Johannes López Ayala
@typographer.bsky.social
Design, writing, art, philosophy, jazz, fonts. Lots of fonts. ⦿ Didn’t think I’d turn my profile into a moodboard, but here we go ⦿ Mastodon: https://typo.social/@jla
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Painting by Marie Lenclos ‘Coming Home’ 2020.
Oil on linen. Size: 73 x 54 cm.
Oil on linen. Size: 73 x 54 cm.
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Painting by Marie Lenclos ‘Coming Home’ 2020.
Oil on linen. Size: 73 x 54 cm.
Oil on linen. Size: 73 x 54 cm.
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Strange Geometry. Les Étoiles, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
Photograph: Robert Doisneau
Photograph: Robert Doisneau
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Strange Geometry. Les Étoiles, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
Photograph: Robert Doisneau
Photograph: Robert Doisneau
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mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
I’m now 3½ hours into “CMブレーク 「Complete Volume」“. That’s 244 tracks or 7+ hours of vintage plunderphonics/nipponwave canned advertising, jingles, and broadcast announcements. asutenki-archive.bandcamp.com/album/cm-com...
CMブレーク 「Complete Volume」, by 天気予報
244 track album
asutenki-archive.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’m now 3½ hours into “CMブレーク 「Complete Volume」“. That’s 244 tracks or 7+ hours of vintage plunderphonics/nipponwave canned advertising, jingles, and broadcast announcements. asutenki-archive.bandcamp.com/album/cm-com...
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I like my neighbors, but I can never accept their constantly shouting at “ALEXA!!” (apparently mid-conversation) for picking the wrong song as perfectly sane and normal behavior.
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I like my neighbors, but I can never accept their constantly shouting at “ALEXA!!” (apparently mid-conversation) for picking the wrong song as perfectly sane and normal behavior.
I haven’t slept in 52 hours and random people keep stopping to compliment me on my make-up tonight? WTF
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I haven’t slept in 52 hours and random people keep stopping to compliment me on my make-up tonight? WTF
I don’t know about you, but I love when I’m asked to ‘create a free account to keep reading’.
It means that I can close the browser window, forget about that particular news source forever, and enjoy 15 free minutes I would’ve lost to a less than insightful article otherwise.
It means that I can close the browser window, forget about that particular news source forever, and enjoy 15 free minutes I would’ve lost to a less than insightful article otherwise.
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I don’t know about you, but I love when I’m asked to ‘create a free account to keep reading’.
It means that I can close the browser window, forget about that particular news source forever, and enjoy 15 free minutes I would’ve lost to a less than insightful article otherwise.
It means that I can close the browser window, forget about that particular news source forever, and enjoy 15 free minutes I would’ve lost to a less than insightful article otherwise.
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Star Funk 🇺🇸 She Can't Love You / Feel the Same (Radio) · Sweet Tooth T www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXw_... 🎵🇺🇸🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵 🇺🇸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fG... 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Star Funk 🇺🇸 She Can't Love You / Feel the Same (Radio) · Sweet Tooth T www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXw_... 🎵🇺🇸🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵 🇺🇸 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fG... 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵
Had to work with PowerPoint for a few days straight and gained the impression it knows ~exactly~ how to make a designer suffer.
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Had to work with PowerPoint for a few days straight and gained the impression it knows ~exactly~ how to make a designer suffer.
Got a spam mail trying to sell me the ugliest tech gadget ever.
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Got a spam mail trying to sell me the ugliest tech gadget ever.
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New Oo Press poem-object, *bookshelf poem (as the dust)*. Polished grey jesmonite in custom made presentation box. £35 including postage anywhere. Buy at Oo-press.com/poem-objects or DM me xx
August 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New Oo Press poem-object, *bookshelf poem (as the dust)*. Polished grey jesmonite in custom made presentation box. £35 including postage anywhere. Buy at Oo-press.com/poem-objects or DM me xx
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One and a half letters and an ampersand to go:
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
One and a half letters and an ampersand to go:
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Dune with Green Top - 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104356
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104356
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Dune with Green Top - 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104356
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104356
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Gertrude Abercrombie.
Demolition Doors. 1964, oil on masonite, 51 x 62 cm.
Demolition Doors. 1964, oil on masonite, 51 x 62 cm.
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Gertrude Abercrombie.
Demolition Doors. 1964, oil on masonite, 51 x 62 cm.
Demolition Doors. 1964, oil on masonite, 51 x 62 cm.
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Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën GSX … de 1975
October 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën GSX … de 1975
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This building inside a Portuguese University r/brutalism
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This building inside a Portuguese University r/brutalism
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Cakes and candy, hotdogs and cheese.
The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday.
courtauld.ac.uk
The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday.
courtauld.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Cakes and candy, hotdogs and cheese.
The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday.
courtauld.ac.uk
The paintings of Wayne Thiebaud are on show at The Courtauld from Friday.
courtauld.ac.uk
Book design • UI/UX design • Corporate design
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Book design • UI/UX design • Corporate design
I have shelves full of paper in all weights, hues, and sizes. But whenever I need a sheet, I end up taking it out of the printer.
October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I have shelves full of paper in all weights, hues, and sizes. But whenever I need a sheet, I end up taking it out of the printer.
This is what all normal people look like to introverts.
Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is what all normal people look like to introverts.
Has there been a serious attempt at creating a “dyslexia-friendly” font like Dyslexie or OpenDyslexic yet?
“Serious” as in “applying basic principles of type design”, like avoiding lumpy curves, spacing letters evenly, etc.
“Serious” as in “applying basic principles of type design”, like avoiding lumpy curves, spacing letters evenly, etc.
October 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Has there been a serious attempt at creating a “dyslexia-friendly” font like Dyslexie or OpenDyslexic yet?
“Serious” as in “applying basic principles of type design”, like avoiding lumpy curves, spacing letters evenly, etc.
“Serious” as in “applying basic principles of type design”, like avoiding lumpy curves, spacing letters evenly, etc.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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First time rowing on a Concept 2 rower. That thing is a dystopian steampunk machine straight out of a Mad Max movie.
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
First time rowing on a Concept 2 rower. That thing is a dystopian steampunk machine straight out of a Mad Max movie.
“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, achieves what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: one’s inner power.”
― Paul Gauguin
― Paul Gauguin
July 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, achieves what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: one’s inner power.”
― Paul Gauguin
― Paul Gauguin