Emma Kumer
@EmmaKumer
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font identification machine and local jogger • designer at @washingtonpost • favorite fonts right now: rizado, sarina
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Joined February 2014
RT @Curious_Kurz: Fan fiction used to be a scarlet letter for writers trying to get traditionally published. Now, it's a bona fide pipeline….
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RT @SND: The Society for News Design is excited to announce @EmmaKumer of @washingtonpost as the World’s Best Emerging Designer for her ind….
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RT @goodhannah7: Words by @avarwallace. illustrations by me. animations by @EmmaKumer . the joint slay of the summer….
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Tennis is played on three distinct surfaces. But why do they have such an impact on how the sport is played?
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RT @ellabrockway: I’m joining 700+ of my Washington Post colleagues and walking off the job today because the company is breaking the law a….
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RT @goodhannah7: new comic about my love-hate-love again relationship with running over the past 13 years 💭. 1/
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RT @mklally9: just ran into a mourning dove on my walk home. we chatted about hooo, oouu, coo, things of that nature.
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RT @goodhannah7: how do you tell a story — one that happened over 100 years ago — as a comic? months of research and over a dozen pages of….
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RT @brandonetc: part 1 of a stunning new @washingtonpost investigation revealing the massive Smithsonian "racial brain collection." most of….
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The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.
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RT @teoarmus: NEW: Deep underground, a machine named “Hazel” is digging a 2-mile-long tunnel. It’s meant to keep millions of gallons of se….
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A massive drill is digging a tunnel deep beneath Alexandria that will keep millions of gallons of raw sewage from seeping into the Potomac River.
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Attention font Twitter!.@lmshap @geoffreyfowler and I got to the bottom of how fonts are actually tested for legibility and replicated those tests for everyone to try! Check it out, paywall-free this week:.
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RT @PostGraphics: We're those weirdos. Our latest: What’s your type? How fonts change the way you read and write.
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Fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.
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RT @lmshap: the wapo paywall is off until thursday (!!!) and we have this HOT NEW STORY about FONTS just in time 😉
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Fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.
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RT @brandonetc: some incredible work from @sarahnpineda and @EmmaKumer adapting this WaPo piece on bird sounds to the Instagram Story forma….
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RT @EmGusk: Fastest woman @EmmaKumer and fastest team including @courtneybeesch and other fast colleagues on team It Speeds It Ledes!! http….
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Just found out this is WASHINGTON POST PHOTOGRAPHY!?.
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RT @brandonetc: extremely cool: The Washington Post is up for a bunch of Webbys! on social:. for Instagram: for ver….
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Sorry i haven’t been tweeting. I’ve been making bird noises in real life.
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RT @brandonetc: tremendous @washingtonpost reporting out today:. The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramat….
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The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It's the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the firearms industry and its allies.
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RT @flabbysmith: Passed my dissertation defense yesterday!!! its Dr. Abby Smith to you plebes!! . (but actually, I have such a village tha….
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