iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026

Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 15/09/2026

Fontstand Cooperative now exists. 🚀 After two years of work, it’s officially incorporated in the Netherlands. We’ve opened applications for independent type foundries. Read more, and consider joining us. fontstand.com/news/design-...

Rafał Buchner’s composition for the 2026 Fontstand Conference in Berlin, photographed by Norman Posselt.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 05/09/2026

I think this thing thinks I'm Canadian.

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Registration for WORD, a new Chicago-style wayzgoose for printers, opens Tuesday Sept 1st at noon. Wayzgooseord.com is the site if you want to check out details.

Reversed image of inked wood type in a composing stick that says WORD with a Chicago star and colors.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 28/08/2026

I wasn't aware the files were out there. I'd love to see your pirated flier!

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 27/08/2026

I spy some of the custom fonts I made with Thirst for the Black Ensemble Theater. Glad to see it's still going strong.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 11/08/2026

That would be Jean-Baptiste Levée.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal:

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”

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Christopher Slye @slye.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Impressive typographic nitpicking!

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Dan Cederholm @simplebits.com · 17/07/2026

A Serif Badge Pin using a stretched out version of my Spagetty typeface in antique silver (probably not real silver) and it's available now in the shop! Wear it with pride, knowing that most people will point out the horrendous typo. simplebits.shop/products/ser...

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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

Photo of two HVAC filters. The top one is clean white, while the bottom is a dark, dingy gray.

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Rutherford @craze.co.uk · 16/07/2026

I Was On the Front Page of Hacker News and All I Got was This $4 Hosting Overage and a Single Instagram Follower

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 07/07/2026

Somehow I'm not on Adobe fonts but the variable version of Euchre has a modest grade axis. okaytype.com/euchre

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Okay Type ✶ Euchre

A typeface design studio in Chicago.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New on Adobe.Design: a short piece by me on using grade to elevate typography. Grade before might at first seem like weight, but where weight serves to differentiate (adding emphasis and contrast), grade’s purpose is to unify (bringing consistency to text that looks different when it shouldn’t).

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Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

Grade is a subtle typographic adjustment that preserves visual balance across shifting contexts

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 07/07/2026

It’s taken a while to put into words what I find so distasteful about AI in type design (even — especially — the ‘boring parts’). It’s not the threat of being put out of a job. Some thoughts: mass-driver.com/article/from...

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From human hands.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Christophe Plantin printed a number of school editions, including Virgil’s Aeneid, with wide margins & generous line spacing for students’ notes. This copy is especially remarkable: it belonged to his grandson, the young Balthasar I Moretus. Judging by his aannotations, he was a diligent student!

Detail of two facing pages, on the left handwritten notes, on the right the heavily annotated printed Latin text

Title page of the book, reading ‘Pvbl. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidos Liber VI.’ It contains a woodcut engraving of Plantin’s printer’s mark and his imprint.

The first page of the main text with notes in between the lines and margins facing an interleaved page filled with handwritten notes.

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

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Frere-Jones Type @frerejones.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New Release! Constrictor is a typeface in perpetual motion. Its patterns of interference provoke an emotional response and spark joy in users and readers. Fred Shallcrass has designed a family which radiates an energetic presence. See Constrictor at frerejones.com/families/con...

Specimen of the Constrictor typeface family

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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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Shoko Mugikura @shokojaf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣 News from JAF! “Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs” is coming back. After two years out of print, we are preparing a reprint, planned for later in 2026. Stay tuned for updates!

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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

An early example of unjustified setting

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 18/05/2026

They spelled "cheeseburgers" wrong but this banner is slamming.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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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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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just the type of thing to find in our collections: a sheet with rows of characters probably printed as a working proof to assess wear & damage. This would explain why no frisket was used: the sheet was not a type specimen intended for presentation to potential clients. #bookhistory #rarebooks 📚💙📜

Paper sheet with rows of characters, including the letters P, Q, m etc. Below furniture visible consisting of 8 printed blocks.

Detail of the paper sheet focusing on the letters m in the middle, with one of the characters printed upside down

Detail of the paper sheet focusing on the letters Q in the middle, showing visible wear

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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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Frere-Jones Type @frerejones.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We were honored to collaborate with Aneesh Bhoopathy at the NYC Mayor’s Office @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov on some custom type! At the Mayor’s 100 Day Address this past weekend, materials used an unreleased style of our Empirica typeface, modified to resonate with the campaign identity.

Photograph of Mayor Zohran Mamdani addressing a crowd of supporters on April 12, 2026.

Diagram of custom typeface for the mayor’s office, showing text “MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI”

Woman holding a rally sign saying “Put a Lid on It”

A woman holds a rally sign saying “Childcare for All” and a man hold a sign saying “NYC Groceries”

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 13/04/2026

Anytime, always looking for excuses to justify owning these books.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 13/04/2026

I don't know, I'd like to see that. I've managed to find a Western and a Crescent specimen but I've never seen their actual metal goods.

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Jackson @okaytype.com · 13/04/2026

Crescent was a Chicago-based foundry too.

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Metal type foundries used to cast their names into non-printing spacing material. When I find it in the shop I pull it aside. Barnhart Bros. & Spindler (BB&S) and Western (WTF) were Chicago-based foundries.

Close up of spacing material for letterpress printing that shows labels of type foundries cast into it.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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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

Yea, that G is the star of the show. Like a nonplussed beluga whale.

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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 · 09/03/2026

Font nerds should head over to the type Mastodon when they finally get sick of this place. typo.social/@Okay

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

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Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

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