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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

This ubiquitous little sign has some various names: Octotherp, pound key, number sign, hash, hatch, tic-tac-toe, gate, crunch, and many others. Or just square. Here's a fascinating little narrative about the symbol: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/ #weekendthoughts

The shortest ascender/descender I ever saw. Feels awkward to me, just because I am not used to it? Or also because of poor spacing? (and I don't know which font it is, but that is not so important for me here and now).

I stumbled upon this typewriter ball art this weekend. I haven’t actually seen one of these in real life, but it’s an interesting technology. Nice to see the type and various impressions around it. Have anyone here used a typewriter with this kind of ball head?