hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #639 (2025-04-15): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy — due to DOGE] Typography Tuesday covers a study questioning I-beam designs using typeface cross-sections, the manicule’s historical significance as a symbol, and a modern sans serif font, Ronzino, contrasting with Arial in design and functionality.

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  • Drop #634 (2025-04-08): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution of smart quotes and accent marks in typography, highlighting their historical context and modern usage. It also introduces the Style Manual, which provides guidance on British and American English punctuation, and features the DT Hebrinks typeface, a free serif font. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of…

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  • Drop #632 (2025-04-01): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy] typographic edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typography in the series Severance. It also features two silly, but fun 🍜 fonts. The Drops are mysterious and important.

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  • Bonus Drop #80 (2025-03-30): Shameless

    The Weekend [Shameless] Bonus Drop showcases a spiffy accessible color palette generator, a project that will help turn the “news” into a research corpus, and some updates on various personal projects.

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  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.

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  • Drop #623 (2025-03-18): Typography^WResistance Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance.

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  • Drop #619 (2025-03-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric Drop highlights Mixfont, a font generator for visualizing typeface pairings; Words of Type, a multilingual encyclopedia providing expert typography terms and community access; and Fleckled, a digital archive preserving letterpress fonts for modern designers, emphasizing authenticity and handcrafted quality.

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  • Drop #617 (2025-03-07): Themeless

    The Friday Drop highlights Xit, an experimental version control system built in Zig, and advocates for the use of text labels to improve user interface clarity. It also showcases a creative interpretation of the “Bad Apple” animation using SSH key randomart images.

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  • Drop #613 (2025-02-27): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris’ 1766 color theory work.

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  • Drop #612 (2025-02-25): Typopgraphy Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features Tendrilis, a script replacing the Latin alphabet with vine-like characters. It also takes a look at the serif revolution, and features two “instrumental” (free) fonts.

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