Dunwich Type Founders

Type design studio in Boulder, Colorado.

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2026-05-25 20:38:09 UTC

What’s the state of typesetting Nastaliq on Mac? Is it just a lost cause until the InPage plugin for Indesign is released?

2026-05-09 23:09:14 UTC

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Okay the bar and denominators are one sort and the numerator sorts are manually positioned on top. There must have been filler sorts to pad out the numerators. God forbid ATF actually explain this in the fucking catalog.

2026-05-09 22:47:33 UTC

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How did they do arbitrary nut fractions in metal?

2026-05-09 22:44:40 UTC

My kid found this in a math textbook from 1903. Aren’t those fractions great?
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2026-05-04 23:00:24 UTC

Maybe selling one off cyberdecks on etsy will be a viable career in the age of AI. If I get rid of all these design books I can fit a workbench in my office.

2026-05-02 19:36:59 UTC

When do crores stop being literal numbers and become abstract big numbers? Big as in most people can’t actually think in trillions so we use scientific notation. Do people think of “10.89 lakh crore” as a literal number or is it a huge number for the purpose of comparing it to last year’s “9.76 lakh crore?”

2026-04-29 20:29:36 UTC

There should be some kind of Nobel Prize for the UX designer that realized we could just use our email addresses as user names.

2026-04-29 01:58:57 UTC

“What does freedom even mean, anyway?”
And then I had to explain the concepts of positive and negative liberty to an eighth grader.

2026-04-27 01:34:53 UTC

AI generated clickbait videos are going to start getting weird in a few years where there are no good ideas left. “Indian hot sauce raisin brain coffee.” “Exercises guaranteed to put you in a hospital where you’ll meet hot doctors.” “Hot guitars designed by Czech luthiers who never actually existed.”

2026-04-20 21:04:11 UTC

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@nprofile…dfhn @nprofile…j074 I already have an appointment scheduled.

2026-04-20 19:02:55 UTC

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@nprofile…j074 my eyesight suddenly got worse last week. Hurts to read worse. Today they’re kind of better. It’s driving me nuts.

2026-04-17 21:45:22 UTC

Compressed thin sans type for the running copy on an eye doctor’s web site.
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2026-04-16 02:42:39 UTC

Am I crazy or is the iOS autocorrect getting markedly worse over the last several updates? It wants to correct proper nouns to other nouns, or other parts of speech, or vice versa, and it goes bonkers with foreign words used in English. It’s driving me back to Android.

2026-04-07 23:26:50 UTC

HORRAY FOR TACOS!

2026-04-03 02:51:39 UTC

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@nprofile…hf2l but even all that isn’t as horrible as the AI slop plagiarized business strategy essays written by people I don’t know that LinkedIn wants me to read.

2026-04-02 17:37:54 UTC

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@nprofile…j074 I’m not planting Lintotype this year. Dealing with all the slugs is too much work.

2026-03-30 19:35:35 UTC

Microsoft is now inserting ads into pull requests on GitHub. I look forward to libre fonts that display “Don’t forget to use your VPN!” In Finder.

2026-03-30 14:02:08 UTC

What’s a good portable audio player that does not come with a browser, a YouTube app, or an app store? I need something for a kid that only plays audio but can actually handle ID3 tags.

2026-03-30 00:54:25 UTC

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@nprofile…7kma @nprofile…j9ph @nprofile…e9hc @nprofile…uvqd I think it was designed by rolling D20s against tables to find out where something should go.

2026-03-29 21:52:17 UTC

Metal shows with lots of openers should operate in reverse. Start with the headliner at 8:00 for people who have stuff to do the next day. Then run the three or four opening acts for people who can get away with being at a show until 1:00.

2026-03-29 21:41:11 UTC

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@nprofile…j9ph @nprofile…e9hc @nprofile…uvqd does System Settings count as an app? Because it’s one of the worst designed UIs I’ve ever seen.

2026-03-29 19:09:50 UTC

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@nprofile…gcwg @nprofile…ckj0 it looks wonderful!

2026-03-28 02:49:53 UTC

It amazes me how much important stuff I’ve read over my life I forgot immediately. But I can tell my son all about the Titan Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

2026-03-27 00:23:21 UTC

When the brief is “make it bland.”
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2026-03-26 22:54:44 UTC

The older I get the better the piano sounds on this song. Sound engineering at its best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTfCaj6beg

2026-03-23 11:10:38 UTC

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@nprofile…gv5f we had Stileproject and EfNet was cool. Today…not so much.

