Simon Stratford™

Digital artist—I create custom fonts for advertising agencies, ready to buy fonts for designers and digital oil painting for TV and print.

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Jessica Hische, Meta’s Muse, and the Ethical Landmines of Design https://t.co/YACujKpsvC

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Comic Sans: don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

https://t.co/693LzjZVbu

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https://t.co/yIQNe2Q5Y8

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This is why Royal Mail’s a bloody shambles. If you don’t know where my parcel is, don’t send me a message announcing it.

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The Lowercase Type Trend Explained https://t.co/JCkTlLfA4Y

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And here is chatgtp with same prompt

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I asked Claude to describe my profile picture and fed that into Dola ai—here is the result

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I’ve spent forty minutes adjusting the kerning. Nobody will notice. That’s how I know it’s good.

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@VaibhavSisinty This smells like marketing bullshit!

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Even the font is stupid.

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@dribbble Pot, kettle—you lost your compass ages ago when you pushed for profit, designers left you in droves!

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Today’s rain feels surprisingly dramatic, mainly because we’ve forgotten what it looks like!

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Got a bbc weather watcher pick yesterday #bbcweatherwatcher

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Finally my cold has gone!

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Saturday plans: brunch, proper coffee, browse things I don’t need, buy something I definitely don’t need, then complain about how expensive everything is.

A perfectly balanced lifestyle.

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I opened social media for inspiration and Temu tried to sell me a folding sink.

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Procrastination is my enemy today. Bacon or sausage on my roll at Greggs—HP Sauce is non-negotiable!

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Hoping to get my new variable font Pumped Up Kicks released this week.

#FontDesign

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The client wants the logo bigger. I want to live in a detached house in Richmond.

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It’s hump day—yes! Loving the new Glyphs app but early doors.