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RE: https://mas.to/@dnanian/117018254706425431 Insta-buy, one of my all time fav

RE: https://mas.to/@dnanian/117018254706425431 Insta-buy, one of my all time favorite Mac apps gets a huge update. 👏 🎉

Now I just assume anytime I read the word “quietly” in a headline it was written

Now I just assume anytime I read the word “quietly” in a headline it was written with AI.

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116920019244550059 I spend more time

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116920019244550059 I spend more time than I like thinking about AI use across the design field, how quickly so many have slid into comfort with their use, and what we’re trading now for an unwritten future. I have more feelings about it than useful thoughts, but it’s helpful to see how others are actively thinking about it (including stances I don’t agree

Dang, sad to hear that the Dropbox client Maestral is being retired. I had been

Dang, sad to hear that the Dropbox client Maestral is being retired. I had been putting off switching and got accustomed to using it in place of Dropbox's UI. Looks like I'll need to move before long. I've always mistrusted iCloud after losing data years ago, but maybe it's ok now? I'd also looked at pCloud and Proton Drive, but didn't dig deep. Anything out there feel simple and seamless like Dro

🎉 Looks like the Glyphs 4 public preview is available for download: https://gly

🎉 Looks like the Glyphs 4 public preview is available for download: https://glyphsapp.com/buy

Heading to NYC for the Typographics conference. Come say hi, I’ll have a stack o

Heading to NYC for the Typographics conference. Come say hi, I’ll have a stack of these stickers to share ✌️ https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/making-stickers

“I can’t see the future, but I can state a blindingly obvious thing. None of the

“I can’t see the future, but I can state a blindingly obvious thing. None of these are questions about technology. These are all questions about work: what it might look like in the future and, most importantly, whether or not the person asking will even have a place in that future.” Nodding along as usual to the latest from @beep, who is consistently writing thoughtful reflections on the cost of

Also, the ’86 Transformers movie is coming back to theaters this fall on "The Ap

Also, the ’86 Transformers movie is coming back to theaters this fall on "The Apology Tour" 😂 https://www.fathomentertainment.com/transformers40thanniversaryhub/

I’m lousy at pinball, but I still love the Transformers from my youth 🤖: https:

I’m lousy at pinball, but I still love the Transformers from my youth 🤖: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQMfllXOFKA

It’s a banner week for web friends’ personal sites! @beep Redesigned his site an

It’s a banner week for web friends’ personal sites! @beep Redesigned his site and there are heaps of nice details: view transitions, background scroll-y secrets, and visited link styles (remember those). Made with the same care as his writing: https://ethanmarcotte.com/ @nazhamid Revived his old photo blog, Absenter. Beautiful photos in a quiet viewing gallery that shifts its colors towards the pi

Why is the camera person slowly shifting their weight between their left and rig

Why is the camera person slowly shifting their weight between their left and right feet? Can someone please get them a stool or

*Obviously, a high-res display is doing some work here too.

*Obviously, a high-res display is doing some work here too.

I was catching up on @letterror’s notes for his recent Action Grotesque and marv

I was catching up on @letterror’s notes for his recent Action Grotesque and marveling at the 5pt(!) text captions (rendered as 6.66667px). It’s “legible” for me, but that’s also relative (I still need to lean close). It’s wonderfully bonkers that this looks so crisp! I don’t think this sizing makes sense for screen use outside of a specimen display, but such a flex of fantastic design down to a mi

📣 I recently made stickers for Loud Room and went down a rabbit hole finding th

📣 I recently made stickers for Loud Room and went down a rabbit hole finding the right printer. If you are looking to make stickers, I have some recommendations! https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/making-stickers

Fascinating deep research on the origins of Lorem Ipsum. Lots here I didn’t know

Fascinating deep research on the origins of Lorem Ipsum. Lots here I didn’t know, including that there were so many holes in its history. We’ve had it all wrong! What a fun ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4 Plus a @BijouType cameo!

Interesting peek at @letterformarchive’s upcoming collection of scans of drawing

Interesting peek at @letterformarchive’s upcoming collection of scans of drawings, print outs, and materials from development of Emigre’s fonts. Eve Scarborough led the effort and also shares thoughts on how material like this is becoming scarce these days as so much of the design process is obscured in digital workflows. https://letterformarchive.org/news/from-the-collection-emigre-font-developme

RE: https://typo.social/@JTDType/116647058608051191 Enfilade is a fantastic cond

RE: https://typo.social/@JTDType/116647058608051191 Enfilade is a fantastic condensed sans serif family by @JTDType, now with 5 tailored optical sizes. 😍

I’m looking for some new t-shirt designs. I lean towards silkscreened prints ove

I’m looking for some new t-shirt designs. I lean towards silkscreened prints over digital, generally not big brand stuff, usually more design/art/abstract/restuarants/games. Send me your favorite recs!