2026-03-22 04:05:45 UTC

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@nprofile…dfhn the problem with getting them in good shape isn’t price, it’s getting them at all. Tagore in Dutch is a rarity on eBay. (I only buy Tagore on eBay because I don’t trust a listing without multiple good photos. I’ve been burned too many times.)
I don’t buy vintage type specimens at all anymore. I lost interest in the whole type specimen thing. The only specimen I’ve bought years was Rian Hughes’ latest kickstarter.

2026-03-22 03:31:39 UTC

Old books I want on eBay.
Spines repaired with duct tape.
Should I buy them for $29.98 knowing it will probably cost me $500 to get them rebound?

2026-03-21 17:57:28 UTC

My AI startup idea: AI agents that constantly collect and install the deluge of OS and software updates that will be the result of everybody moving to vibe coding.

2026-03-20 01:07:48 UTC

One of the book dealers figured out that I don’t need more bookmarks and threw an old photo in the box instead.
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2026-03-19 23:28:55 UTC

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@nprofile…edye ouch. I feel for you, having a sick pet and going broke from it is not fun.

2026-03-19 23:27:52 UTC

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@nprofile…2lvq the obvious answer is to vibe code an app that automatically generates PANOSE data and compiles it into fonts. Then tell Claude to hack MyFonts and DaFont and run it on every font in their systems.

2026-03-19 23:25:36 UTC

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But that’s just wishful thinking. If they used Copilot the algorithm would just change completely every day and make Edge hard lock PCs or something.

2026-03-19 23:24:15 UTC

I know all the programming jobs going to AI sounds horrible but what if the people responsible for the Instagram algorithm were replaced with Copilot and it just went back to a chronological feed?

2026-03-18 20:09:31 UTC

Hmmm…I don’t really have much extra time for reading right now. But there’s an unabridged English translation of the Mahabharata on Amazon. Only 5,933 pages. That’s much shorter than The Horus Heresy.

2026-03-10 16:08:12 UTC

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@nprofile…j074 probably a bad idea. The last time I ended up in a Target bathroom for 30 minutes.

2026-03-10 16:05:20 UTC

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@nprofile…j074 I’ve only had decaf for at least five years. I think that if I had a shot of real espresso my head would explode.

2026-03-05 03:48:05 UTC

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@nprofile…pjhn this is how AI solves climate change. If enough people die carbon output will drop.

2026-02-22 23:30:51 UTC

If you like data viz you will love the interactive graphs in this article: https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/09/russia-china-gas-deals?lang=en

2026-02-20 01:56:58 UTC

For anyone still considering emigrating to the USA, here’s my latest American health care nightmare: My doctor moved from his old practice to a new one at a large hospital. The hospital does not accept my insurance plan. The hospital also does not accept “self-pay.” Which means that I cannot even pay for services myself. My appointment was canceled and now I have to find a new doctor. Think about that before you come to this country.

2026-01-26 01:06:17 UTC

I was on Instagram and…ugh…I remembered why I stopped using it. All the posts from rare book dealers. I have to stop again before I end up with a seventh pile of uncatalogued books to shelve.

2026-01-23 16:20:05 UTC

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@nprofile…7am7 @nprofile…uvqd I know what you mean but I got bored with Latin a long time ago.

2026-01-22 14:01:14 UTC

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@nprofile…uvqd you can. Whether or not the result is actually any good is questionable.

2026-01-22 00:45:29 UTC

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@nprofile…yeul Brilliant.

2026-01-22 00:44:22 UTC

Opened Netflix. There’s my font, title of a cool new movie. People are using it quite a bit these days. I should really release the oblique version I did years ago.
But it would be a lot more fun to do more fonts for writing systems used in other parts of the world that I’ll never see in use because I don’t know the language.

2026-01-21 20:23:54 UTC

We’re going to hit a point at which real photos are shot and edited to look like AI generated images because the AI images are what people will believe photos should look like.

2026-01-20 15:25:15 UTC

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@nprofile…gcwg @nprofile…aswa thanks!

