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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 3h

#fontober day 12: this typecooker was more work than i was expecting. tapering the stems toward the middle makes the outlines much more complex and hard to manipulate (and extra-light faces are even less forgiving). the hooks in a, c, and r usually have ball terminals but s has serifs — why is that?

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 1d

#fontober day 11: i added a "signpainter's shadow" to day 1's font by outsetting each glyph's path, deleting the segments that don't face the direction of the shadow, and stroking the remaining segments with a round brush. i like how it differs from just putting the text on an offset copy of itself

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 2d

#fontober day 10: @macrael.com prompted me with the phrase "attack font" and i ran with it, imagining something that might be painted on the side of a plane, bold and pointy with no curves

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 3d

#fontober day 9: if bees developed electronic displays they might look like this, a 12-segment hex cell based on a triangular grid. it works for the most part but the constraints are evident in letters like T, m, x. the cell tiles the grid when staggered so you can use it to hide messages (image 3)

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 4d

#fontober day 8: i always wanted to try a slab serif and typecooker said i should so i guess today's the day. i'm not quite sure how to get k and x to work right tho… as it is it just looks like they're all serifs

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 5d

#fontober day 7: the nice thing about typecookers is that you can pick and choose which parts you want to follow. today i got "no contrast, extra bold condensed" and decided to make the ends rounded for funsies. shrinking the counter of 'g' to make room for the tail is one of my favorite tricks

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 6d

#fontober day 6: did another typecooker asking for a wide high-contrast face with translation stress. couldn't resist the tilted 'e'. i feel like it has slightly spooky fall vibes!

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 7d

#fontober day 5: i love the lettering in "an ideal boy: charts from india" by sirish rao et al. here i extrapolated the ultra-wide hand used in "OUR HELPERS" to a whole alphabet. there were some tough decisions — should I have made the C/G/D rounded like the P/R instead of square like the O?

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 8d

#fontober day 4: i'm a huge fan of franklin gothic and narrow grotesques in that vein so i decided to try drawing one. turns out it's super hard — with no serifs to distract the eye, every mistake in thickness and curvature is much more apparent

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 9d

#fontober day 3: i asked a friend for a prompt and he said "maximum ornamentation", so i did what i could in a 3 hour time frame. think circuses and toy chests

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 10d

#fontober day 2: sometimes too much constraint is a bad thing. typecooker suggested "octagonal curves" and i decided to try a bodoni-esque face using only straight and 45° lines. turns out non-45° lines are important for A N X Z which look a little wonky here. the result reminds me of cross stitch

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · 11d

hey we're back with another #fontober, the silly challenge i give myself every year where i do some type design every day during the month of october and post the results here. today i'm kicking things off with a typecooker-inspired high-contrast marker face

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · Nov 29

The God of Arepo / a #comic about a farmer who befriends a nothing god (1/13) #art

Cover image. A sun-kissed ancient Roman farmer in a big straw hat sits in a shady spot by the forest besides a rustic cairn. Alt text of the following images are from the original short story by Tumblr users writing-prompt-s, sadoeuphemist, stu-pot and sameenbyhat. Significant additions by me are in brackets.

Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 23d

I drew a tiny zine about this for just myself last spring. I offer it now to a weary world.

Cover, a drawing of a rusty blue Ford truck and the text “The Albums of My Dad’s Blue Truck.”

My dad had this blue pickup truck that was only for driving back and forth to the steel mill. It was covered in rust and the awful mill dust that would eventually kill him. After work, he would pick up my brother and I from the Fitness Barn (my mom’s work) and drive us home.
He had a very small collection of albums in the truck, and an album would live on repeat for months at a time, rotating almost seasonally on a cycle. I know these versions of these albums like they are extensions of my own thoughts.

Queen-Greatest Hits: The 1991 Elektra version. Other Greatest Hits versions mess up the sequence I expect and this upsets my brain on an electrical level.

Meat Loaf-Bat Out of Hell: Album so beloved by my family it eventually migrated to my mom’s van. Foundational t my love of theatrical bombast and my mental soundtrack to The Dragonlance Chronicles.

Little Feat-Waiting for Columbus: “Dixie Chicken” is maybe the first rock song I understood as having a story. Then I learned every word. The studio version sounds wrong to me.

Roger Waters-The Wall, Live in Berlin: “The Trial” absolutely formative to me. My dad and I used to poke my brother to the rhythm of “I-could-not-put-my-finger-on-it-now” on “Comfortably Numb,” and he hated it every time.

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Joe Sparrow @torpordust.bsky.social · Sep 10

a comic about fishing (1/7)

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Adrienne Hestenes @ahestenes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ta daaa! I give you the Lorentz Attractor thanks to the free pattern from #ThreadedTheorems and also @samjshah.bsky.social whose posted work I admired.

#StemBroidery #MathArt #MathSky

An embroidery in a circular hoop of the Lorentz Strange Attractor. Embroidered using backstitch and variegated thread of colors aqua, indigo, and pink. The pattern loops around giving a two lobed appearance of a butterfly.

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ted Chiang “What’s Expected of Us”
Jorge Luis Borges “The Ethnographer”

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · Sep 4

that rotary mixer is sick

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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · Sep 4

Recently reading Debord reminded me of this one-page drawing game I did based on his and other situationalist's work.

You can get Driftbook for free (or leave a tip) here: lurnoise.itch.io/driftbook

The one-page rulebook of the game in red, black and white.

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · Sep 2

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat.
This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats.

guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

The set of four stamps, with an example of a really long cat with two backsides.

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · Aug 25

Recommend you watch WE COOL? by Lackadaisy alum, Squawkwardd! Very natural flow and staging. Animation feels very grounded and human (even tho everyone is animals). One of my favorites in the "depressed modern furries with minimum wage jobs/in college" subgenre.

WE COOL? Animated Thesis Film

YouTube video by squawkwardd

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · Aug 19

big implications for astronomy

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 19

magnolia trees are one of the Earth’s earliest flowering trees, evolving before bees did—their flowers are meant to be pollinated by beetles

Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19

Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?

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chris willmore @cwillmore.bsky.social · Aug 6

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