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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

So excited to see this launch! Kent was a dream client to work with. He’s knowledgable and highly skilled, but also generous and collaborative. The design is a blend of type history, calling back to past type specimens and showcasing Kent’s awesome library. I really love the In the Works […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Fixing a typo in a blog post I wrote a couple months back only after seeing someone quote the part with the typo 🤦‍♂️ Though in these times, I still prefer making my own stilly mistakes!

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

😲 Wow, @austinkleon takes a virtual tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Ohio, including a look at the Chris Ware exhibit (the only US leg of its tour). I probably won’t get out to Columbus before the Ware exhibit closes, so this is the next best thing […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@classicweb/1173341… Back then, MT made me love blogging and building websites even more than I thought possible. Fantastic software.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

This was a selfish update, I mostly go there to copy marks to paste elsewhere. I have been meaning to give the site a little design and code refresh one of these years, but maybe it’s nice for it to just stay a little web artifact from 2013 🤔

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

It is once again National Punctuation Day in the US. To celebrate, I made a small easter eggy update to my smart quotes site (click the logo): smartquotesforsmartpeople.com

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Smart Quotes for Smart People

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@dnanian Amazing! You are already way ahead of the game <3

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: mas.to/@dnanian/117018254706425431 Insta-buy, one of my all time favorite Mac apps gets a huge update. 👏 🎉

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Now I just assume anytime I read the word “quietly” in a headline it was written with AI.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

RE: follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/1169… I spend more time than I like thinking about AI use across the design field, how quickly so many have slid into comfort with their use, and what we’re trading now for an unwritten future. I have more feelings about it than useful […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge. www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Dang, sad to hear that the Dropbox client Maestral is being retired. I had been putting off switching and got accustomed to using it in place of Dropbox's UI. Looks like I'll need to move before long. I've always mistrusted iCloud after losing data years ago, but maybe it's ok now? I'd also […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

“I can’t see the future, but I can state a blindingly obvious thing. None of these are questions about technology. These are all questions about work: what it might look like in the future and, most importantly, whether or not the person asking will even have a place in that future.” Nodding […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

I’m lousy at pinball, but I still love the Transformers from my youth 🤖: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQMfllXOFKA

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

It’s a banner week for web friends’ personal sites! @beep Redesigned his site and there are heaps of nice details: view transitions, background scroll-y secrets, and visited link styles (remember those). Made with the same care as his writing: ethanmarcotte.com @nazhamid Revived his […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Why is the camera person slowly shifting their weight between their left and right feet? Can someone please get them a stool or

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

*Obviously, a high-res display is doing some work here too.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

I was catching up on @letterror’s notes for his recent Action Grotesque and marveling at the 5pt(!) text captions (rendered as 6.66667px). It’s “legible” for me, but that’s also relative (I still need to lean close). It’s wonderfully bonkers that this looks so […] [Original post on typo.social]

Screenshot of two short paragraphs of white text on a dark blue background. Below the second paragraph is very small text with a red arrow pointing at it. The text reads: size 13pt | weight 485 | ↑

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Fascinating deep research on the origins of Lorem Ipsum. Lots here I didn’t know, including that there were so many holes in its history. We’ve had it all wrong! What a fun ride: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4 Plus a @BijouType cameo!

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Interesting peek at @letterformarchive’s upcoming collection of scans of drawings, print outs, and materials from development of Emigre’s fonts. Eve Scarborough led the effort and also shares thoughts on how material like this is becoming scarce these days as so much of the design process is […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

RE: typo.social/@JTDType/11664705860805… Enfilade is a fantastic condensed sans serif family by @JTDType, now with 5 tailored optical sizes. 😍

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I’m looking for some new t-shirt designs. I lean towards silkscreened prints over digital, generally not big brand stuff, usually more design/art/abstract/restuarants/games. Send me your favorite recs!

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

RE: typo.social/@Typographics/116568227… Typographics Conference early bird tickets available until this Friday! I’ll be attending this year ✌️

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

A fix I stumbled on: If you turn off the palettes via menus (Window > Generate, etc) they don’t seem to persist between sessions. I had been right-clicking on the palettes and selecting "Close", which has a different behavior for some reason. 🤷‍♂️

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

I like this overlapping type treatment throughout the NYT’s feature on the greatest living American songwriters. It works particularly well with their heavier Franklin Gothic, and I appreciate that they did it with live text. (Lots of contributors for the […] [Original post on typo.social]

Large colorful stacked headline type in all caps for the linked New York Times feature reading: The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Pica, a new (to me) font management app for Mac OS by Josh Puckett looks awesome. Especially the feature to drop in an image and see all of your font samples next to it (for font searching during logo design). pica.joshpuckett.me (Unfortunately, seems to require Tahoe right now)

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Pica, a MacOS font management app

A better way to manage your fonts

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

And perhaps just as worrying, investors think this is extremely good. This is all normal and sustainable and normal: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bi…

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

@blag Same for me! I'm not really on Instagram much, so I'm always sad when that's the only place someone shares their work. No more!

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

RE: typo.social/@pixelambacht/116381192… I use Wakamai Fondue all the time when designing fonts or digging into details when using fonts. So useful! 👏

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

My favorite* Adobe thing is when I open Indesign and it ignores my saved workspace profile and just opens a bunch of extra palettes. *it’s actually the worst

A screenshot of an Indesign workspace so full of control palettes that the view of the open document is just a small sliver.

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

I’ve always loved this local building supply company logo, mostly because I feel like I’ve spent my whole design life wrangling Js in logos for myself. And this one has a spectacular j! I just noticed they seem to have closed down all locations by me. I still […] [Original post on typo.social]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

A friend recommended The Protomen’s latest album (Act III: This City Made Us) and I’ve had it on repeat all week. Syths + conceptual rock opera + guitar solos? check check check Once I can put this one aside I’m going to listen to Act II […]

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Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

📣 Big Citywide update! I’ve added lowercase to the family, plus over 170 new characters, expanded diacritics and symbols, and a fresh round of refinements to existing letterforms, spacing, and stylistic sets. Free update for existing licenses. shop.loudroom.com/products/citywide

A Citywide type specimen, white type on black background. The word "lowercase" is repeated in a vertical list 5 times, going from narrow and light down to wide and heavy styles. Then the stack is repeated in italics but the styles reversed on the right.

A Citywide type specimen, black type on an off-white background. There are a variety of context-less numbers presented for display: Jan 10, 1863, 168 million, 5¢, 39 MPH, 602 km, 56%, 409 seconds, 160,352.

A Citywide type specimen, purple type on a lime green background. It reads from top to bottom: Vorpal Blade, Bag of Holding, Ring of Invisibility, Portable Hole.

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