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Jackson @okaytype.com · 05/09/2026

I think this thing thinks I'm Canadian.

Jackson @okaytype.com · 10/06/2026

Sorry bskyers, I keep forgetting to post the Okay Type sketches here. Unhelpful blurb in the alt text. See more recent sketches at okaytype.com/sketches. Now back to the doom scrolling...

More Chicagoish sketches. A study based on the masthead of the late 60s Chicago Magazine masthead. No, not that Chicago Magazine. This was a different one that eventually turned into the Chicagoan (no, not that Chicagoan, and not the other Chicagoan, a third and entirely different Chicagoan). Confusing. Anyway, this style is great. I’d call it Industrial Mod. A little jet set, a little midwest modern. Like Miller & Richard’s Grotesque No. 10 meets Aldo Novarese’s Microgramma.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 30/04/2026

This week's self promotion sketch thingamajig. More inane writing about it in the alt text. More recent sketches at okaytype.com/sketches ✌️

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 15/04/2026

Pretty excited to see the Chicago Reader start using Harriet and Alright!

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 26/03/2026

This week's pointless sketch thing. Presented without context. More at okaytype.com/sketches

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 18/03/2026

Are there type/lettering/design people here who want to see more dumb work?

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/01/2026

Oo, I drew something for this project too. Went a little crazy durning lock down.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 05/08/2025

Haven’t posted a pizza here in a while. The concept was simply “green things in the fridge” but it ended up being incredibly good. Scallions, green olives, anaheim pepper, basil.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 25/07/2025

Copyright claims took down r/TheFarSide so everyone started posting text-only descriptions of Far Side comics and it's kind of awesome www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 18/07/2025

Hard to keep up with social media. Here are some cats. Stay safe.

Two sleeping cats. One large. One small.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 02/05/2025

I spy Euchre with a dash of Harriet in this nice looking design magazine. chicagographicdesign.shop/products/fac...

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 28/04/2025

Euchre was selected as one of the Type Director’s Club TDC71 best fonts of 2024. It was even selected as a freaking Judge’s Choice! You can view all of the winners online at tdc.org/winner-archi.... See more of Euchre and grab free test fonts at okaytype.com/euchre #tdc #typedirectorsclub ✌️

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 04/04/2025

How do you pronounce Univers Flair?

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 25/03/2025

Carmelized onion and dehydrated mushroom pizza. Almost good. Going to add ricotta and fresh arugula next time.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 22/03/2025

Euchre laserblasted onto plywood.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 21/03/2025

Thursday pizza! This is my “plain cheese,” but it’s actually crazy garlic bread pizza.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 20/03/2025

Not sure this * works but I'm trying.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 18/03/2025

New book. Mr. Angelo, illustrated by Abner Graboff. A classic. Already had a copy but this one was cheap and much cleaner.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 15/03/2025

Rajas pie. (I make a lot of pizza, sorry).

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 14/03/2025

Thursday Pizza. Cleaning out the fridge for a cheese burger pie with beyond meat, pickles, horseradish, onions, cherry tomato, and sesame seeds.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 14/03/2025

This place needs more cats. Here’s Books enjoying the false spring sunset.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 09/03/2025

Tonight’s literally hobbled together pizza.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 08/03/2025

It looks nice outside but I can’t do anything. Glad to have a couple of new books.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 08/03/2025

I’d never seen Good Will Hunting before. What kinda apples do you want? Or whatever.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 07/03/2025

Thursday is usually pizza night here.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 28/02/2025

Burn it all down. Here’s tonight’s pizza.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 25/02/2025

New additions to the library. Bought for the W. F. Hall specimen (which has a wild wood face cut for a large Chicago meat packer) but the other two are also gems. The ATF booklet is particularly nice, very handsome early American modernism.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 25/02/2025

Just testing Flashes with a rejected {. Why does this app exist?

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 12/02/2025

Just two more days left for vote to make Wallace Rice’s centennial flag the Illinois state flag. www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/... — photo from the Barnhart 1925 type specimen that for unknown reasons incorrectly labeled it as the IL state flag. Maybe exactly one hundred years too early?

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/02/2025

Found the prospectus for DaBoll’s magnum opus tucked between two books.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 25/01/2025

You can’t eat design awards. You can only post about them to social media.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 10/01/2025

Public voting for the Illinois state flag redesign is open. The good news is you can vote for the original 1917 Wallace Rice Centennial design. www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/...

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/12/2024

The last two posters in the set. Take your vitamins.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/12/2024

Couldn't find a designer (or afford to buy them) but these are circa 1949. Right around the time 27 Chicago Designer Bert Ray left as Abbott’s art director.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/12/2024

These were supposed to be hung in the waiting room at the doctors office. I'm guessing to terrify people into taking vitamins?

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 06/12/2024

Earlier this summer I was digging around the early design history of Abbott Labs and stumbled on this insane poster campaign for Dayalets Vitamins.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 05/12/2024

One of my favorite specimens, the little fuzzy French Caslon, popped up on the ebay. 👀 www.ebay.com/itm/11641192...

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 04/12/2024

It's a minor point but these illustrations are f-ing terrible.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 02/12/2024

The appearance of the grid lines in the NYT crossword app changed this week and it's bad.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 27/11/2024

Still waiting on the next step in Illinois's flag-o-rama. The selection deadline was delayed to January 1st, and the public report delayed to April 1st.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 23/11/2024

My favorite gas station in Chicago. A mix of nut and mutton fractions. Also a buck fifty more expensive than any other place. Photo taken from a bike, ban cars.