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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Traveling type, typography, transport, Interrail, beer, knitting, art school.
Just having some fun on the internet (again), so don’t expect too many deep thoughts
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Osterei dieses Jahr in der Trendfarbe #CloudDancer gefärbt
@fontstand@typo.social Epic party❣️
Wenn in der Bordrestaurant live Speisekarte unter Snacks nur noch Ketchup und Mayo gelistet sind … #ICE5329
Companies that tell you to talk to them and then only give a local phone number are 100+% USA-based companies.
Because the USA doesn’t know that the world is more than one country and has decided to have country codes for phone numbers 100+ years ago.
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@typemytype @w__h_ @klim This rag goes against all my believes and hate for Abstürzende Kleinwörter 🙈
I can’t understand the (misunderstood?) obsession with a rhythmic rough rag over a much calmer looking smooth rag
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@elliscarsonjones@typo.social I’d recommend to put it on your own site first and then promote that on other channels. That’s the most sustainable and future-proof way, in my opinion.
Bei so Formulierungen kann man echt nur kotzen, liebe @tagesschau@ard.social
Fucking zynisch
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Oulu to Trenčin, okay-chill, in 3 days:
Train Oulu to Helsinki
7:49 to 13:39 or later
Spend night on ferry Helsinki to Tallinn, 20:30 arrive 6:00 (Viking).
Train Tallinn to Vilnius, 10:10 to 21:01
or bus 10:00 to 19:05
Spend night in Vilnius.
Train Vilnius to Trenčin via Mockava, Warsaw, Bohumin, Zilina
6:27 to 20:20
(Could add two hours of sleep by overnighting in Kaisiadorys, dep 7:13)
🧃
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@Okay@typo.social Favouriting for your image descriptions. Refreshing.
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@dobody@mastodon.design I see! That’s alas out of my league. Same general design but different details sounds like either legally traded matrices and adapted local casts or (more or less legal) electrotyped copies of – perhaps even worn – type.
Your experts in regional typography and type history:
Bulgarian Cyrillic @krista@typo.social
Baltic use of Cyrillic @AleksandraSamulenkova@typo.social
Ukrainian Cyrillic @korolevtseva@typo.social
Greek @irenevlachou@typo.social
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@sol@typo.social Propose it to Typographics Type Lab afterwards?
Dear Finland #nighttrain experts: traveling on the Aurora Borealis Express from #Oulu direction Helsinki, should I book normal “new” double deck cabin because comfy or old “blue cars” because rare, nostalgic, wider beds …? (In August, but I don’t think the missing air conditioning will be an issue or will it?)
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@tphinney@typo.social @frankrolf@typo.social What surprised me the most is that said company doesn’t even say anywhere where they are. No address or country stated anywhere except buried under Legal > Contact Information. There they say Brooklyn, NY. Luckily I know what that means. If it was Berlin and some cryptic two-letter acronym no one knows it could have been funny https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_(Begriffsklärung)
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@partim@social.tchncs.de True, but I really like Vilnius so spending an evening there seems more attractive than Kaunas to me. (Kaisiadorys tip mainly because I saw @lewd@zug.network doing that recently)
Edit: checking if lovely Kultura bar still exists and yes, another argument for the Kaunas-variant :)
I’m looking for bike-friendly hotels (in Paris). But these days search results are muddled with suspiciously generic, generated websites.
Does anyone have experience with any website like bikefriendlyhotels.com or ridgelodge.com (sounds better) or just has a manual, personal recommendation for Paris with a race bike?
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@AleksandraSamulenkova Lol this is genius! I was also baffled by the gigantic curtain-free windows in the bedroom. (Unless you wanted to have the blinds closed and light on)
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@eWalthert Music and Photos is not even the problem. Easy to backup elsewhere. Anything iCloud (messages, Jesus) but also mysterious things like the Health app cling to their GB as if there was no tomorrow. I bought a refurb 13 mini with more storage but like the “eingelaufene” unpreciousness of this 12er
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@martijn_geerdes@mastodon.social @q@glauca.space Sadly, only the Süwex RE 1 has the #Snackwägelchen (and only for half of the route, mostly between Bullay and Saarlouis, or less).
