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Erik

letterror@typo.social

<p>Erik van Blokland. I draw nice letters and I make useful fonts. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/typedesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>typedesign</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>typography</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/roboFont" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>roboFont</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/lettering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lettering</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/typeMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>typeMedia</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/nobridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nobridge</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/fuckai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fuckai</

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    Found a great new sushi place in Leiden!

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    So I’ll sell tickets for a talk about AI and type design, make sure it looks good for the socials and then just show books and sketch and chat? And everyone would be ok with that.

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    Behold this crisp, yet exclusive card with premium informations, on both sides, for the exports only, realised on a luxury 300 grams Biotop with deep, proactively recycled fibers that say “yes, thank you for gifting me this!”

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    🎶🎵🎤🪕🎷 “ Watcha gonna do when your tokens run out, tokens run out? clients will shout? — all hell be breaking loose! ”

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    Bring your laptop to the beach for some light reading: NEWSLTR №23: Typographic Summer. Out now for subscribers, and non-subscribers also, really. LettError will be traveling. https://buttondown.com/letterror/archive/news-ltr-no23-typographic-summer/

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    What if we say bicycles are Turing complete, perhaps tech money would support them.

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    Ethics aside, “Rolls-Royce has benefited further from huge demand for generators for AI datacentres” @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/19/rolls-royce-fixed-engine-problems-support-uk-narrowbody?dcr=apps&amp;amp;edition=uk#:~:text=Rolls%2DRoyce%20has%20benefited%20further%20from%20huge%20demand%20for%20generators%20for%20AI%20datacentres%2C

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    Someone steals your bicycle. Then a million other bicycles. Then says “you need to get into bicycles otherwise you will be left behind!”

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    A quick overview of the asterisms in the LettError fonts. All new titles have have the symbol and I will add them to older ones when useful. I prefer the asterisk with 5 strokes. For LTR Very Bauble the bottom asterisks are rotated inward to create the triangular counter. This is a pretty illusion. For CT Action Grotesque the legibility at 7pt was more important. It is a complex shape and I want to it do its job at scale. By moving the bottom asterisks outward, they create some room for the to...

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    Once I get my printer running again I will make more these tokens. Powerful stuff. Make Your Backups. Lose Nowt, Regret Nowt. Cheap Advice. #riso #makebackups #lettering #losenowt

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    Imagine spending all that AI money on education.

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    Apologies for this pun. #pun #ai #fail #lettering #veryBauble If you think this is funny though, read Doctorow’s “AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage”. Especially the observation where humans are left to take responsibility when an organisation switches to AI. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

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    Artspeak, a programming language for shapes from 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artspeak And contemporary rebuild. https://artspeak.quogic.com/ @drawBot

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    Excellent sign drawing skills at this typographic Koningsdag enterprise. ✨❤️🔥 @boom @frankrolf

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    Math. @drawBot

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    Take a risk. Have a thought. Make a new thing. Go nuts. FFS.

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    The LettError StickerFish stickers package available for Signal users. Because your fish are nobody’s business. #signal #privacy #encryption https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack_id=11ee3d3b177cb9bb9bac434876ceeca7&amp;amp;pack_key=5c4294bbd3293d9df1f8c41248baab7b258cb6fc4f092aae8328f81ffc90de8d

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    I heard my thread on contracts had disappeared from typo.social. I suppose I had picked aggressive delete prefs. Anyway, here are 10 things I wish I had known about contracts, on a single page. https://letterror.com/articles/contracts.html #contracts

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    Moment of Microsoft Teams zen. #teams #zen #discovermore #news

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    Interview with Shane Harris (American journalist, author and staff writer of The Atlantic) about #AI. At @DeBalie in Amsterdam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TD9AH_Stsc

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    If you&amp;#39;re just signing up to typo.social: this is an open and welcoming environment, and we (you, us, everyone) pledge to making participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone: https://typo.social/about/more #codeofconduct #benice

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    Look here. This is a method to make smooth and continuous non-orthogonal designspaces. In this example: 4 masters &amp;quot;on the outside&amp;quot; and 3 floating intermediates. (The shapes are from MutatorSans and only illustrate the extent of influence.) #interpolation #experimental #designspace #math #somethingnew

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    Longboard for RoboFont, on Mechanic. I&amp;#39;ve fussed about this before, and it took a lot longer, but there it is. Designspace navigation in the glyph editor. Measuring, testing. Oh, fast as well. Free, bite me. @RoboFont #designspace #variablefont #typedesign #editors

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    LTR Very Bauble ❤️ Longboard and @RoboFont! Imagine this is a long academic post about how building your own tools enables new ways of working that lead to shiny new work. Now imagine you read this, you know this old horse. But it&amp;#39;s remarkable how it remains true. Also, at this moment, maybe you just want to look at something pretty because hell.

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    Sunday morning designspace-thinking. While it is worthwhile to make each variable font source perfect, the majority of your designspace consists of mixes of these sources. How far does your perfect reach? When and how were you going to look at the actual outcomes? Oh of course, Longboard for @RoboFont , right from the start https://github.com/LettError/longboardRoboFontExtension Illustration with @drawBot

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    In Robofont Mechanic: 🛹 Longboard 1.4.0. This finally offers some support for anisotropic explorations. 🤪🙃🤓🤩😵‍💫🤡👻 @RoboFont #designspace #interpolation #tools #typedesign

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    Let’s think about the smallest of independent data points in a glyph, the hard work these dapper dots have volunteerd for, and how incredibly plentiful to keep track of. This is the plankton that swims around in the darkest, deepest corners of your designspace. And you know that if you misplace just one single of them, your entire pipeline collapses with angry tracebacks. Be kind to your anchors, see them swim. Use the new Longboard, a free extension for @RoboFont #tools #typedesign #yadaYada

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    Looking.

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    Before trying his hand at painting, Vincent v Gosch was into cooking. Berlin Hbf

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    Clear messaging from @TypeMedia 💪 #stopslop #fuckai #ai #arteducation