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Palaeographic Pen Pals. Amateur Archivists. Type Foundry/Skriftforlag.
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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.
Condensed Garland is jam-packed with-eye catching details. Which character is your favorite?
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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… which is about as far as you can come from riffing on local cultural expression for the purpose of consumption by an international design audience.
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 [...]”
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
Planning an outing to Amsterdam > Haag > 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!
Letter from William Morris to Mrs Morris, 1 November 1848.
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@jla@typo.social * Note: I am not well versed enough in Unicode practice to know how they deal with changing casing rules.
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@jla@typo.social I have used a feature to convert ß to ss for small caps because WebKit doesn’t do that properly. InDesign applies the casing before triggering the feature, and nicely strips out many-to-one in the default paragraph composer. For case, ß has always mapped to SS without any bugs on the software side (which will change if Unicode redefines). I would be curious to hear what kind of features you are using!
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@jla@typo.social Wouldn’t the casing behaviour depend on external software, and not the font?