Jason Santa Maria
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👋 Available for contract design projects. Designer of many different kinds of rectangles — UX, products, books, branding, fonts, and words. Previously […] 🌉 bridged from https://typo.social/@jasonsantamaria on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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🧵 Small thread, just because! I love pencils. I love drawing and writing with them, the smell when you sharpen them, and how damn pleasing they are to pick up anytime and get ideas out of your head. They are my favorite creative tool, bar none.
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It’s me, stumbling around the kitchen (my ghost install) trying to find the coffee (my ability to write words about networks in this wild year).

Which is to say: Still here, still hammering away on a lot of things. Still don’t know what will happen! […]
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Damn, this is a wonderful read from @klim on the why-now of their latest release, Die Grotesk, a Helvetica-revival. But even more, it’s a honest look on creativity, craft, resistance and acceptance. I came up in design at the same time and shared so many of these […]

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Screenshot from the linked post at Klim, the text reads:

And yet, the question remains: why have another go at Helvetica? The truth is I’m arrogant enough to think I can make something good, and angry that the trademark holders squander the design. I’m realistic enough to know my sales will not make a dent in the man’s bottom line. I’m old enough to know the line between creative integrity and selling out is extremely blurry. I’m thirsty enough to want designers to buy and use my fonts. And, after 20 hard years of drawing letters, I am now confident enough in my ability because I have never been afraid to spend the actual time getting good.

It seems easy having a go at the most popular font. It’s actually really fucking hard to exhale two decades of stale breath and re-draw the typographic air that surrounds us.
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There are lots of fun little details throughout (I like the DJR brand calculator), but most of all I just had a blast making something playful. Enjoy!
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📢 New work: I created a microsite for DJR’s type family Megazoid.

https://djr.com/megazoid

This was a super fun project with one of my favorite type designers. I love that we got to be BIG and colorful. I wrote up a short post about the project and DJR’s library […]
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Hot damn! Good buddy Rob Weychert has relaunched his site and it’s full of beautiful details. He wrangled nearly everything he’s ever written online into an archivist’s garden (including from many defunct services).

The design is slick too — I love the use of OH no’s Degular type family and the […]
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The latest version of @Iconfactory’s app Tot came out this week and it’s great! I use it regularly throughout my week as a holding area to stash little notes, quick lists, or draft up messages to post elsewhere.

Such a nice little text utility that you can use dozens of different ways. Also […]
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I spotted some (I think) letterpress job cases in the background of last night’s Alien: Earth episode, but I don’t recognize them. Not the California layout. Seems similar to some Thompson cases I’ve found online.

Can anyone identify them? cc @nicksherman
Screengrab from Alien Earth episode 4. Dim interior office setting, art on the background wall appears to be letterpress job cases styled with orange, red, and yellow coloring in the compartments.
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@classicweb Such a classic design! I remember looking under the hood here more than once.
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🧵 Small thread, just because! I love pencils. I love drawing and writing with them, the smell when you sharpen them, and how damn pleasing they are to pick up anytime and get ideas out of your head. They are my favorite creative tool, bar none.