2026-01-19 22:41:49 UTC

Also, DuckDuckGo’s image search algorithm doesn’t know the difference between nudi and nudie.

2026-01-19 22:39:54 UTC

Does Kannada have the same rich and varied lettering tradition as Devangari? I am considering a fact-finding trip to Karnatka but I don’t want to fly halfway around the world and find out that everyone is just using printed vinyl signs with nudi.

2026-01-04 03:33:24 UTC

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It provides more data than I show here. Stuff was clipped off.

2026-01-04 03:01:57 UTC

You can do corpus analysis with Gemini. It works with the KJV, Wikipedia, and some of the free corpora online. It’s pretty cool.
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2026-01-02 23:29:11 UTC

The biggest asshole in the history of design was the fucker who knew damned well that multiplication and division would be written as exponents at tiny sizes, and that the nerds who need to read them typically cannot see well, and then made the signs for those operations hard to distinguish in practical usage.

2025-12-22 02:12:02 UTC

Is there a word for the trepidation that kicks in when you open a package and it’s a book with the cover text set in Arial and you’re afraid that the interior text is in Arial and you’ll have to destroy the book?

2025-12-21 23:07:58 UTC

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@nprofile…yy2c Orion is cool if you only use Apple products. The iOS version does freeze up often but that’s balanced out by the great ad blocking.

2025-12-17 19:34:33 UTC

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@nprofile…wgw9 “You scrolled past 6,000 AI generated essays by people you’ve never heard of!”

2025-12-17 19:02:17 UTC

One of the joys of releasing open-source fonts is that people will integrate them into really big things and not even tell you. You just randomly find out that your work is part of software with millions of users or even an entire operating system.

2025-08-25 00:47:00 UTC

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I dunno. So dumb, but it was fun to draw.
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2025-08-25 00:44:38 UTC

I designed a big dumb rugged display typeface with optical sizes and I can’t decide if I should release it as a DTF font or start a new foundry for big dumb display font releases under a fake name.

2025-08-23 20:56:40 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm you’re avoiding an excuse to go to a library and look at old type specimens?

2025-08-23 04:25:24 UTC

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@nprofile…lfwc it’s a derogatory term MBAs and business journalists like to throw around. Clueless designers think it’s a term of endearment.

2025-08-23 01:50:33 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm lucky bastard.

2025-08-23 00:11:14 UTC

It wasn’t enough to put old style figures in Stymie Italic. I added the x from a fat face. I am never going to finish this.

2025-08-22 22:34:27 UTC

I finally solved a design problem I was struggling with in 2022!

2025-08-22 21:32:36 UTC

I am terribly disappointed to find out that Castle Donington is not actually a castle. I want to use that in a D&D campaign. The players spend days trying to find a castle only to discover it was torn down long ago and now it’s just the town they’ve been avoiding.

2025-08-20 23:03:11 UTC

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@nprofile…azkn friendly, approachable, and childish is a great description of the bulk of the Eurovision performances. This design seems entirely appropriate.

2025-08-20 16:01:45 UTC

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@nprofile…mjt5 hopefully you haven’t already kerned it.

2025-08-20 00:47:21 UTC

I want more typographic tattoos but I don’t want to do one on my head. Would it be too weird if I had my head tattooed to look like an Alex Grey painting?

2025-08-20 00:32:18 UTC

Would it be excessive to make a quick trip out to NYC just to spend two days walking around The Village and Alphabet City and eating street meat and Mister Frosty in Union Square after dark? And of course swing by The Strand and Argosy.

2025-08-19 01:14:57 UTC

On a related note, please convince me that it’s stupid to buy books in languages that I don’t know just because the title page is pretty.

2025-08-19 01:13:04 UTC

Normal person: I can’t find this rare book in the local library or on Amazon. Guess I’ll go watch TV.
Academic: I can’t find this book in the university library or on Amazon. I’ll arrange an inter-library loan.
Type Nerd: I want this rare book. I’ll just buy it and maybe one day I’ll be able to afford a bigger house with room for more shelves so I can stop double stacking everything.

2025-08-14 21:35:38 UTC

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@nprofile…gqk6 they make six figure salaries by working overtime. And buy lots of military grade equipment that they never use.

2025-08-14 18:37:49 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm I was working in an office building once and a fighter pilot buzzed the building. It was pretty scary.

