#meno

[EN TL] [Mar 6, Gold Ship Birthday]

Lake Superior, 2025 by Jef Bourgeau.

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"Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Three years ago I was giving a workshop in the Rockies. A student came in bearing a quote from what she said was the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It read, "How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" I copied it down, and it has stayed with me since. The student made big transparent photographs of swimmers underwater and hung them from the ceiling with the light shining through them, so that to walk among them was to have the shadows of swimmers travel across your body in a space that itself came to seem aquatic and mysterious. The question she carried struck me as the basic tactical question in life. The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration - how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?"

Can you help me figure out what fonts are used in the logo for the game "ANNO 2070"?

For the word "ANNO", the closest I've been able to find is "ITC New Esprit", but the serifs and stroke widths are slightly different from both "Regular" and "Medium" styles.

For "2070", the closest I've been able to find is "Innerspring JNL", but the stroke widths are slightly different and the slope of the stem on the "7" is way off... and also, Fontspring says this font was released in 2015, while the game was released in 2011, so the game couldn't have used this specific font.

I think "ANNO" is in Meno Bold (1994) [Fonts In Use]. The current version of Meno was updated in 2016 and may not be exactly the same as the original.

"2070" is in Zeroes (1999) [Fonts In Use], which you can download here.

“We are a different beast now.”

Artfight attack against @pillowspace and their amazing au! Words cannot even begin to describe my feelings about these three omfg (they can, this post would just be too long) so seriously go check out Celestial Sundown and all the other awesome stuff Pillow makes!

Epic songs used (because the Epic chokehold on me continues):

Scylla

Suffering

Monster

No longer you

Different Beast (in caption only because I couldn’t resist using it in a more heartbreaking context)