“But it was [Tré Seals’s] typeface ‘Ruby,’ named in honor of Ruby Bridges, the
first child to integrate a previously all-white elementary school in the South,
that grabbed my attention. Ruby is Vocal Type Co.’s reclaiming of
ATF ’s Jim Crow.”
Sarah K. Kramer ,
J for Jim Crow
(The Believer December 15, 2021 )
“[Y]ou could argue that the serifs, originally applied to inscriptions to be
seen under sunlight, could be a form of light trap, even though people in the
Ancient Rome wouldn’t have such terminology. They would have wanted to make the
letters stay legible for as long as possible in the day, and serifs are more
effective at keeping corners dark at variety of light angles than serif-less
forms.”
Toshi Omagari ,
Ink traps and pals
(April 3, 2021 )
“Former New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris says that the style editor was on
the verge of changing his mind on the diaereses back in 1978, but then he died,
and ‘no one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.’”
posted 3/26/2021 10:05pm ∞
“The innovation that Johannes Gutenberg is said to have created was small metal
pieces with raised backwards letters, arranged in a frame, coated with ink, and
pressed to a piece of paper, which allowed books to be printed more quickly.
But Choe Yun-ui did that—and he did it 150 years before Gutenberg was even
born.”
posted 2/20/2020 8:38pm ∞