The project’s become difficult again – so it goes – and America is breaking my heart, so this milestone feels hollow, and yet: For the first time, I sent the book in its entirety for someone to read and give me feedback. Egads!
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Also, I made this modern web reading environment for it, and it was exciting to see the book in a different livery for the first time. I’ve so far only known it in Scrivener, typeset in Tisa Pro… but here it is in the beloved Mercury Text (and some Maison Neue strewn around).pic.twitter.com/Zma1RSFTRb
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(I also set up my first virtual server and wrote my first Node server app in the process, which was a classic “use something you have to do as an excuse to learn something new” scenario.)
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Also, this numero is so, so gorgeous. I like that its presence tells a story: there in all the early chapters, talking about typewriters like Remington №2 and Underwood №5; gone later, since we stopped using it. But tell me that “iPhone №10” doesn’t have a nice ring to it.pic.twitter.com/eJ3CAD9QkC
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Discouraging to send an editor specific documents saying why there is no book like this one, and comparing it to all the existing books about typewriters… only to hear her say “I took a look at Amazon, there are a million books that try to do the same thing.” *A million books.*
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BTW hilariously that numero above is not from the font I chose for text… but from Times. Times! It’s awesome to know even an old, worn down typeface still can hold a few surprises.
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Preparing example spreads for a potential publisher, imagining this book as a full-colour 8"×10" volume. This is starting to feel rather real!pic.twitter.com/fjctlNSvPT
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Replying to @yosefitche
Yeah. Not as much fun as it used to be, but I guess still the only real game in town. The screenshots are blurred, but I’m using real text of the book, too!
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I’m new to the graphic design space, and spend most of my day in indesign. How did it used to be more fun?
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All Adobe apps got worse in terms of UI and reliability. I see a lot of spinning pizzas, the UI taking over Mac OS even if the app is not focused, and more crashes than I used to 7–8 years ago (last time when I was typesetting something seriously).
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Replying to @mwichary
That’s sad. Yeah, I run into a lot of issues. Isn’t there an option in the Window menu to snap all the panels to a single application window? Or do you mean something else by the app taking over the Mac.
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