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@QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org @dobody@mastodon.design That culminated in phototype times where the (proprietary) fonts were used as incentives to buy a certain typesetting machine or model. That’s also where design copying was rampant.
When type was physical, trade was mostly local. It didn’t make sense to ship cast foundry type across the globe. You’d rather trade matrices (or a minimum character-set) and then cast the respective type to be sold locally. Also type-height and alignment was different in different places.
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@sol@typo.social Did you watch No other land yet? I have to think about it every day 😭
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@tml@mementomori.social I always enjoy smaller towns and rural places very much in the UK. Going through my map pins I have Orford on my to-visit-list, Old Hunstanton Beach, Hambledon (further south), Avebury, Shaftesbury and the national tramway museum in Cromford. And if you haven’t seen Coventry Cathedral yet, that made a lasting impression on me last fall! Definitely worth a detour and hop off a train! Amazing architecture and stone lettering!
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@tml@mementomori.social Have you been to Norwich yet? Winterton? You could make the 4th a travel day to London and see some places en route, Framlingham castle, some Cambridge. I always wanted to visit Margate but never got around to, not too far from either. And in London, have you been to the Sir John Soane’s museum yet? Brixton?
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@tml@mementomori.social Oh and if enroute, the Ely cathedral
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@tml@mementomori.social I’m just jesting. It looks decent enough! I couldn’t name any food that Aachen is famous for except Printen (ginger bread with rock sugar)
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@tml Ha, how funny. I had actually planned to go there today, too. (But weather report was too rainy for a long-ish bike tour). Enjoy!
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@XR_Nuernberg@mstdn.social Komisch, überall Kartoffeln zu viel aber im Laden kosten sie trotzdem noch das gleiche. Der Markt regelt also … nichts?
Tolle Aktion!
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@typotheque@typo.social Ha! That’s a plan.
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@tops@im-in.space Ah, crap, TramEM! I have tentative plans for Skopje around that time. (I kind of booked that into a non European place this time, no idea why.) But I think Trenčin is fun to try any time this late summer. Haven’t checked the program yet but I don’t actually care that much about it. It’s usually always worthwhile, whatever is on.
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@tml@mementomori.social Yeah, but I liked the prospect of a late arrival because I don’t know yet if I want to get out in Tampere, Hämeenlinna or Helsinki. (Stands in Oulu for 50 minutes so probably possible to board early.) But thanks! That is good information
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@ojars@kapteinis.lv @sebwilken@mastodon.social Of course :) Currently pondering wether to take the ~fast route back via ferry to Stockholm or the loooong way all across the baltic states and Poland. Or ferry from Liepāja. Is that a nice place to visit?
Toffifee
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@kai I would say plus fixed w. The room belongs to the quote and isn’t really a word space. Says the who doesn’t speak French 🙈
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@AleksandraSamulenkova We had Verdunklungsvorhänge, but no thin ones. I’m missing the professional terms here 🙈
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@eWalthert yeah I don’t use online music (album-purchase person) and I don’t even sync messages with iCloud. No idea why it has 26 GB of messages on it and I can’t find a way to get it off there manually.
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@ShokoMugikura totally the right amount of niche! I very much look forward to it
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@QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org @dobody@mastodon.design Trade of matrices for typesetting machines was easier, and definitely analog and digital phototype in the 1960–80s.
Cyrillic foundry type companies probably traded matrices among themselves and with Latin-using partners or mother companies (Berthold for instance had a branch in Russia). Cyrillic was developed from Latin design and localised characters for the different languages using Cyrillic.
Do you have any concrete example/typeface we can help with?
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@eWalthert @kai I don’t know what else to delete 😂 maybe 17 is fine for now, too
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@frankrolf@typo.social Just goes to show that they think there aren’t any other countries with phone lines
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@denniskoch@phpc.social Haha. Hab’ lieber noch ein altes, trockenes Brötchen gegessen.
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@eWalthert @vasilis @kai I have that battery pack interdependency anyway but happy if I don’t get less hours out of it for sure. I mainly don’t want to upgrade for the horrendous looks and usability. Already disliked all the changes to the Photos app etc in 18
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@tops@im-in.space Ah, maybe that news was what I remembered