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<p>Palaeographic Pen Pals. Amateur Archivists. Type Foundry/Skriftforlag.</p>

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    Scribes, meditation, breathing patterns, and the visual rhythm of written script: That’s a thesis I’d like to read!

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    New face, and 1 October there will be a new digital space. Shareable event link for the launch party: https://visitoslo.cruncho.co/nb-NO/place/A0z1dE/UnpackingMyLibraryLanseringsfestforMonokromSkriftforlag?origin=%2Fevents%3FsearchString%3DMonokrom

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    I would like to have a section in our EULA about what we promise to deliver, and struggle to quantify what is expected from a font file beyond following the OpenType spec. Wordings like &amp;quot;according to contemporary/current standards&amp;quot; seems very vague. Can you point to good examples of type foundry EULAs that address this?

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    @tphinney Speaking of amoral activities: the fact that you sit on the board of @atypi which allows a representative of ParaType to speak at the 2026 conference is, quite frankly, appalling.

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    Hey! The launch party has morphed into a launch festival: Our friends at Papa Borracho are hosting the after party, with dj contributions from sound artist Alexander Rishaug, Dj Poplove (of Perfect Pop fame), Fri ortografi &amp;amp; letterpress-printer Dj 12 Cicero. Doors open at Cappelens Forslag 1800 hrs, with a smörgåsbord of nerdyness.

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    Hei Oslo! Hvem trenger flyers?

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    One powernaps, two powernapsies

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    Bram de Does, the matrices for Kaba.

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    https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/norway-trad-folk-scene-report Norway’s Trad Folk Scene is Booming. Hayden Merrick for Bandcamp Daily.

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    Condensed Garland is jam-packed with-eye catching details. Which character is your favorite? https://monokrom.no/fonts/condensed

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    Gorgeous example of Northern Sámi writing by Lars Jacobsen Hætta, 1863. The accented mark that eventually morphed into the caron was, from the start, something completely different. The second image shows Jens Andreas Friis’ spelling, which he developed in collaboration with – or informed by? (I haven’t yet gone in to the full story) – Hætta during Hætta’s imprisonment in Oslo for his role in the Kautokeino riots.

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    “Times New Woman”

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    Today is a great day to join a union. Might not be the most obvious thing for a solo designer, but it can be a first step away from the neo-liberal impulses that define contemporary graphic design – such as chasing autonomy and peer recognition, and conflating your personal worth with financial success. Supplementary reading: J. Dakota Brown’s The Power of Design as a Dream of Autonomy https://www.jdakotabrown.net/writing/autonomy-pamphlet-2019

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    Important lesson for type and graphic designers from the liner notes of composer Ahmed Essyad: “[He] supported North African popular forms of expression and opposed its folklorizing through simplistic and ‘exotic’ representations (...) the real point is to open up an imaginary space where another modernity can exist outside the largely Eurocentric framework [...]”

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    Planning an outing to Amsterdam &amp;gt; Haag &amp;gt; Antwerp in the start of May. If you have any suggestions for record stores (digging for highlife, soukous from ~56–78, 80s–90s indie, shoegaze, some neo-classical, and whatever obscure gems I come across), they are most welcome!

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    Kerning pair of the day: “бї”, as in Olonets-Karelian “ке́бїе”.

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    Letter from William Morris to Mrs Morris, 1 November 1848. https://wmgallery.org.uk/object/letter/