2025-08-11 21:51:51 UTC

After working with Webflow for a while I really appreciate Wordpress.

2025-08-04 18:59:51 UTC

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@nprofile…4u37 Now we’re going to get support emails asking why o keeps getting tucked under T.

2025-08-04 18:58:39 UTC

It is really weird getting emails from local music venues and seeing my typefaces in the images.

2025-07-27 20:18:38 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm Whoah!

2025-07-25 22:58:20 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm not to mention how much fun it is to listen to audio dramas for three days.

2025-07-24 23:38:56 UTC

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@nprofile…s6kw @nprofile…n90q this is why Microsoft is developing underwater oceanic data centers.

2025-07-23 21:40:48 UTC

I want to make a plugin that would communicate with an Arduino to shoot electricity into a VU meter whenever I export a font.

2025-07-22 20:49:05 UTC

At Ozzfest 1997 they played Beavis and Butthead on the big screens between the Sabbath and Ozzy sets. I was sitting on the lawn smoking weed with two hippies. We ran out of weed and one of the hippies smiled, reached up his pants leg, and tore his fucking leg off. I was freaking out. But it was a prosthetic; he reached into it and pulled out a huge bag of weed. I was stoned as fuck when Ozzy went on. That was the first time I saw Ozzy.

2025-07-22 20:43:15 UTC

At least I got to say goodbye.
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2025-07-22 02:43:17 UTC

1) Apple weather
2) I only started using it in January. It is laughably bad about telling me if it is or is not raining. Especially when it tells me that the rain will stop in X minutes.

2025-07-21 15:05:19 UTC

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@nprofile…8e4c blasphemy. Sitka is awesome.

2025-07-20 02:21:22 UTC

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@nprofile…gdrs I’m considering that. I might take it to Staples on Monday.

2025-07-18 20:07:02 UTC

Are there any sheet feed scanners that can do 300+ DPI scans well? I have a type specimen with a screw binding that I want to unscrew and scan. But it’s hundreds of pages so I’m not going to do it manually.

2025-07-17 23:27:12 UTC

Gibson nitro finishes smell better than Fender’s. But there’s something more inviting about the gloss of Fender’s.

2025-07-15 17:29:50 UTC

Taylor Swift patches are a thing. And so are pink denim jackets. I am going to make the best battle vest ever.

2025-07-14 21:41:59 UTC

AI Slop of the day: “You’ll also want to exclusively use the neck pickup on your P bass.”

2025-07-12 16:27:06 UTC

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@nprofile…2c9e Adobe did a proportionally spaced Japanese typeface. I don’t remember its name.

2025-07-11 14:59:19 UTC

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@nprofile…p4d8 Arnold Böcklin

2025-07-10 22:55:22 UTC

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@nprofile…y0zq I miss Solaris 7 all the time.

2025-07-06 11:19:30 UTC

Years ago I realeased a typeface named Armitage. Nobody ever told me who else uses the name.
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2025-07-06 09:58:02 UTC

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@nprofile…cnga technically most of the individuals are bands. Bands of ghostwriters and anonymous session players. We’re back to the Motown era of pop music

2025-07-05 23:08:45 UTC

Sorry I can’t see any UK friends on this trip. I’ll try coming back to your wonderful country next year.

2025-07-05 23:06:11 UTC

Ozzy Osbourne, one last time.
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2025-07-05 20:48:30 UTC

Ozzy pulled it off! And it was worth the trip to see him smile again.

2025-07-05 17:35:52 UTC

If you are not at the stadium in Birmingham today you are missing out on the best concert ever.

2025-07-04 17:58:45 UTC

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@nprofile…w92h it’s not too late for you to drive up to Phantom Fireworks in Wyoming and buy supplies to craft an effigy.

2025-07-02 20:51:27 UTC

Digital Frontier is an excellent magazine. Content wise it’s thoughtful tech stuff, like reading Wired 25+ years ago. Design wise it’s wild and forward thinking without getting objectionably ugly.
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2025-07-02 18:57:53 UTC

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@nprofile…6y8y I see two reasons. First, many graphic designers are so bad with computers that they’re put off by having to choose a server.
Second, the Fediverse can be hostile to self-promotion and advertising. I think some designers see social media primarily as a way to promote themselves. Those people will stick to Linkedin and Instagram.