me too. But I have to use off-the-shelf tools, so I focus on the "humanware" - habits, routines, m. models, tactics
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i sometimes wonder if engineers' unusual obsession w/ writing their own blogging software is same "humanware" motivs
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they know the habit is personally beneficial so they publicly commit by embedding their own craft
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used to laugh at this tendency but now am coming around
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you aren't really committed until you make your own font
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maybe once I get through understanding the last 500 years of font design I'll get there :-)
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or you realize font designers are pushing a made-up theology on the world that doesn't matter #ComicSansFTW
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theology? How is type design more theology than any other type of design?
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beyond pure legability issues, types have strong association with diff times, places, institutions etc.
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agreed, but designers care about that stuff to an irrational degree that makes it cross line into theology
I suppose. I take a very engineer-based approach to typography e.g. kyleamathews.github.io/typography.js/
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As a Mormon AND a typography nerd, you have to admit this is more a typography joke theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep
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there are infinite degrees of subtlety between bold and semi-bold
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