Come to next week’s online Fonts & AI conference! I will give a talk explaining how particular legal and economic considerations will likely drive particular group(s) of players to be the first to make AI-generated fonts available. https://t.co/PlR3KV16kU

Posted 1st draft of my glossary of typography terms for document examiners! Just in time for the NADE/AFDE joint conference for document examiners in Kansas City, where I will be speaking on Sunday. https://t.co/zSxfxjDZs4

I do a little dance every time I remember that I designed, coded and hosted this webpage all by myself ❇️

As Chair of the Stanford ATypI Local Organizing Committee, it's an absolute pleasure to share: the 2026 ATypI Call for Proposals is Officially OPEN! https://t.co/z2X2g6VVDi You can learn more about the conference themes for Stanford and Sharjah. /1

Help Tom Out this Weekend! I just learned that the MingKwai story is the *cover* article of the tomorrows Sunday New York Times Metro section! I’m not able to get a copy of my own tomorrow, so I need to Crowdsource this. /1

Me at dinner: "Strapping ChatGPT to your product's forehead does not make it a unicorn!"

CenturyLink advertises 99.9% uptime. I experienced 99.0% in 2024, 98% in 2025. I switched to another provider; was back online last Sunday two hours after making the decision. If I had stayed with CenturyLink, the repair person would have arrived some time this coming Friday.

CenturyLink had amazing fiber performance and some of the best customer service I had ever experienced — ten years ago. But now it is Comcast-cable-internet–level customer service. Their fiber is great WHEN UP, but after 6+ hours chat wait, then a week for repair? I canceled.

What are some (more) good variable fonts for demo purposes? Obvious candidates include Roboto Flex, Amstelvar, Decovar, DJR’s Fit. Besides Google Fonts I have Adobe Fonts through Creative Cloud, and am open to licensing (or contacting the designer). Why?

New Rust-based version of the C++ HarfBuzz text engine gets its first official 0.1 release. https://t.co/npRtugJleb Still much to do. Notably, HarfRust benchmarks 3x slower than HarfBuzz. Also fails 23 of 6000 tests. See more info here:

Yet another way in which Adobe (among others, they are not alone) support for variable fonts is totally brain dead. Go to https://t.co/HKwjPBl8uC and check out the lovely new Adobe Aldine. Set weight and optical size. Change from regular to italic and lose those settings. Sigh.

The Patent Office’s new policy protects patent trolls instead of fixing its own mistakes.

African type designers, font devs, and engineers—our revolution is here! North, South, East, West, Central: our 5 regions are rising. Join us! Drop your IG handle or DM me your name + handles to be part of our growing community.🇪🇹 🇳🇬 🇬🇭 🇿🇼 🇰🇪 #africantypography #africantypedesign

If you are interested in the market for font editors, please do NOT buy this report. The PR piece describing it has many falsehoods and absurdities throughout. https://t.co/Ed0VHHQ7At That said, you CAN play the game of “name your FAVORITE lie or falsehood” from the report!

I have just launched a GoFundMe to help me complete the history of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) that I began writing before the pandemic shut everything down. Please take a look, and spread the word. https://t.co/w7pGBqnOGT

Special thanks to @mrkvlmrvc who worked closely with me to bring my idea to life; @simoncharwey, @davelab6 & @ThomasPhinney who all made this possible; @ebensorkin & @LisaLisahuang for their valued feedback, and everyone else who contributed to the success of this typeface! ✨

I just backed John Berry’s GoFundMe to write the history of ATypI, the global fonts and typography association, which started in 1957. Check it out and support it!

Happy New Year!! I just released my first typeface in collaboration with Google Fonts! Agụ Display, a decorative, rounded, sans-serif display typeface featuring a morphing substitution axis that makes the letters dance, Agụ Display brings the ancient mystique of Nsibidi

What is that symbol with an X in a rectangle and why do you get it? It’s called a “notdef”: https://t.co/PxhKfnX0cu