Christian Robertson

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@Kirsten3531 Many, many averages representing all the important modalities of human understanding, but then also all of the combinations of ideas that no person has ever thought before.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@MatthewBerman Fun technique I discovered is to think about a scifi superpower. What would I do if I could generate forcefields? Teleportation? Antigravity? Nanofabricator swarms? Then I work through all the practical details and use cases. It occupies my mind but without stress.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

When the fake gets so good that reality is the uncanny valley

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@calligperson But how do you get those fine fine serifs?

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@joepemberton I count 10 distinct arrow-derived icons on this mobile screen as I type.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@joepemberton An icon is worth about 5 words. Unless it's an arrow. Then it's worth one of a thousand words. But you don't know which.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@tomcrabtree Why do fashion designers keep designing new suits? Surely the ones they designed in the seventies work just fine.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@typographica another way to devalue fonts is to increase the supply: train more type designers and make better tools. I'm all for both.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@Lorp in other news, experts have warned that teaching writing and math may lead to kids becoming mob lawyers and cartel money launderers.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@joepemberton an Adams?

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@okaytype or you could make a font from it and sell it as stock letters.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@forcebold What do you use to fill the divots from the brads?

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

Neural net rendered profile pic using shapes from a type specimen. #stylenet

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@lettersfromswe @okaytype Also different: ‘Chef’ and ‘Farmer’

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@espiekermann do you use a band saw or a hand saw?

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@WilliamBerkson It's too subtle a point for 140 chars, but TNT isn't just book spacing squished. There is more than one approach.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@alepaul en este momento quisiera pensar sobre carne argentina tambien!

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@frerejones Not upsetting. People just think the solution looks more like text and less like a logotype.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@monokromfonts @typographica Tight not touching is less even, which is why it doesn't work for text. Logotypes are different.

[Christian Robertson @cr64]

@typographica @monokromfonts The looser spacing works for text, not for the logotype. Better cohesion with a tight not touching approach.