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  @clauseggers FYI

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  I am delighted to have discovered EMbox electronics: https://www.emboxindia.com

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  text-proof now supports multi-column output! I made this proof with the following command: text-proof -c al3 -a -l 2 Chidori-Medium.otf - c al3 # character set Adobe Latin-3 - a # “all” – use the whole character set (show each character at least once) - l 2 # two columns text-proof (and many other @drawBot -based proofing scripts) are available here: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/drawBotProofing

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  @henk Hoi Henk – I recently came across this statement from Mark Simonson: “When Henk Gianotten interviewed me in 2009 for the Dutch magazine Publish, he criticized the ¤ in Proxima Nova as being unacceptable.” https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/67083/#Comment_67083 I was wondering if you’d have any examples of real-world use for the symbol ¤? Dankjewel!

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  Unexpected FF Amman Serif encounter in Heybridge, UK @yanone #fontsinuse

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  In my work, I use a lot of @drawBot for automated #typesetting. The internals of fonts sometimes are difficult to understand (especially if I am not the designer) which is why I like checking fonts with #DrawBot. Some of my DrawBot-based proofing tools are available at https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/drawBotProofing. This is not new – except that these tools are now pip-installable! All you need is Python 3.11, and you can install them via the command line. I’ll explain some of the proofin...

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  I guess overhearing this kind of conversation only happens in The Hague (in Dutch): ❝Oh yes, the T_h ligature – it’s such an Adobe invention❞ I’m not a fan of it, and I held that same opinion for a long time – but I’ve also seen it in older fonts (which is what I communicated to those KABK students after chatting them up 😆)

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  I enjoy improving the little tools I use everyday. Which means that the RamsaySt RoboFont extension now has * better support for assigning empty neighbors * better import/export procedure * better z-index logic https://github.com/typemytype/ramsayStreetRoboFontExtension/issues/6 Hurray @RoboFont Extensions!

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  I just uploaded photos from the @TypeMedia graduation show ’24 – it’s always a bunch of work, but perhaps it’s worth it! https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankrolf/albums/72177720327638073

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  this might just be the perfect video https://youtu.be/VJ92u-jyyMI