H James Lucas

contemplator of typography, mixology, and archivism
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@mdoudoroff @DavidWondrich [waggles eyebrows suggestively]

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@mdoudoroff That blended-metal button is nice, but I bet the single-metal button is something truly excellent.

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@ThomasPhinney I don’t think I’ve been this amused by a beta’s quirks since the April 2004 version of Gmail that crashed if the message being sent contained any double spaces. (But keep at it, @affinitybyserif—I’m appreciative!)

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@CookingIssues @nytimes How much does it annoy you that Sam doesn’t accept TARTARIC in Spelling Bee?

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@CookingIssues The first act of ‘Sorry To Bother You’ proves to me that he can pull off the physical side of it, and ‘Atlanta’ makes me confident he could stick the tone too.

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@mdoudoroff Grrrr!

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@mdoudoroff From the tiny thumbnail in the notification, I thought this was nutmeg and I was about to get a heartwarming look at your eggnog and a Tony the Tiger–based pun.

But it’s just sadness.

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@flaviazim Huh! That’s new to me. Is that like ascending 3 or 5—rare but not unknown?

But regarding the Ì, I have *grave* news—it’s missing from the table entirely. (TBH, I don’t think I’ve ever used one and I wouldn’t have noticed its absence had you not mentioned it.)

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@S9k @CookingIssues @sauteslut Good on you! I always aspired to let it become ‘topping’ between tub and mouth.

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@JTDType These are nice! I especially like that you draw attention to Elfreth’s lowercase ‘r’, which goes unremarked in the main-text Koch comparison. (One heads-up: the fourth design note for Parabolica would probably benefit from an explicit mention of optical sizes.)

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@mdoudoroff Ha. Yep!

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@mdoudoroff So much fun!

I wonder how much time someone spent choosing red–black pairings that kept awkward double entries (like curaçao and scotch in the Ohio) to a minimum.

Also: rum in a White Lady? Was that ab established variant or just a house idiosyncracy?

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@CookingIssues @RanchoGordo I know you took some flak for this tweet, but it put Rancho Gordo on my radar, and we just had our first meal of their beans—Ayocote Negro with a fridge-clearing medley of onion, garlic, carrot, brussels sprout, and cod filet over totally the wrong kind of rice—and it was heaven.

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@visualgui Is this basically your life everyday? 🤦

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@gerryleonidas Congrats, Riccardo, @michele_ptn, and Gerry. I just got my copy, and it looks fabulous.

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@gerryleonidas @michele_ptn Oak Knoll Press now has copies of ‘Designing Type Revivals’ and affordable shipping within the U.S.—and the book looks great!

https://t.co/YPwndR9pJs

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I’ve already been enjoying @danielben’s forthcoming ‘Storyteller’ through the unexpectedly philosophical (and sometimes just unexpected) player feedback on the demo.

[Annapurna Interactive @A_i]

STORYTELLER from @danielben comes to Nintendo Switch and Steam on March 23, 2023. Wishlist on Steam now // https://t.co/3WN5dNObud

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@DavidWondrich @ChrisRautmann @mdoudoroff If you’re willing to accept a single-action hinge, the 6peas can’t be beat. Five years and 500–700 trips thru the dishwasher, and mine could be mistaken for new. (The handles are finished so retaining the silicon grips is optional; I didn’t.) https://t.co/OYflmdV6bV