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Hello! If you're new here, I'd like you to comment below with • your name • your location • your favourite typeface • anything else you'd like to share
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About the journey to the Typographic North
Hello type enthusiasts! I am Kristen, the creator of this community. I've made this place for all of us to have distraction-free, interesting and fruitful conversations about typography, type design, book design, publication design and related matters. I've been looking for such a community for years but found alternatives very noisy and dispersed. So I've decided to build this one. I hope you will join me in creating something great. Years ago I embarked on a journey towards writing a newsletter about my musings on typography, but a busy life, lack of focus and probably a fair amount of insecurity halted my progress. My hope now is that onboarding more people with similar interests will help me (and everyone here) to develop thoughts on these subjects. So, it's a journey we make together. I do not know where the winds take us but I hope that we can have informal discussions, share what we're working on, link to inspirational resources and learn from each other on our voyage. Please feel free to make posts about anything you believe is relevant to the group, and comment on other posts to create an engaging community of type friends. And if you have type friends out there, please invite them into this group, so we'll have more people to learn from. See you in the discussions! All the best, Kristen ––– Rules for this group: • No promotions, spammy posts or unsolicited direct messages • Posts must be reasonably related to type, design or creative arts See something you don't like or find noisy? Please report such content to the admin.
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The stroke. Theory of writing.
By Gerrit Noordzij. I’m about to read this small book and try to understand more deeply the relationship between culture, technology and the forms of the letters. Is anyone here familiar with this book and Noordzij’s ideas? Synopsis: “Published in Dutch in 1985, The stroke now appears for the first time in an English-language edition. The book puts forward a genuine theory of all writing, with any kind of implement: thus it covers both western and what we call ‘non-western’ writing. Noordzij starts from basic principles, and gives his attention first to the space around the letters: the white space that serves to define and distinguish what any letter is. He describes in minute detail how the strokes of writing can be formed. Here he uses simple geometrical concepts to underpin his descriptions. So the book is far from a work about art calligraphy and beautiful forms. Rather it is a sustained description of the phenomenon of letters and how they are made in writing. Noordzij’s theory serves to repair the split that grew up, with the invention of printing, between written and typographic letters. He shows us the underlying ‘written’ quality of all letters, with whatever technology they have been formed. With these ideas Noordzij can be seen as a prophet of digital typography, in which typefaces have been freed from the constraints of their embodiment in metal.”
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A future crushed
Found in Finland. If this is supposed to look futuristic I hope for a better future for us all. What’s with the Finnish company name underneath, squashed to bits?
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Märtha Louise & Durek Verrett's monogram
Norway's former princess Märtha Louise and her «shaman» husband Durek Verrett are still generating news headlines in Norway – this one typography related: about their monogram on a bottle of gin they've released. Christopher Haanes, renowned calligrapher (and my former teacher) says that the M and the D deviate so much from normative letters that they can barely be recognised as such, and questions why the M is so dominant compared to the D. Others criticise the two letters for belonging to different stylistic periods, being disturbingly nearly symmetrical and lacking a consistent stroke width and curvature. What do you think of it? https://www.nrk.no/mr/skriftekspertar-om-monogrammet-til-martha-louise-og-durek_-_-amatormessig-forma-ut-1.16947100
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