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Hello! If you're new here, I'd like you to comment below with • your name • your location • your favourite typeface • anything else you'd like to share
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About the journey to the Typographic North
Hello type enthusiasts! I am Kristen, the creator of this community. I've made this place for all of us to have distraction-free, interesting and fruitful conversations about typography, type design, book design, publication design and related matters. I've been looking for such a community for years but found alternatives very noisy and dispersed. So I've decided to build this one. I hope you will join me in creating something great. Years ago I embarked on a journey towards writing a newsletter about my musings on typography, but a busy life, lack of focus and probably a fair amount of insecurity halted my progress. My hope now is that onboarding more people with similar interests will help me (and everyone here) to develop thoughts on these subjects. So, it's a journey we make together. I do not know where the winds take us but I hope that we can have informal discussions, share what we're working on, link to inspirational resources and learn from each other on our voyage. Please feel free to make posts about anything you believe is relevant to the group, and comment on other posts to create an engaging community of type friends. And if you have type friends out there, please invite them into this group, so we'll have more people to learn from. See you in the discussions! All the best, Kristen ––– Rules for this group: • Be positive. Constant nay-saying isn't helpful. By all means, be critical, but stay constructive. • No promotions, spammy posts or unsolicited direct messages • Make an effort. When commenting, use more than one word. • Keep it relevant. Posts must be reasonably related to type, design or creative arts. See something you don't like or find noisy? Please report such content to the admin. https://www.skool.com/typographicnorth/-/rules
Monospace: the technical specialist
Every letter occupies an identical width. What appears rigid serves a precise purpose – code that aligns perfectly, tables that maintain structure, and technical documentation where spacing matters absolutely. Courier. Consolas. Monaco. The workhorses of programmers and technical writers. Often overlooked, yet essential to our digital world. Personally, I don’t use monospaced typefaces, other than perhaps OpenType tabular lining figures in tables and such. Do you have any use for these types of fonts?
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Oversized typewriter ball head
I stumbled upon this typewriter ball art this weekend. I haven’t actually seen one of these in real life, but it’s an interesting technology. Nice to see the type and various impressions around it. Have anyone here used a typewriter with this kind of ball head?
Oversized typewriter ball head
Display: the attention seeker
These are typography's performers – letterforms designed to be seen from across the room, to stop the eye, to make a statement. Film posters. Book covers. Headlines that demand notice. Display fonts sacrifice readability for personality. They work best in small doses, at large sizes, where their distinctive character can shine without overwhelming the reader. They can be quite decorative, or a special cut of a text face. Either way, they don’t work too well in small sizes (for instance, on a book page).
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Typographic North
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