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Today, Big Bend Sentinel appears with a new logo, adapted by John Downer from the script dating from August 1950.
The mountainscape view from Marfa came from Google Earth, with a little AI help.
You can still get a copy of the print edition mailed to you (in the U.S.) for no more than $1.20 a week!
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The Big Bend Sentinel gets deserved recognition on the CBS Evening News.
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”The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally”
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“Margaret Thatcher didn't laugh like that. Did she? Did she laugh?
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RogerBlack retweeted
“Big. Bold. The opposite of Helvetica! Giza from @fontbureau is, for me, the quintessential slab serif typeface. It has the core characteristics of the great Egyptians.” — Roger Black
See the picks from the rest of the TN team here: buff.ly/3Zr44ed
: The Moratorium demonstrations, the Vietnam protests of 1969, are recounted in a doc on PBS tonight. David Hawk was a key player. He got me involved that April in the opening bell of protests against Nixon.
The doc:
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My 15 minutes:
rogerblack.com/blog/post/my_…
. . . I was pushed outside to a bunch of TV cameras. Then one of the reporters pushed a big mike with a foam cover into may face. He said, "Dan Rather, CBS News." And I was on!
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Clip starts at minute 10.
The whole story:
rogerblack.com/blog/post/my_…
: Dan Rhatigan @ultrasparky launches @BijouType. Love all-caps Ringold, with 5 juicy styles. Inspired by Letraset-fueled men's magazines of the 70s (themselves inspired by racy men's adventure magazines of the 50s. @TypeNetwork
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: Tip to @realDonaldTrump. New nickname for DeSantis.
Ron Sargassum
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: Customer service is not improving with AI, or I am getting crankier, or both. Case in point, @AmericanAir told me my mileage number was wrong. Yet I still log into the app and website with 6*****4, the number they gave me 40+ years ago when they started the “Aadvantage” program
: FEVZI YAZICI IS FREE! He was locked up by the Turkish regime for his work at Zaman, now shuttered. 6 years ago. In jail he drew an exuberant and original typeface, named for Firdevs, his wife.
Buy a font! The foundry's proceeds go to Fevzi.
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Loche Lo Celso, Fernanda Cozzi, and Rodrigo Saiani explain the influence of place and culture on type design. Saiani sums it up: “Trends point toward expression, stemming from knowing what you stand for and not being shy about it.”
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@TypeNetwork
@Kroger : What 's going on with the scheduling in your system? I placed an order, confirmed for 10-11 AM. Then I added two items, and didn't notice you switched delivery to PM. Called and they said, wait 12 hours. So went back to look at the site, and yeah. Messed up.
: Earth to @SpaceX. Stop throttling Starlink in Ukraine! The people there are trying to defend themselves from a foreign invasion. More than 7,000 civilians have been killed so far, according to the UN. The survivors need your internet!
Cc: @elonmusk @SpaceXStarlink
: Alexandra Petri considers the state department’s choice of Calibri (Luc de Groot) as it’s go-to text font.
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: Thank you Rep-Elect Luna (@realannapaulina) for stopping the start of Congress and exposing the GOP as a quarrelling group of losers. If you are ever sworn in, enjoy your last term! We’ll find someone in ’24 who will actually do something for the people of our district, FL-13.
🧳If you need a reason never to check a bag again, look at “tweets and replies” at @British_Airways.
(Cc. @Brian_nhs)