#fontober day 16 (halfway!): the lorenzo theatre in san lorenzo turned on its neon sign for the first time in 44 years yesterday and i fell in love with its boxy letters. that 'n' is wild, right? thanks to u/JonaFrey on reddit for the photo

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#fontober day 15: did a little revival of the typeface in one of the old books i didn't end up using in type west, "the critic in the occident" by george hamlin fitch (elder & co., sf, 1913). i think it's a caslon of some variety

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Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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#fontober day 14: a geometric sans i drew with mouse and keyboard on the train because i forgot my sketch pad. you have to pull all kinds of tricks to make a monolinear sans face look even: taper the joins in abdhmnpq, thin the strokes overall in busier characters like aes, etc. it's tough!

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