You must not tell lies to the Librarian 🤥 #LibraryTwitter

German media is falling backwards over itself in the reporting of the World Cup that most Germans are boycotting anyway. First, it belittled Japan’s win against Spain as “surprising” (which it wasn’t) and now it is arguing that Spain threw the match to punish Germany.

The German squad is flaming out of the tournament because its players suck and there is no kind of sensible organization or planning behind them. Instead, foreigners have to be blamed for stealing the team’s chances 🤦‍♂️

About 100 years ago, there were two methods by which brass-type fonts for bookbinders were industrially manufactured in Germany. I found a detailed description for one method (sandcasting) and translated it for you over on my website.

Schneekönigin is a really excellent typeface.

Kalender - in kalanderfesten Schriften! 100 Jahre Privatdrucke der Xberger Berthold AG. Ein Beitrag von Dan Reynolds, Kerstin Wallbach & Marcel Ruhl im Rahmen unseres @[email protected]-Projekts zur Digitalisierung des Typo-Kulturerbes Berlins u.a. mit Prof. Erik Spiekermann blog.sbb.berlin/privatdrucke/

Ein laufendes #Erschließungsprojekt im Technikmuseum Berlin erfasst Akten aus der Berthold AG und macht diese der Forschung zugänglich. Es finden sich Listen mit Schriftnummern die uns auch bei der Arbeit im Depot helfen: tinyurl.com/bdz4z9sf #typography #berthold #archive

Dan Reynolds We are pleased to have these holdings in our archive Technikmuseum Berlin and that we can make a contribution to research by making them accessible. For the #Akzidenz-Grotesk we refer to these files.

I won’t see any of you in Paris this time, but at least there is this

New pamphlet! 🦖 Making Neuland Dan Reynolds Dan Reynolds Poem Pamphlet 7 2023 poem-editions.com/products/makin…

Making Neuland Dan Reynolds Dan Reynolds Poem Pamphlet 7 2023 8€ poem-editions.com/products/makin…

Today on Fontstand News, we published an interview from Michela Zoppi with Seb McLauchlan about his typefaces. Check them out over at fontstand.com/news/essays/in…

New fonts 🌿 Koch Grotesk by Rudolf Koch, Edvinas Žukauskas & Jérôme Knebusch The newest revival of Neuland, published exactly 100 years ago by Klingspor in Offenbach. One separate font for each of the nine original sizes + a never-released lowercase. poem-editions.com/products/koch-…

Im Archivbestand der ehemaligen Berliner #Notenstecherei Paris im Technikmuseum Berlin gibt es ein #Schriftmusterbuch: tinyurl.com/3kc2pray Eine #Onlineausstellung tinyurl.com/5ahkyd6h zeigt Fotos aus der Werkstatt dieser Notenstecherei von 1991. #typography #archiv

Announcing the latest from Letterform Archive Books! Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911, a hi-fi facsimile edition of the periodical that introduced Vienna’s modern design movement to the world. Available for preorder now: letterformarchive.org/shop/die-flach…

Near Frankfurt? Coming to the Buchmesse? Jérôme Knebusch, Edvinas Žukauskas & I will speak at the Klingspor Museum on the evening of October 20th. All about Neuland & its newest revival Koch Grotesk from Poem. It would be great to see you! offenbach.de/microsite/klin…

Handzeichnungen für den Fotosatz aus dem Archiv der H. Berthold AG - neue Perspektiven für die typografiehistorische Forschung? Ein Gastbeitrag von Dan Reynolds, Kerstin Wallbach & Marcel Ruhl im Kontext unseres @[email protected]-Kooperationsprojekts (1/2) blog.sbb.berlin/fotosatz/