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Inspirational talk on ADLaM—An African Alphabet Adventure
Craig Cornelius gave an introduction to the ADLaM script and its history with stories of how he got involved plus his recent attendance at the 3rd ADLaM Conference in Mamou, Guinea, 5–8 January 2018. Over 800 people attended the conference from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Mauritania and Chad to Liberia, plus Angola, Kuwait, Belgium, Spain, USA, and beyond. After Craig’s presentation, Ibrahima & Abdoulaye Barry (creators of the ADLaM script) joined in via video chat for the question and answer part of the evening. They started creating the script in 1989 when they were ages 10 and 14. Continue reading
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Tagged adlam, Africa, IMUG, typeface
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Type Design Conferences
There are a number of great type design & typography related conferences happening around the world, these days. Several conferences coming up include: TypeCon (@typecon, @typesociety)— 23–27 August 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 1–5 August 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA. My TypeCon trip reports: … Continue reading
TypeCon 2015 Conference Trip Report
TypeCon (@typecon / @typesociety) was held in Denver, Colorado, USA, 12–16 August 2015. Though attendance seemed lighter this year, it was another great conference. Lots of good folk, past attendees, and ones at their first TypeCon. In between TypeCon and finishing up this … Continue reading
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Tagged design, fonts, typeface, typography
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TypeCon 2014 Conference Trip Report
27 Jun 2015 Update: Registration is now open for TypeCon 2015: Condensed, 12–16 August 2015 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Save $50 by first becoming a member of SOTA. Check out the great workshops and a preview of the program! Hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, design, fonts, IBM 1403, typeface, typography
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Survey: Opinions on Music Notation & Scores
One of my next projects will be designing quality music symbol fonts. Getting back to my roots, so to speak. My first foray into type design 20+ years ago was working on music notation software research and development projects. The … Continue reading
Font Aid VII: The Philippines — the sun glyph I submitted
In November 2013, the Society of Typographic Aficionados (@typesociety) organized Font Aid VII: The Philippines. This project will produce a symbol typeface of images based on the eight-rayed sun of the Philippine flag, submitted by type designers from around the world. Sales of … Continue reading
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Tagged fontaid, redcross, sota, typeface, typesociety, typhoon haiyan, typography
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TypeCon 2013 Conference Trip Report
Another great type design conference happened in Portland, Oregon, August 2013: TypeCon 2013: portl&. I ended up not taking as many notes, this year, so this trip report may be less extensive than the TypeCon 2012 trip report. The weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, design, fonts, IBM 1403, typeface, typography
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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Vietnamese added)
I added a first pass at uppercase Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) to my IBM 1403 inspired monospace typeface. So, now, what started as a combination of the 52 characters represented by the A & H chains of the IBM 1403 printer has … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, fonts, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, monospace, monospaced, typeface, typography, vietnamese
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IBM 1403 inspired typeface update (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)
I’ve been busy. As a break, I added a first pass at uppercase Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to the IBM 1403 inspired typeface. There are fun challenges in fitting these scripts into a fixed width (especially one set initially for … Continue reading
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Tagged computer history, cyrillic, fonts, greek, hebrew, IBM, IBM 1401, IBM 1403, monospaced, typeface, typography
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TYPOSF 2013 Conference Trip Report
On 10-11 April 2013, I attended the TYPOSF 2013 conference (@typosf) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (@ybca) in San Francisco, California. It was more of a design conference with a side of type design. Though I’m more interested in the … Continue reading
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