
Emma Kumer
@emmakumer
font identification machine and local jogger • designer at @washingtonpost • favorite fonts right now: tillana, recursive sans linear
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https://emmakumer.com/ 09-02-2014 23:37:22
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tremendous The Washington Post reporting out today: The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies. washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…


extremely cool: The Washington Post is up for a bunch of Webbys! on social: for Instagram: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/… for vertical video: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/… for the amazing NewsPrint product: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/… for TikTok: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/… plz vote!!

Fastest woman Emma Kumer and fastest team including courtney beesch and other fast colleagues on team It Speeds It Ledes!!


some incredible work from Sarah Pineda and Emma Kumer adapting this WaPo piece on bird sounds to the Instagram Story format! look at these little guys! washingtonpost.com/wellness/inter…



Attention font Twitter! Leslie Shapiro Geoffrey A. Fowler and I got to the bottom of how fonts are actually tested for legibility and replicated those tests for everyone to try! Check it out, paywall-free this week: washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

NEW: Deep underground, a machine named “Hazel” is digging a 2-mile-long tunnel. It’s meant to keep millions of gallons of sewage from seeping into the Potomac. And it’s drilling below the historic city of Alexandria, Va. Come 138 feet under w/ Post Local wapo.st/44xYx8L

part 1 of a stunning new The Washington Post investigation revealing the massive Smithsonian "racial brain collection." most of which were taken from Black and Indigenous people at the behest of an anthropologist who believed in white superiority: washingtonpost.com/history/intera…

how do you tell a story — one that happened over 100 years ago — as a comic? months of research and over a dozen pages of visual references. Nicole Dungca Claire Healy broke down how we did it: wapo.st/3KJggmn




I’m joining 700+ of my Washington Post colleagues and walking off the job today because the company is breaking the law and bargaining in bad faith. Washington Post Guild is fighting for better wages and a fair contract. Respect our picket line by avoiding Post journalism for 24 hours.

Words by Ava Wallace.........illustrations by me..... animations by Emma Kumer ............ the joint slay of the summer right here 👇🎾 wapo.st/4cMcLr1

The Society for News Design is excited to announce Emma Kumer of The Washington Post as the World’s Best Emerging Designer for her individual social media portfolio in the #SND46 Creative Competition. Read the full announcement at snd.org/national-geogr…
