale at the links below. I’m the head of the TypeMedia master at the KABK in The Hague. #typeDesign #typography #reading #toolDevelopment #python #roboFont #lettering #typeMedia


nostr:npub186vjxkyvnr7frj50la2u838yl87glhgty580gqvnzsmwz0nh8n6sxyza0g I am going to try this firmware editor.

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Don't rotate your components.


Nothing like a good designspace puzzle.


nostr:npub186vjxkyvnr7frj50la2u838yl87glhgty580gqvnzsmwz0nh8n6sxyza0g good luck to them.


Brief update on the lettering for the UvA Library.
https://letterror.com/uva/
#lettering #library #amstserdam #uva
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nostr:npub15cmahfj327aqsp5kaqc3gyksl3a4qf5ry852hhet9j8tzshwpmvsg0523s Fixed thank you!


Here's my positive and most upbeat take on the pending scuttling of FontShop.com: “After FontFont” - On the availability of LettError Type after Monotype: https://letterror.com/fonts/fontfonts.html


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u Saved these are webarchives, I don't expect them to be around much longer.


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u I have the earliest design sketches of fontshop.com because at some point we pitched the idea to FS sell fonts on internet.


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u Those comments..


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u No! though I suppose it could have been. I intended to respond to this post by nostr:npub1u0ukdf8dd8lfvx0jxcpeghg5syz0vxs0ag3e3lksw44jc8fqs9uscp5gee about the sad mess at the Processing foundation. https://information.garden/@benfry/111176713441913283


What a rotten piece of news. I hope the community rallies.


nostr:npub1fhywkegwd6vccuetxrqze9vefd2th07yk57rwpva8avnl9knphcsm2g6cs nostr:npub1swgg4y3j4pdqmhglkyayhkape25zgh9cp34zv22mywy7ww23zpus63yl4f tonight-ish PST.


nostr:npub1swgg4y3j4pdqmhglkyayhkape25zgh9cp34zv22mywy7ww23zpus63yl4f maybe something to do with balancing the load? Maybe manual updaters get to go first. And then perhaps the phone reports its availability to central command and then gets processed whenever?


Euclidian anisotropic extrapolation of MutatorSans knows you're secretly checking it out.

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I imagine spreadsheets to be something AI would come up with after an incomplete and feverish explanation of programming.


LTR Federal Bureau, a new, single layer, one stop, easy money typeface that will almost pay for itself. Available at https://letterror.com/fonts/federal.html and Adobe Fonts.

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nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u just to get an idea of what the fruits of our labor is worth.


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u it would be interesting to make a guess about how many individual designers worked on those 40000 fonts


nostr:npub1u7emw89tqm9fajzhl2wusgakjqnz8c7wp44s6qxcmfzgcmm4h0zs935xd9 research!


nostr:npub1u7emw89tqm9fajzhl2wusgakjqnz8c7wp44s6qxcmfzgcmm4h0zs935xd9 make it so.


nostr:npub1dzftgypx7x28pst7ac62uhrgt6rhd3v8vp8mw57aq4x0qr434ecsqwru9u at least they didn’t fire everyb


“Roll up” https://www.asimplemodel.com/insights/private-equity-roll-up


nostr:npub19lwykq3gy4820jazz2t2qgf2w6u2h02uhw2meumyxqehn6svdstqm972hg I guess that explains why they asked $11000 for a $2000 trademark.


Friends, if a small foundry wants to do a mailinglist, mailchimp? alternatives?


I'm reading about private equity and their business practices. It explains so much.


Shocking news about NFTs! Did not see that coming. At all. So sorry for your loss.


I am not making this up.


nostr:npub1mp98d7uvnawlqp6rxmt4d2tqya7h6qmv7kv6lz8lzu4gjw4hau2qg4ay62 We offer: a better blue, a much better oval, fewer bananas, more fish.


nostr:npub12mx90jq2thfc702veh2eeddf0237ztrypc3xy5j2dqx7sqntrzrqtdttea One might argue there should eventually be, in the light of science, be a version with feet.


For the time being this will have to serve as the foundry logo. It features the three capital letters, LTR, usually associated with the "LettError" brand. Taken from Principia, the brutalist triangular serifs state this foundry is not likely to make any compromises. Keen observers may recognise the main illustrative element at the bottom as the contour of a fish. All encapsulated in a non-elliptical, yet fetching oval. #foundry #logo

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Commercial Type has a new website! https://commercialtype.com/news/everything_new

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nostr:npub1lgkdrtaluqaanq4wpkft7zyumsmkerallt765kmt8lxzq5pp438qq6ew88 UFO in git works reasonably well. Not everything is awesome, but on the whole it is > than not using git.


nostr:npub1yamt4pnum78u4ludkwfttlmcltu5gsygqc8f8e62t4hcv32vvlmq0d2l9d "least awful" doesn't lose 😂


nostr:npub1u7emw89tqm9fajzhl2wusgakjqnz8c7wp44s6qxcmfzgcmm4h0zs935xd9 I use Tower - similar to SourceTree. The current project is outside of git for immutable reasons and the process is fragile. Hard to see where the changes are. Things stop working.


Managing font sources with git: 🤕

Managing font sources without git: 🤕🤕🤕


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nostr:npub1knq932yxc6zy840u3m30nwe982t6drpd75rasfugkg6t39mmnx5std9zyj nostr:npub1swgg4y3j4pdqmhglkyayhkape25zgh9cp34zv22mywy7ww23zpus63yl4f nostr:npub19lwykq3gy4820jazz2t2qgf2w6u2h02uhw2meumyxqehn6svdstqm972hg if not hundreds definitely high dozens.


nostr:npub1swgg4y3j4pdqmhglkyayhkape25zgh9cp34zv22mywy7ww23zpus63yl4f nostr:npub19lwykq3gy4820jazz2t2qgf2w6u2h02uhw2meumyxqehn6svdstqm972hg I’m going to sell font futures! Shimmering opportunities on the design space horizon!


nostr:npub19lwykq3gy4820jazz2t2qgf2w6u2h02uhw2meumyxqehn6svdstqm972hg Scammers selling GPT generated drivel to anxious, yet well funded companies?


nostr:npub19j8j890the48lygdqf2y6kzyjte32ml0dgjyyxzkf3f0w030dlsqfy5y5v nostr:npub15tufaxr2l3y77k8eee96s3n9xpwm0ywl273ydrxnscrlzmyxxzpse85v8d good tv, bad things


nostr:npub1zxxaanhp70t6d5s5d6n7w00lulgrahlne04haalqw48gah5jznmsk50l4c it’s ok they’re different, right?


Onward to nostr:npub1jcrs70960sau5y69cgmmwwn7k7eytfnp27r6my2mz3gapqqzeg2swvuxnj! I’m really looking forward to this one. I’m bringing some prints.

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nostr:npub19j8j890the48lygdqf2y6kzyjte32ml0dgjyyxzkf3f0w030dlsqfy5y5v nostr:npub15tufaxr2l3y77k8eee96s3n9xpwm0ywl273ydrxnscrlzmyxxzpse85v8d I gave up trying to follow it all and just started laughing. That helped :)


nostr:npub15tufaxr2l3y77k8eee96s3n9xpwm0ywl273ydrxnscrlzmyxxzpse85v8d This is true. Maybe the absolutely-everyone-is-yelling scenes needed some getting used to?


nostr:npub1wmfm2gnm9j5m762n895h0f3mey7qekaxsrdk0fwnucnft2a94xrsula0gk There's a curve. I don't think there was a mistake, just not sure how much it was on purpose.