3D printing is cool. 3D printing in the nineteenth century? Even better. Computerised 3D printing with 19th-century hardware? π Read about two different approaches to modernising the Monotype system in the Shady Characters archive: https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2012/06/shiny-characters/ and https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2013/11/hand-eye/.
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Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and now FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI ( https:// shadycharacters.co.uk/books/ ). Personal account at https:// mstdn.social/@orkneydullard .
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Shady Characters
@shadychars@mastodon.social
Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and now FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI ( https:// shadycharacters.co.uk/books/ ). Personal account at https:// mstdn.social/@orkneydullard .
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