It carries number 200 of 200.

Its title page sports 11 signatures from type designers ranging from young up-and-comers to type celebrities: Stefan Hattenbach, Jean François Porchez, Tomáš Brousil, Nick Shinn, {ths}, Rian Hughes, Randy Jones, Mark Simonson, Peter Bil’ak, Eduardo Manso and David Berlow.

All around the forums I continue to hear rumblings about font explorer x. I've started to download it a few times only to realize that I have changed font management tools so many times that, if anything, I'm only about to cause myself more heartache.

People keep saying how fast it is. so, how fast is it? how stable is it. has anyone been using font agent pro and switched and laughed out loud at the improvement?

I grew up on ATM. I've used Suitcase, Masterjuggler, Font Reserve and even tried to work with Font Book.

Yes, I still miss ATM. Kinda sad really. I don't miss the UI.

besides type i am obsessed with food. imagine that. in fact i'm currently working of my first book project for myself it it is going to be a book of family recipes. quite appropriate, i'd say, bringing together food and type.
but all this isn't what i really wanted to talk about. i was at the grocery store the other day and noticed a new magazine by my favorite TV food personality, Rachael Ray. i just love magazines, but a few years back i was heart broken when my favorite design mag, One, was pulled after just one year's run. i'd be inconsolable if it happened again, so i'm sending out a plea for ya'll to check this one out, and if you feel so inclined, pick up a subscription so this one stays afloat and i won't be busted up.

I would normally not resort to such childish titles -- forgive me -- but it seemed worth it this time.

For those of you who don't want to pay for Ecto -- I did and really like it -- check out Flock. It has -- among its plentiful promises of playtime -- a blogging tool. Yipee!

Been doing some housecleaning on my vast collection of images (just rolled over the 10,000 mark on my Sony camera), and found these type themed pieces. Now to have fun celebrating the inline image display!

Not everyone wants an "O" on their peghead, but this particular Mr. O did. James did this inlay in mother of pearl.

Mother of pearl "D" on the workbench before inlaying. This one was drawn by Susan and cut by Mike.

This is a regular request, a cut out slab of mother of pearl (done with a hair-line saw blade and small drills), refilled with a mixture of ebony dust and epoxy. Susan draws the letters, and James did these inlays.

For those of you who think that all web sites should be hosted on the www sub-domain, but have been unceremoniously logged out of Typophile while doing so: the problem has been fixed. All you need to do is clear your cookies from typophile.com and www.typophile.com. The new session cookies will be from .typophile.com which will keep you logged in on any sub-domain of Typophile. In fact, you can look at Typophile on nearly any sub-domain you can think of, switching willy-nilly from one page to another.

What do I do now Captain Kirk!? We're running out of power! Should I interrobang it!?

That's affirmative Scotty!

Can you hear me Mother?

Yup, it's today. I started the thread GMT.

I already occupy enough places to ramble amidst the ether without filling up this page as well. However, for a bite-sized review of what I'm all about, try this for starters.

This is fairly cool. The UI is self-explanatory. However, I wonder if this will really make me want to post more to the blog area. Most of the thoughts I have which aren't Typophile friendly still don't qualify as Uppercase Blog friendly either. And I really don't want to talk about EULAs here too. :^}

This is cool though. I can add the song I'm currently listening to. The Long Goodbye from the album “A Girl Called Eddy” by A Girl Called Eddy

If you think that browsers are good for reading blog entries, but lousy for writing, raise your hand. Just what I thought. We're all in agreement here. The good news is that there is a better way. There are a number of email-like clients for writing blogs out there, and it just so happens that they will work with the Uppercase blogs. You can also use them to submit news stories. I'm going to quickly walk through the set-up process on one of the better clients I've found.

The one I'm going to use for this tutorial is Ecto. It's cross platform, and it's the best I've found so far.

Seems to work as editor.

Some good things are going on here with the Typophile codebase, not the least of which is inline image uploads. Only a few more things/bugs to check off our list before we can take the beta stripe off. To use the new image upload features you will need the Flash 8 player. Once you have it installed you will see an "Insert image" link on the post form. It's got a progress bar, no pop-ups, and no page reloads! Trust me, that's cool. On the downside, I'm sure we'll have to hear some whining about flash. Oh well. For Uppercase members, you might try editing your blog with ecto or any number of other blogging clients. More on this later.

Tomáš Brousil says.: 'After one and half year of an intensive work we ( Suitcase ) have just released the new superfamily font Dederon. A serif version of the Dederon is a humanist book antique with open shapes. A sans serif version comes out the same construction principles, hence it is sortable for a demanding combined typography. Fonts are available in a postscript but at last also in an opentype format. Each Dederon OpenType Std weight includes standard latin accented glyphs for over fourteen languages, wide range of basic and accented ligatures, genuine small capitals, non-aligning, capital, small capital, table, fractional and index numeral characters, expert glyphs and alternative variations, together more than 800 glyphs in one type face for comfortable work on the most demanding projects..'

Take a look at these beautiful and cute promotional posters from the Chinese Space Program.

As a commentary, it's interesting to see the ones with clearly Chinese imagery (the Great Wall, bow and arrow, toddler with Panda, etc.) juxtaposed with posters that took all their cues from Russian communist propaganda (workers united in exuberant cheering holding red flags).

Via Boing Boing.

Having lived in LA for a couple years during my youth I encountered KCRW, a public (non-commercial) radio station based out of Santa Monica College that happens to have a consistently excellent music show, Morning Becomes Eclectic with host Nic Harcourt. The show always involves the band coming in the studio for a live 40 minute session.

Well, they've always had Real Audio streams (which have had sub-par quality over the years) but they've recently made the show available as a Podcast (Link requires iTunes).

Ну штож!
I've been a Slavophile since i began taking Russian language classes in the 8th grade. I just love the culture: it is truly something that samples the best from its neigbors on the east as well as those from the west. I've been a typophile since right around the same time. I remember my mother purchasing a pack of fonts with (not our first) computer back about the same time I began taking Russian classes. I was fascinated with the little catalog of fonts and i've been inflicted with fontlust ever since.
It's no wonder that these two loves should intersect, but i'm afraid i've only been able to skim the surface of Russian type design. This is kind of funny to me because my full-on font design obsession was kick-started when my little bro asked me to write him a letter in Russian for a friend to translate for him and I started looking at cyrillic fonts. However, i was just looking at some free stuff.

My (very late) report of TypeCon2005 is up at typographer.org.

Incidentally David reminded me with his Digest why I just love to be teamed up with him. Not that I needed to be reminded, but still...

File under: "I didn't think anybody would notice."

I got a chuckle when I noticed that the Mac Mini page at Apple is using some Front 242 lyrics for catchy subheads. (I think it's from their track "Headhunter".) Funny.

Anyone who loves little kittens as well as -- or as much as -- Led Zeppelin, might find a lot of humor in this:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~mharp/viking_kittens/VikingKitten.htm

Stewf spotted me being very useless after helping set up the FiFFteen exhibition. The red T-shirt is Stefan Hattenbach's "Who needs Helvetica?" MacRhino/Fountain joint venture.

The Tiger Widget, Figlet, generates ascii text in about 9 different styles. You type in the word and it generates the ascii. It's fantastic. It offers the convenience of adding the text to your clipboard so all you need to do is paste it into your app.

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Eye candy for letterpress fans.

http://elsa.photo.net/video/firefly-small.mov

Shhh. Don't tell anybody.

http://www.typophile.com/uppercase

Look for a formal announcement soon where we'll announce that all the past threads have been restored.