Another experiment in printing, without electricity, for this #MosEspa poster. Three layers of hand-sprayed edgy & pin-point stencil types with a dotted grid. Sixty different versions, we almost burned out! → mosespa.ch

The Stack: We speak with Jonathan Knight, head of games at The New York Times / New York Times Games and Mathieu Christe, founder of Footnotes, a title on type design and typography, published by La Police bit.ly/43vvIdn

Typewriters hammering the beat, welcome to Expo 64! Part of it, Tempo by Gret Mengelt-Mergenthaler, is a spot-on one-off stencil typeface. Digitally reborn by its original designer with the help of Christian Mengelt it just resurfaced thanks to Forgotten Shapes → forgotten-shapes.com/texpo

Free speech, no shipping & handling, come say hi and buy issues of #Footnotes during the Salon des disperséexs, 25–26 March in Geneva at Le Commun, full programme → ladispersion.ch/salon

Ballot box, oh ballot box, where did the #Footnotes subscribers go? Since that poll you might have changed your mind but if you simply forgot about it, here’s a reminder → lapolice.ch/publications/f… Thanks for your support!

Looking forward to visiting the Haettenschweiler exhibit → museum-gestaltung.ch/en/ausstellung… Museum für Gestaltung Zürich this Thursday, with a lecture by Rudolf Barmettler at 6pm. If you want to buy a copy of #Footnotes #issueD (cash only) just say hi after the talk. I’ll be wearing clothes.

What more than a fresh #Footnotes and website to rave with a poster? A silkscreen printing experiment (sérigraphie Madame) echoeing the landing page, on view in town until January 4 2023. Thank you Ville de Genève for the cultural display in #Genève & best wishes to everyone!

“Allez, viens picoler avec La Police!” #Footnotes #issueD launch party this Thursday, November 24 6–9 pm, àDuplex, rue des Amis 9, 1201 Geneva. Typefaces next, but time to celebrate so please join our Miracol-ambianced taralli apéro.

New website → lapolice.ch dynamically coded by David Hodgetts statically generated using Astro Now offering back issues and a subscription to Footnotes, a highly recommended Twitter escape newsletter subscription and RSS feed. Can you crack the code?

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Do you enjoy reading websites? Recently going from A to Z, I learnt nuggets of type culture thanks to Source Type’s index by Laurenz Brunner & team → sourcetype.com/index Fortuitously the cover of #Footnotes #issueD hints at backmasking, a term now part of my vocabulary.

If in Zürich tomorrow Friday, May 13 then Typostammtisch 35 Typozüri (Atelier Koch18, Kochstrasse 18, 18:30 pm) will be the place to learn about type diplomacy. Go listen to Radek Sidun from BriefcaseTypeFoundry about his project Manual of Diacritics

Voilà! Finished reading Manual of Diacritics by Radek Sidun and looking forward to studying it some more. Bravo for this educational publication on diacritics. Peignot Demi’s ring looks great, like a donut in the wind! Order? → manualofdiacritics.eu

Next Sunday, part of the “Scripts of the World” series, François Rappo & Optimo Type Foundry will talk about revivals, organised by ECAL - Lausanne & Fondation Martin Bodmer, full programme → ecal.ch/en/5159/evenem…

Dear future readers, to wish everyone a Happy New Year the Swiss Post has raised prices (alright, for the first time in 18 years). As of today shipping 1 copy of #Footnotes to Europe or the rest of the World will cost CHF 2.– more (Priority only).

O O O A A A unexpected restock of the long-out-of-print #Footnotes #issueA with 6 copies. Only available to public libraries & archives as a full subscription, so teachers & librarians do get in touch (DM). Students, readers & collectors, please RT, thank you!

This weekend, if in Marseille then follow the guides Alaric Garnier & David Poullard for “Balades typographiques dans Belsunce” → fotokino.org/agenda/balades… #b2b #safaritypo