Through Lines 137

Although England lost to France earlier today in the World Cup, they still win at football if only for this bit from Taskmaster Series 12.

• This elaborate full-size cardboard Heidelberg Letterpress is quite possibly one of the most incredible pieces of paper engineering I think I’ve come across. Holy moly!
• I’m intrigued by the quite unexpected sound of this new song from Peter Gabriel as teased in his Full Moon Club monthly newsletter earlier this week. Also excited for the return of drummer Manu Katché to his band!
• Fontjoy will generate interesting font pairings for you using artificial intelligence. No guarantees that they’re actually any good though. Alternatively, Google released a new article on pairing using the font matrix.
• Intrigued by Lyn as a possible replacement for Lightroom which, after several years, I still find infuriatingly slow and tedious to use for managing my photo library.
• Add the Webster's 1913 dictionary to the Dictionary app on macOS with this handy, re-styled version from Craig Mod.
• Scientists have discovered a new nearly invisible black hole hiding closer to Earth than previously known — a mere 1,600 light years away.
• Orion passed by the moon on December 8 (just a couple days ago) and captured the moment so we can all see.
• The iconic Blue Marble photo, 50 years on.
• I guess it’s finally time to book that long-desired trip to New Zealand now that I can rent a Hobbit hole in the Shire. I’m sure these will fill up quickly.
• How to pronounce Riso… because knowing is half the battle.
• Degrowth is an idea that caught my attention.

Notable Type Releases

• Eurocat from Maxitype sits somewhere between pixel display type or dot matrix printing within the limits of CRT displays. Unexpectedly also available for free.
• I think Colophon Foundry’s new Chromatic qualifies as a super-family given the massive range of widths and weights included which give it a huge range of voices.
• The friendly yet quirky Factor B from Interval Type has conceptual roots in the form of Futura but pushes those forms into a strange, unexpected alternative reality.
• The elegant classic forms in Resonay from TypeMates seem to be almost hiding the layer effects possible with the variety of styles included in the family.
• Spyk Text from Studio Rene Bieder is not subtle, but instead loud, vivacious, and razor sharp in all the right ways. A real stunner!
• The 80s are alive in Dalton Maag’s radical Shader Color featuring wild, original styles such as CMYK and RGB Glitch, Shader 16, and Shader 64.