(b)logophile

Recently I’ve discovered some fun new things about fonts, in LaTeX and under linux. (Yes, it’s another geek-out post. Sorry mum.) All this stuff can be found online (that’s where I found it), but it’s a bit scattered around. And I can’t remember where any of it is. Summary: XeTeX gives LaTeX access to non-TeX-installed [...]

From the back cover of “Typographie als voertuig van de wetenschap” (“Typography as vehicle of science”): Dit is op aarde van al ‘t kwaad de grootste straf: Wie eenmal lezen kan, die leert het nooit meer af. Of all the evil on the earth this is the greatest pain: Who once has learned to read, [...]

Not-my-supervisor Robert put me onto this hilarious design, which it seems he found at Laughing Squid (original by Steven Frank): Laughing Squid has a follow-up with a bunch of other typophile tees.

Just a note on why I haven’t raved about Rome: I didn’t see much of it. And I didn’t get lost, or deliver my talk to the wrong conference, or save the Pope from an embarrassing situation involving jellied eels, or anything else noteworthy. I did a little sightseeing but at night, so the monumental [...]