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A new issue of one of my favorite design publications is now available for order. If anyone in the NYC area wants to combine orders for reduced shipping costs / carbon emissions, send me a DM or email in the next 24 hours.

Here’s a little info about the third-party cookies on fontsinuse.com: There are none. Last year, as our team discussed GDPR conformity, we agreed it was easier and better to drop any need for cookies than to have an opt-in popup. Receipts: themarkup.org/blacklight?url…

Ah yes, the ornate serifs and ball terminals of Helvetica, made with hand and brush, promoted lovingly by the PR team at Monotype and rigorously verified by the editors at Print. printmag.com/typography/mon…

The talk I gave about all things Franklin Gothic for @coopertype & Lubalin Center last month has be re-edited to restore some parts that were dropped in the livestream and subsequent recording. The new edit also includes high-res/full-screen slide images. youtube.com/watch?v=94uCx6…

Happy Blue Beanie Day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bean…

To coax people over to Mastodon I’ve been posting lots of fun stuff there: old books, custom type by Armin Hofmann & Pentagram Design, posters from CGH, gravestones with some of the earliest sans-serif English-language lettering I know, etc. Come on over: typo.social/@nicksherman

That feeling of validation when other people can still find and enjoy your nerdy photos from over 10 years ago because the photos are on Flickr.

Happy solstice everyone. If you’re using Mastodon, you can follow HEX there too: typo.social/@HEX

That feeling when someone you respect announces a shift away from Twitter in favor of Mastodon, and when you go to follow their account there you realize … you already do. 😎 The number of people I enjoyed following on Twitter who haven’t moved to Mastodon grows smaller daily.

Question for the CSS wizards out there: Is there a way to use CSS grid (or any pure CSS technique, really) to force the height of an element to snap to multiples of a number *based on the content*? This post describes basically what I want: stackoverflow.com/questions/7032…

The new website for Typographics 2023 is now live, with a schedule overview, early-bird conference registration, and more: 2023.typographics.com More details and events will be announced soon so keep an eye here for updates.