#garamond

Wow! This was a lot of fun. I’m most familiar with drawing humans so I think it came out nicely. I particularly happy with how Lace and Garamond came out.

While talking with Garamond and Zaza, either during the first encounter with him, or one or two encounters later, Hornet realizes that she's never really explained her relationship with Chell to him, and it comes up in the conversation, and she compares her relationship with Chell to Garamond's with Zaza, what with how close they are and how they fight together. Hornet then realizes what she's said/implied, and then tries to explain how they're different actually, and tries to dig herself out of the hole.

Hornet, mid digging: Not to say that our relationship is better or closer, just different, for example, we tend to fight side-by-side, or, depending on the situation, back-to-back, instead of one of us riding on the other.

Chell signs, with absolute confidence that only Hornet will understand her: To be fair, we do sometimes ride each other, though not usually while fighting. ...Depending on how you define "fighting".

Hornet, suddenly very glad that her pale mask isn't generally inclined to blush: Chell! By wyrm, you can't keep saying stuff like that. Some day we are going to encounter someone who knows your sign language.

Chell: If we ever actually get to see other humans, or at least bugs who know what humans are, maybe. But until then...

Garamond: Well, I don't know this sign language you're using, but I'm pretty sure I understand what Hornet was trying to say, and the way in which your bond differs from the one I share with Zaza.

Hornet: *Wants to die*

Original design by @souptaels

the world is an endless onslaught of terror and injustice, and it is also a place where the bartender at your restaurant job can randomly run into a playwright she really admired in her youth when she was pursuing theatre, and she can tell you the story of the encounter with such a light in her eye that you remember the worth of hope after all 🪽

Typography Tuesday

Before the holidays on December 16, the Milwaukee Public Library held its third Art Book Club session, a informal art book appreciation gathering that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation Department of the Central Library. The theme for this meeting was "Technology" and there were all manner of beautifully-designed technology books to peruse and ogle over. It was an immersive experience, and of course I was particularly pleased to spend time with the type specimen books.

This week I highlight one of those books, Specimen Book Linotype Faces, published in Brooklyn, New York by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1939. The typefaces displayed here are:

Century Bold, designed by Milwaukee-born Morris Fuller Benton in 1900.

Gothic No. 13, by Morris Fuller Benton ca. 1900.

Franklin Gothic, designed by Benton in 1903.

Metro Light, designed by W. A. Dwiggins in the early 1930s.

Garamond No. 3, originally designed for American Type Founders by Morris Fuller Benton in the late 1910s and licensed to Linotype's American branch around 1936.

Memphis, originally designed for the Stempel Type Foundry by Rudolf Wolf in 1929.

View other type specimen books.

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"Boots"

the hubbies be stylin'✨ (also, ACCIDENTAL LESBIAN FLAG LMAO)

and their kids are also stylin'!

(from top to bottom, left to right: Colonna, Broadway, Harlow, Garamond and Lindas)

YOU 👏🏻 ARE 👏🏻 NOT 👏🏻 PAPYRUS 👏🏻 AND 👏🏻 METTATON'S 👏🏻 CHILD 👏🏻 UNLESS 👏🏻 YOU 👏🏻 LOVE 👏🏻 BIG OVER-THE-TOP BOOTS!!