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  I just backed Rajie Cook documentary on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/valentinacanavesio/rajie-cook-documentary

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  I was gonna say Anthropic Serif looks a bit too close to Tiempos but then I realised the typeface is by Chester Jenkins (under the name BSPK). So it's an edit of Galaxie Copernicus.

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  These Chinese characters from a paper on typesetting Chinese (using Metafont) with LaTeX lol https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-3/wong.pdf

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  ok now i really need to migrate my font explorer library

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  @beomdolee@x.com made a 1-v-1 blind vote arena for Korean fonts and Pretendard (derived from Inter + Source Han Sans and M PLUS 1p) came out on top: https://typedia.kr/labs/sans/

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  Does anyone know what this serif face is used in the credits of season 2 of Beef?

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  Charcuterie: A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters by similarity. By David Aerne. https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/

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  Tekagi, a handwriting animation library for the web by Kurt Gokhan. https://gkurt.com/tegaki/

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  A nice tool to compare CJK character between regions https://tofu.tools/

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  I don’t know if people here are seeing it but I’m seeing a lot of projects being vibe coded to sort and categorise fonts using AI and it’s clear they are running into the age old problem of “how to to describe and categorise” a font

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  I don’t check mastodon often so I often miss important discussions. It makes me wish there was some sort of algorithmic timeline function to show me at least when there are active discussions going on. These look interesting https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo/index.html https://github.com/fediway/fediway

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  Wonder if anyone knows the typeface used here for 'DIAGRAMS' in the title page of graphis diagrams.

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  I know the y2k revival was never serious because no one decided to try make using FF Meta cool

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  I saw graffiti talking about “Big Emoji” but the funny thing is big emoji really exists that’s unicode consortium…

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  ran into someone at a party who was telling me about a font called Atkinson Hyperlegible and that its super legible 🫩

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  From @s3ththompson “ "swiss-style" / flattersatz ragged text on the web... pretext makes it easy to explore different tradeoffs / constraints around tracking / word spacing / glyph sizing https://seththompson.com/labs/flattersatz/ ” Pretext is a recently released TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout that bypasses DOM measurements: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

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  I think if someone built a letterboxd for fonts people would use it

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  I question the decision to host this year's ATypI conference in the US – is ATypI going to give advice on getting into the US safely?

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  Reminder not to keep any UFO files in Dropbox... there's a 300,000 file limit before performance becomes severely degraded.

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  Does anyone know anything about the broken slash that sometimes appears in precomposed fractions – whether there was a clear first precedent, or if it goes back to metal?

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  I never hear font people talk about slug library but it seems like this is a big deal? https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116246269642882875