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  Periodic reminder to update your (my) résumé and CV because otherwise you (I) will never remember what you’ve (I’ve) done…

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  Evergreen post: Hey man, we need to update the updater so you can update your software to the most recent update…

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  DID YOU KNOW THAT ALL CAPS MEANS SHOUTING? DUH, ISN’T THAT OBVIOUS? Well, it’s not as obvious or new as you might think… Announcing publication of my newest article for PRINT Magazine: https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/how-all-caps-lost-its-voice/ cc @printmag @jamieclarketype @glennf

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  RE: https://typo.social/@onpaperwings/117010297988335717 Some weekend reading, perhaps?

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  Completed my @typecon presentation on 10 years of Variable Fonts today (yes, it was due earlier this week and I’m the worst) and I *promise* the talk is more positive than this…

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  After many years of searching, I finally have acquired an original Denver 76 Olympics poster! Getting it properly restored and eventually framed to display proudly. I love it so much.

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  Finally (!) FontDue has a proper marketing page: https://www.fontdue.com/ Interesting to note for myself and my Type Advisor clients.

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  WEBSITES, man…

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  Two birds heading to London. I’ll be on one of them. Surprisingly anxious about studying typography for the next three weeks.

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  Rare opportunity to purchase the original Linotype DVD with full booklet *and* a slug of type from a Linotype machine! These sold out almost 10 years ago and will never be reprinted (current DVDs are a digipak without the booklet or slug). Not my auction, btw: https://ebay.io/m/JTG6z0

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  Said by one of my Type Advisor clients today, “It’s not about length, it’s about if I have time to make it shorter.” This rings true about all sorts of writing, I believe.

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  I recently saw one of my kids do a Google search on their school Chromebook and I had already forgotten how garbage everything was over at Google — and that is before this week’s announcements… https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/116609449612938554

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  To all of the supporters of my book project for the past three years (officially today, in fact) I am *forever* in your debt both financially and emotionally. You know who you are. Your interest has given me tailwinds when I was feeling tired and overwhelmed by all the information I’ve collected. Issue No 18 of my newsletter is being prepared with some big news and will be sent out soon. You can read previous issues here: https://buttondown.com/linotypebook/archive/

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  🚨BIG RED ALERT! 🚨 Haven’t seen this low of a starting price in many years. https://ebay.us/m/LVRdiE

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  Always a good day at Type Advisor HQ when Rob Roy Kelly’s “American Wood Type: 1828–1900” comes off the shelf for a client!

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  As I continually have people asking me, “Doug, when is your Linotype book going to be out?” I want to let everyone know that another book about the Linotype is coming out this summer! It is written by Jeff Jarvis and we have been in contact for the past couple of years, sharing research findings, commenting on each other’s writing, and generally supporting *any* book project that tells the praises of this revolutionary machine. 1/2 https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116562410374980359

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  Are you looking to build digital products and want to work with good people that do good work? If so, I cannot more highly suggest Chris and the team at Faculty! https://mastodon.social/@shiflett/116563060727580996

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  Could it be DNS? (it’s always DNS).

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  RE: https://omfg.town/@dansinker/116573902502764688 This post resonated with me and it might with you too. I often struggle trying to balance my love of typography when I see my country, actively being destroyed in front of me. “Trying for something other than this” is what I can do.

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  Great to see @btuttle's work for BEEF featured on @itsnicethat! https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/benjamin-tuttle-netflix-a24-beef-titles-typography-graphic-design-spotlight-060526

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  This is a very niche post, but anyone that has an interest in printing technology and typographic history should fill out this short survey on the future of the Type Archive in London which shut down and is now under the Science Museum Group: https://www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2024/4/12/the-monotype-collection-the-next-chapter cc @typographica @okay @typeoff @kupfers

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  That Z is simply *fantastic* — congrats on the release! https://typo.social/@daytonamess/116488423176424615

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  For your afternoon, evening, or morning reading: that time I found a whole box of touched-up photographs at a museum in rural Germany: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/the-box-at-the-museum (I’ve been going back through my research and was documenting these images for possible inclusion in my book)

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  Anyone looking for a big ol’ Lanston Monotype (the American branch of the Monotype company) specimen book in good condition at a reasonable price? There isn’t a date on this one (I already have a copy) but I would guess around 1925–1935? Give this a look: https://ebay.us/m/2w3FBz

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  I’ve know for a while that the German Linotype headquarters (Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik) building became to be in East Germany, but today I learned that it was *just barely* in East Berlin. By like, only a couple blocks! See the maps that show the Berlin Wall in yellow and pink, which divided the city. HISTORY: After WWII, Linotype moved their HQ down to Frankfurt to be next to D. Stempel, who had been making their brass matrices since 1900. This is why Linotype was eventually in Fra...

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  Just in case you were not aware, @mwichary has put up over 800 (!) scans of various keyboard, typewriter, typesetting, word processing, and digital type reference materials online and there are some *REAL GEMS* in there that have so few views: https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter

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  I’m thrilled to announce the first two (of eight total) articles about the amazing type design work of Tobias Frere-Jones have been published! Read about my point of view and more about the process on my blog. https://realdougwilson.com/writing/writing-for-tobias-frere-jones

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  You know, I write a lot about fonts, but often the most difficult fonts to write about are the ones that I personally like the most. “Look how nice this one is! You should buy it.” somehow isn’t enough for marketing copy?

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  For all my friends in Colorado, this is an important part of our local (and national) history we should know. https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116438831004542947

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  Today’s adventure in running my own business: Calling my bank to fight them over fees for them mailing me a physical letter about wire transfers that I already know about because this is the year 2026.