First Americans Thursday, No Fonts: Thanksgiving Edition
A beautiful, powerful letter from Our Family Coalition, an LGBTQ rights organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://ourfamily.org/blog/?p=1537
First Nations Font Thursday 1 — Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning
In the U.S., today is Thanksgiving, billed as a day of giving thanks for our blessings, in commemoration of the story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians feasting together. (You’re supposed to do it with your birth family, unless you’re too queer or trans or many other marginalized groups, of course. Or too political. […]
Faith-Free Font Friday
Study: Top Reason Millennials Leave The Church Is Terrible Font Choices
Führer Font Friday
The below is an article from October 2016, but worth a rerun in light of Trump’s recent (impeachment hearings 2019) adventures in writing speech notes for himself. Here’s a link to Trump’s latest scrawlings set to music made by various talented musicians: a) Ramones-style b) Emo-style c) Morrissey-style BY JOHN BROWNLEE Although he’s known for […]
1482 Font Friday
Mnemonic Alphabet of Jacobus Publicius (1482) Jacobus Publicius was a fifteenth-century rhetorician and physician who is remembered today for being the author of the first ars memoriae (or ars memorativa), a work dedicated to techniques concerning the organisation and improving of memory. Publicius’ ideas were gathered in a book called Ars Oratoria. Ars Epistolandi. Ars Memorativa published in 1482, which […]