Amy Papaelias

@fontnerd

Font stuff, design education, emoji, . Occasional mom tweets. Co-founder:

Hudson Valley, New York
amypapaelias.com
Joined June 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Jul 2019

    “Mom why do you like 🙄FONT STUFF🙄 so much?” Geez, 9 year olds are brutal.

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  2. 21 hours ago

    Forgive me father for I have used an upside down apostrophe in a screenshot posted on instagram and will now live in punctuation purgatory for the remainder of eternity

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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 4

    If you want to know more what was like first person read this review of the class in by

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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 3

    We‘re doing it again 😍💚! Join us on Monday, March 8 for our 3rd Annual 24-Hour Hangout for International Women’s Day! 👇💖⏰

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  5. Mar 2

    “Why does food cost money?” Fair question from the 6yo.

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  6. Feb 21

    The Mentorship Program Party is the good vibes event we all need right now. It’s humbling to see the work produced, as well as the relationships cultivated, across the world. Kudos to the organizers, mentors, and mentees 👏❤️👏❤️👏

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  7. Feb 19

    Is Nature the only academic journal with its own custom typeface (from 2019) 🤔

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  8. Feb 16

    Sometimes we teach the students and sometimes the students teach us.

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  9. Feb 14

    Wait for the fonts 😍 (h/t )

    A gif of the 1990 SNL Chippendales sketch in which Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley audition to be Chippendales dancers. They are both wearing black spandex pants, white cuffs and a black bow tie. No shirts. The sketch has a complicated legacy as it’s basically one long fatphobic joke at Farley’s expense.
    History time! So you all have heard of Chippendales, the “male exotic dancers” that were primarily big in the 70s and 80s, right? You’ve probably seen the SNL sketch.
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  10. Feb 10

    Every time the district uses this whimsical script font to announce yet another school closing I laugh / die a little inside

    "Middle school / announcement / Shift to Remote"
    "Snow Day"
    "Reminder No School" with Mt. Rushmore in the background
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  11. Jan 24

    Is this how bitcoin works

    Child's handwriting mixed with some sticker letters: "Money for Sale for 3000 money payment for this goldin rock" with a rock painted gold next to it
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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 16

    We have increased the capacity of our FREE lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. Day! This Monday 1/18, join us in class for Colette Gaiter's lecture Strikethrough: Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights

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  13. Jan 12

    HOW TO MEAK ART

    A child fills out a "How To" page with the woods "Read a book" scratched out and replaced with "Meak Art" and a drawing of a kid and drawing pens and pencils
    A drawing of a pencil drawing the letter A
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  14. Jan 8

    The past few days have been a shit show wrapped in a garbage fire year wrapped in four years of hell so if you need a break from the doomscrolling and rage-inducing news cycle, I wrote this review about a butt-shaped typeface that, um, slaps 🤭...

    A specimen of Typefesse, a typeface by Océane Juvin for Velvetyne.
    “Defying logic or reason, each letter squeezes in a foot, leg, and buttock or two while maintaining a surprising level of readability. We all deserve more moments of collective levity, more silly quips, and more type that kicks some ass.”
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    Jan 6

    found in Facebook

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  16. Jan 4

    I’ve been staring at this for 10 minutes

    screenshot of the letters of "Electronic Journal of Probability" make up the curve of a graph
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  17. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2020

    🎉 We‘ve made it to The End of Bette(r) Days 2020 🎉 Elena Schneider eats veggies 🥕 is thankful 🤗 declutters 🗑️ misses home 💕 says goodbye, 2020 🖕 🥳 Ring in 2021 with all 35 Bette(r) Days 🥰:

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  18. 28 Dec 2020

    Today on I wrote about my daughter’s budding writing practice this year (as my own research goals imploded) as part of the soul-soothing Bette(r) Days 2020 series:

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  19. 21 Dec 2020

    We‘re all struggling in different ways and this student reminded me how important a simple thank you can be. Time to pay it forward 💌.

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  20. 21 Dec 2020

    But then I get an email like this (after grades were posted!) and, well, maybe I wasn’t a total failure. 🌠😭😍

    screenshot of an email: "Hi Amy, I just wanted to email you and say thank you for being such a great professor and for making my first real web experience super fun and manageable. I hope you have an amazing break and I'm looking forward to taking more classes with you in the future!"
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  21. 21 Dec 2020

    This semester was an absolute clusterf*ck. Without childcare (our school district never *really* opened and we opted to keep our kids in remote learning purgatory anyway), I constantly felt like I was failing my students, my kids, and my colleagues.

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