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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 09/08/2026

Thank you @typecon! #typecon2026 in Portland was great. This annual conference is crucial for the typography community.

John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Look what I just unearthed: my badge from Type90. That was my first type conference, which I attended on press credentials from Aldus Magazine.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Robert Bringhurst, “Elements of Typographic Style.”

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

At the Stanford ATypI conference in May, in my presentation on Friday morning, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bux7... I announced the publication of “Type is everywhere: a history of the Association Typographique Internationale” atypicalhistory.com and gave a link to the digital book.

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70 Years of ATypI | John D Berry | ATypI 2026 Stanford

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

That is just malicious nastiness. And a political agenda.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The history of ATypI is finished. Read it now, in a responsive digital book. atypi-history.netlify.app

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Welcome | ATypI History

Welcome

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That’s what a cover design is supposed to do.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

No. A definite no. Look at the x-height, for one thing. For another, Avant Garde wasn’t released until the early 1970s.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

At the end of this year, RIT Press will be publishing my new book of typographic essays, ”Working with Type: selected essays on type & typography“: press.rit.edu/978195631352...

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Working with Type

Working with Type: Selected Essays on Type and Typography is a selection of essays by renowned typographer John D. Berry about the modern history of typograp...

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Shouldn’t have to go through the Strait of Hormuz. Which doesn’t mean that it won’t.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

1) Sword at Sunset, Rosemary Sutcliff; 2) Spear, Nicola Griffith.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I was wondering why no one one had yet mentioned “Sword at Sunset.”

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

www.theguardian.com/.../white-ho.... “The memes will continue”? White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I've just published a new chapter of my typographic memoir, this time about when I was Editor & Publisher of U&lc (Upper & lowercase). I know there are other things I should be doing, but it was about time I added another chapter. johndberry.com/2025/12/22/e...

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easily amused | John D. Berry

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ben Kamm, ethnobotanist & conservation horticulturalist, whom I know from his steadfast management of the Little, Big project, has launched a fundraiser to help his rare-plants nursery survive climate change. ssbp.betterworld.org/campaigns/re...

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Renovating our Nursery & Garden: Phase 1 - Irrigation | Sacred Succulents: Beneficial Plants

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Once more into #ATypI history, dear friends! I've just published the next chapter, this time on ATypI in the 1970s. Like all the chapters of this work in progress, this is a draft. Corrections & additions always welcome. johndberry.com/atypi-histor...

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ATypI in the 1970s | John D. Berry

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Depends on the typeface, though.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I have just published a draft of the most difficult chapter of the ATypI history, on the association’s "Code Moral.” The Code was a core document of ATypI from its founding, although the first official version wasn’t adopted until 1963. johndberry.com/atypi-histor...

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Le Code Moral | John D. Berry

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Apocalypso. Oh, wait, that’s a movie.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Will they mariner once again? I certainly hope not.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The talk I gave last winter at Face/Interface 2025 on “Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design” is now up on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWJ...

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Multilingual and Multiscript Book Design (John D. Berry)

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Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. * @eileengunn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

C'mon. This Guy is the present administration's Horst Wessel. Talking about him makes him bigger. Are any of the new sources talking about anything else? The rest of the world has moved on.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Homes? Hanging from a Christmas tree?

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I only remember them from the early 1960s. There were later ones?

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This campaign is now at 98%. All it'll take is another $398 to reach the goal. Pocket change for a billionaire! One of the chapters that I'm intending to write will be about Typ09, the first ATypI conference in Latin America: Mexico City, 2009. www.gofundme.com/f/support-jo...

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Tonight we had the second Type Seattle meet-up, with its somewhat more formal format than a simple pub gathering. (Not that there's anything wrong with those!) It's good to have a regular event for the local type community again, after the long Covid-induced lacuna.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That's quite a list of exceptions!

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

More of a bold, shadowed 19th-century modern typeface, but I don't recognize it offhand.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Actually, I think Vignelli was simply wrong about this. His choices of typeface were conventional, and not necessarily the best. But his insistence on keeping it simple was very much to the point. And he used that limited palette brilliantly. A great visual designer, and articulate in his views.

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John D. Berry @johndberry.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I have just published the next chapter in the ATypI history, about Type90, the 1990 conference in Oxford, which was a watershed moment for the type community. johndberry.com/atypi-histor... www.gofundme.com/f/support-jo...

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Type90 | John D. Berry

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