Kid tested…mother approved
Going to be a zippy little alt-glyph!
Could this be a closeup of the asterisk from a project that started as a revival and is turning into a more contemporary re-imagination of a rounded gothic from the 15th Century? Maybe. Lots of updates on the way.
Murder Over New York, 1940
Overheard (twittercepted?) Nick Sherman and Aaron Carámbula having a twitter conversation today about typographic indexes or manicules – from the Latin root ‘manus’ for ‘hand’. Wikipedia tells me that other names for the symbol include printer’s fist, bishop’s fist, digit, mutton-fist and pointing hand. A link from Nick back on twitter led me to this ☝ photo of a manicule from Belladonna by Alexandra Korolkova. There’s a flickr group pool with over a thousand manicule related items – incredible. Seems like something Keith Houston would research and write about over on Shady Characters.
The perfect business card by Kris Sowersby of Klim Type Foundry. Set in Pitch – a custom typeface designed for Klim use only under direction from The International Office.
NNTR
Found an acronym that I might actually use without cringing via swissmiss. It’s from Chris Anderson’s Email Charter.
Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR
If your email message can be expressed in half a dozen words, just put it in the subject line, followed by EOM (= End of Message). This saves the recipient having to actually open the message. Ending a note with “No need to respond” or NNTR, is a wonderful act of generosity. Many acronyms confuse as much as help, but these two are golden and deserve wide adoption.
