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Today's #FoxTrot comic is about #LoremIpsum: https://foxtrot.com/2026/07/19/lorem-ipsum/ 🤓 I'd like to point you to this great video that reveals some interesting facts on Lorem Ipsum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4For example: it's not even #Latin 😜 #typography #comics #cartoonists

@matt Is that the Metro stop for the main rail station? (I'm assuming the word means the same in Ukrainian as it does in Russian, weirdly derived from the Vauxhall pleasure garden in 19th-century London).#language #Ukrainian #etymology

wonderfula 1937 book on printing type turned into a websitehttps://www.c82.net/printing-types/#typography #printing #history

From Kunstrichtige Schreibart (1655).Source: The Getty / Internet Archivehttps://pdimagearchive.org/images/3a7fbd5a-6f08-4e0a-934b-79a09f12f6b7#type #alphabets #decorative #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

Say, have you heard of this new font called "Times Roman"?Merganthaler Linotype ad, 1950#fonts #typography

@derPUPE Oh, that pesky and unstoppable WHK!

@0xabad1dea They do it with fish too

Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archivehttps://pdimagearchive.org/images/9eeb59e5-ceb3-46cd-87cd-dacdcf74b2ec#initials #typography #design #lettering #art #publicdomain

@markarayner I truly lol’d

@scruss I love this actually. Still worse than fixed width non script fonts, monospace blocky fonts my beloved.But legitimately, the letters all being the same and being fixed width make it so much easier for me to read compared to most script fonts.

Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archivehttps://pdimagearchive.org/images/7ff72257-873f-42bb-809a-f44118421197#initials #typography #design #lettering #art #publicdomain