Talking about italics during #fontstand dinner: ”Jesus was cursified for our sins!”
Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
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Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @boldmonday@mastodon.online type foundry
Teacher at KABK @TypeMedia@typo.social
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Apr 06, 2026
Bloemsma’s BASIC application contains an editor to draw shapes with straight segments and then renders them as 3D wireframe models. As a purely speculative experiment I converted one of Bloemsma’s most recognisable designs – the lowercase s of FF Balance – and let it render in his own application. #ZXSpectrum #basic #programming #TypeDesign
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Paul van der Laan
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Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
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Apr 04, 2026
Last Thursday at ESAD in Amiens I showed my recreation of 3D programming experiments that Evert Bloemsma did in the mid 1980s. For this purpose I used printed examples of his BASIC source code and made it work again on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum homecomputer. @esadtype@mastodon.social #ZXSpectrum #basic #programming
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Apr 02, 2026
Jaap van Triest guiding students through the Evert Bloemsma exhibition at ESAD in Amiens.
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
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Mar 31, 2026
@onpaperwings @letterror Count me in if you need more input. I’ll be in Berlin too!
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
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Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
Paul van der Laan
@paulvanderlaan@typo.social
Founding Partner and Chief Font Fixer @ boldmonday type foundry Teacher at KABK @ TypeMedia Retro computing enthusiast
typo.social
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Jan 07, 2026
Did anyone ever notice that Avenir LT has some serious errors in the descender lengths of p and q in certain weights?
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