The Day I Discovered Type Design
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sebastianmestre
32 minutes ago
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TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed
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smitty1e
3 minutes ago
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One is fascinated by how others can be enthralled by something that seems, at first blush, so much polishing of the cannon ball.

But that's OK. The world is a better place for not being ruled by my bland tastes.

If I had to design a typeface, I'd bring back retro characters like thorn: Þ.

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furyofantares
1 hour ago
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> Lettering design I did for my high school yearbook in 1974.

Anyone else get an optical illusion effect from this? Looks like it's continually zooming out to me.

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fuzzylightbulb
5 minutes ago
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Same. Those colors were an intentional (and effective) choice
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