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OpenAI wanting the US government to take 5% is not "democratization" or something, it's a bailout. OpenAI can't get the money from private investors or the stock market and needs the hole in their budget filled so they are trying to take US tax dollars.

Ooh! It looks like Safari/Webkit might finally join the club of browsers that let your fine-tune font metrics!

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/68431

This'll give you control over:

- ascent-override
- descent-override
- line-gap-override

I hope this PR lands. The issue for it has been open for almost six years: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219735

#typography #fonts #webdev

New on the Blog: A survey of type used on the website of the People’s House doubles as a capsule view of web designers’ evolving professional identity.

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/78453/the-typography-of-whitehouse-gov-2000-2026

#PoliticalDesign #POTUS #Typography #WebDesign #DesignHistory #USPolitics #FontsInUse

Watching the #worldcup on the Fox One app is its own special kind of hell only available in America… Since Disney bought all the fun stuff (The Simpsons, Bobs Burgers, everything on FX, etc) the only thing on the Fox app is the World Cup and Fox News content.

“Like watching the world come together in joyous unity? Next, why not watch two of the most divisive Americans ‘hang out’?”

This would not have been possible without @typesupply, who answered my *countless* questions about the underlying frameworks.
Also, thanks to @justvanrossum @typemytype and @letterror for writing such amazing code that I could reference:)

@MatterOfSorts and I have been developing a new tool for @RoboFont over the past 6 months. Its called Spaceport — its essentially Space Center, FontGoggles, and Superpolator in one small package. It is not meant to replace any of these other tools but instead gives you an interface for quickly accessing some of that functionality.
The beta is live on github now and coming to mechanic in the new few weeks.
https://github.com/connordavenport/spaceport-ext

If you’re in NYC, head over to The Cooper Union where @greg is giving a talk one hour from now about non-linear type families and their conception. It’s free and open to the public.

Details and RSVP here: https://coopertype.org/events/family-planning

The main Typographics conference is now over, but the greater Typographics festival continues for 3 more days, with in-person TypeLab events (https://2026.typographics.com/typelab/) and Book Fair (https://2026.typographics.com/book_fair/) today, plus a free public lecture with @greg on Monday (https://coopertype.org/events/family-planning), and even more workshops and tours (https://2026.typographics.com/workshops/).

Every year @Typographics outdoes itself, setting the bar even higher for a joyful, diverse, and inspiring conference — filled with good friends and new faces, all positively coming together for the joy of design and its community. Thank you Cara, Sacha, and everyone that makes it happen! I am so grateful this takes place in my backyard every year and I will never take it for granted.

A #VariableFont with a sine wave and variable harmonics. And including some clipping ;)

For those of you who don't follow AI and programming, Claude Code came out in May 2025.

Imagine showing Plugin Manager in Glyphs for the first time in class and this is the first option 🥲

“I’m here to tell you Riso printing is all about laundering bad [quality] images into good images” Kelli Anderson @Typographics

“Type contains the history of the world in microcosm” Kelli Anderson @Typographics

GRAPHIC DESIGN. I hope the boats know what these mean. Seems a lot to take in.

Today is the first day of events for this year’s Typographics festival, with multiple free events at The Cooper Union in NYC starting at 5pm:

1️⃣ Exhibition opening for “ECAL A Typographic Atlas”, with a selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL students from around the world.

2️⃣ Exhibition opening for “Since Type@Coooper” with examples of work produced by the graduates of @coopertype programs.

3️⃣ A lecture to accompany the ECAL exhibition as part of @lubalincenter’s Lubalin Lecture Series.

Tonight’s exhibitions and lecture are all free and open to the public. Details and RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecal-a-typographic-atlas-and-since-typecooper-openings-and-lecture-tickets-1991513203602

For other upcoming Typographics events, including the main conference at the end of the week, check the schedule overview:
https://2026.typographics.com/schedule/

I’m making a Game Boy Advance type editor, anyone would be interested in testing it?!@daytonamess already have the current version but I would love to have some more feedbacks on the UI and features! I’m currently testing it on mGBA but would be nice if someone could test it on actual hardware or handheld.

My pre-ASCII art / pictorial typography / text art archive site is out now!

People have been making ASCII-like text art on letterpress for over 300 years, building pictures entirely out of metal type, ornaments, and rule. The practice has often been dismissed as "tasteless", "wasted effort" and "nothing to do with art", which is why I think it's gone largely undocumented. So, I've spent the last 8+ years collecting ~2500 of these works into an archive. Thanks to @adelfaure, who developed the site, it's now online for everyone to browse:
https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/
or read more about it at https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?essay

I received my first typo.social themed phishing mail 🐟💣💩.
To be clear: typo.social will never send you password reminders like this. I assume it is part of a wider attack on Fediverse accounts. #warning #phishing #fediverse