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ellis carson jones

elliscarsonjones@typo.social

<p>graphic &amp; type designer.
<br />i love good books, good dogs, and good type.<br />making fonts at prologuetype.co.</p>

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    so i moved last week &amp;amp; i found this today at my new local indie… i think i’m in the right place.

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    just got the COOLEST in use picture of a custom font i did for a client!!! and i absolutely cannot show anyone. 😔😔 someday…

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    how do yall come up with the words you write when you’re sketching letters? just random off the top of your head? do you have a list of favorites?

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    help! i can’t stop abandoning in-progress fonts to start new ones that i later abandon to start even newer ones!

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    Ellis Design a Font That Doesn’t Have Concave Stems Challenge. difficulty: impossible

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    looking for resources to learn font engineering; does anyone have recommendations? particularly for someone with only a tiny bit of coding knowledge

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    quick, everyone show me your favorite italic type—traditional, funky, calligraphy, fonts, everything

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    thinking about starting a place to put typeface process/development blogs/writeups... does anyone have thoughts about putting it on my foundry site vs. some kind of newsletter/blog platform? if people prefer the latter, does anyone have any recommendations? (i will not be using substack.)

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    pleased to report that after resisting coding for my entire life i gave in and decided to start learning python for type design and 1) i am making good progress and 2) i am… having fun?!