👋 Designer / author / speaker
📗 Fine Specimens
📗 Universal Principles of Typography
👨💻 Adobe Fonts
⌛️ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom
⚠️ (Views are my own)
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Elliot Jay Stocks
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“It’s an incredibly difficult tonal balancing act, and one of the thrills of the early episodes is watching the show’s writers and directors pull it off with such aplomb.”
When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:
It‘s hard to believe that Type&Faces — which was stop #4 on the Fine Specimens book tour — was already nearly two weeks ago. A huge thanks to the team for having me talk and letting me sell copies of the book. And of course to everyone who came! Such a lovely crowd. Pop-up newsletter coming soon!
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You can add whichever Unicode code point you like (if you know it), or take a random one for a spin (if you don’t).
Kudos to @jakegiltsoff.bsky.social for the bulk of the design work and Jason Kisch for actually building the thing.
Well, the time has finally come: tomorrow is the fifth and final date of the Fine Specimens book tour! I’ll be selling and signing copies of the book (and UPoT) during the breaks of @typeparis.com, as well as speaking on a panel at the end of the day. If you’re there, please come and say “salut”!
I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Diana Varma on her Talk Paper Scissors podcast. This was my second time on the show and once again, she asked some great questions. Thanks for having me, Diana!
(You can listen to it from wherever you get your podcasts.)
I always love reading @aresluna.org’s thoughtful analyses of software design, but this one really stood out:
“The engineers decided to change the logic to increment the tone [caused by power converters] in precise few steps resembling a musical scale, rather than allowing it to rise continuously.”
This review perfectly sums up Widow’s Bay:
“[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined.”
The Adobe Fonts design team launched a fun little side project last week: Glyph Finder!
It allows you to see how the design of a specific character varies across a random selection of different typefaces from the Adobe Fonts library.
labs.fonts.adobe.com/projects/gly...