RE: https://typo.social/@Typographics/116568227604486942 Typographics Conference

RE: https://typo.social/@Typographics/116568227604486942 Typographics Conference early bird tickets available until this Friday! I’ll be attending this year ✌️

A fix I stumbled on: If you turn off the palettes via menus (Window > Generate,

A fix I stumbled on: If you turn off the palettes via menus (Window > Generate, etc) they don’t seem to persist between sessions. I had been right-clicking on the palettes and selecting "Close", which has a different behavior for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

I like this overlapping type treatment throughout the NYT’s feature on the great

I like this overlapping type treatment throughout the NYT’s feature on the greatest living American songwriters. It works particularly well with their heavier Franklin Gothic, and I appreciate that they did it with live text. (Lots of contributors for the feature, but unfortunately, no designer credited) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/magazine/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.html

Pica, a new (to me) font management app for Mac OS by Josh Puckett looks awesome

Pica, a new (to me) font management app for Mac OS by Josh Puckett looks awesome. Especially the feature to drop in an image and see all of your font samples next to it (for font searching during logo design). https://pica.joshpuckett.me/ (Unfortunately, seems to require Tahoe right now)

Another plaintext wireframe tool, lots more prefab objects and export options to

Another plaintext wireframe tool, lots more prefab objects and export options too. I love these things! https://wiretext.app/

And perhaps just as worrying, investors think this is extremely good. This is al

And perhaps just as worrying, investors think this is extremely good. This is all normal and sustainable and normal: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html

Relevant resource from @kyleford! https://byedoom.com/ Get an RSS feed for any p

Relevant resource from @kyleford! https://byedoom.com/ Get an RSS feed for any public social account. If one doesn’t exist, they’ll make one. 🙌 Found via @glass, who has an awesome RSS feed ❤️ (https://chrisglass.com/)

📢 BTW № 5 — RSS is still one of the best opt-in relationships ever invented. He

📢 BTW № 5 — RSS is still one of the best opt-in relationships ever invented. Here are some picks from my feeds across fonts, history, and space! Reciprocal RSS links provided where available. https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/btw-5-simply-syndicated-edition

RE: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/116381192997863104 I use Wakamai Fondue al

RE: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/116381192997863104 I use Wakamai Fondue all the time when designing fonts or digging into details when using fonts. So useful! 👏

My favorite* Adobe thing is when I open Indesign and it ignores my saved workspa

My favorite* Adobe thing is when I open Indesign and it ignores my saved workspace profile and just opens a bunch of extra palettes. *it’s actually the worst

I’ve always loved this local building supply company logo, mostly because I feel

I’ve always loved this local building supply company logo, mostly because I feel like I’ve spent my whole design life wrangling Js in logos for myself. And this one has a spectacular j! I just noticed they seem to have closed down all locations by me. I still think about this logo when I go by the old spots, I don’t think I ever saw one smaller than like 10ft tall.

A friend recommended The Protomen’s latest album (Act III: This City Made Us) an

A friend recommended The Protomen’s latest album (Act III: This City Made Us) and I’ve had it on repeat all week. Syths + conceptual rock opera + guitar solos? check check check Once I can put this one aside I’m going to listen to Act II. https://theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-iii-this-city-made-us

Oh wow, this is awesome! An ASCII wireframe editor that’s quick and fun to use,

Oh wow, this is awesome! An ASCII wireframe editor that’s quick and fun to use, and you can also grab what you make as Markdown. Love it! https://www.mockdown.design/

I also wrote a bit about the process, why Citywide’s lowercase was harder than I

I also wrote a bit about the process, why Citywide’s lowercase was harder than I expected, and my plans for future type projects. ✌️ https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/citywide-updated-and-expanded

📣 Big Citywide update! I’ve added lowercase to the family, plus over 170 new ch

📣 Big Citywide update! I’ve added lowercase to the family, plus over 170 new characters, expanded diacritics and symbols, and a fresh round of refinements to existing letterforms, spacing, and stylistic sets. Free update for existing licenses. https://shop.loudroom.com/products/citywide

Still ⌘S reflexively every so often. No matter how many times an app pops a char

Still ⌘S reflexively every so often. No matter how many times an app pops a charming message to tell me that I don’t need to save my files because it’s always saving progress.

I finished reading There Is No Antimemetics Division last night and really enjoy

I finished reading There Is No Antimemetics Division last night and really enjoyed it. Some mind bending sci-fi where I would sometimes need to flip back a couple pages to wrap my head around the cool turns in the story. https://bookshop.org/p/books/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-a-novel-qntm/62e1b65b6635badb

Lost episode from the original MST3K run on Minneapolis TV found at garage sale

Lost episode from the original MST3K run on Minneapolis TV found at garage sale and put on YouTube! https://gizmodo.com/mst3k-lost-episode-k03-2000736488

I wasn’t much of a reader when I was young, and often felt self-conscious about

I wasn’t much of a reader when I was young, and often felt self-conscious about it. I loved books, but mostly looking at pictures to draw. I fell in love with reading later in college. One of my kids is now reading on their own. They ask to go to the library to grab a stack of books and then devour them. I was totally unprepared for the rush of feelings that would hit me seeing them connect with r

I did well on my first go through, but the salmon-y colors were my downfall: htt

I did well on my first go through, but the salmon-y colors were my downfall: https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AKohKP___dPx