Eine Hommage an das ehemalige Blackboard-Blog der Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, betreut von Michael Seh (Gaststudium an der Städelschule 2022–2023). Diese Seite wird nicht von der Städelschule betrieben.
A tribute to the former Blackboard blog of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, maintained by Michael Seh, former guest student at the Städelschule (2022–2023). This site is not operated by the Städelschule.
My dad blessed us with some potato balls and bread from Porto’s. I saved the bag the food came in and traced the chef hat by hand with the pen tool. Big love to a family business that has fed so many people in LA. Shout out to my childhood homie Brandon (who smokes a crazy good brisket on the side) and his soon-to-be wife Naila, plus Antonio and Betty, for all the hard work. Real ones.
Mike, Danny, David, Alexs, and Reza, in wet concrete, twelve years ago this week.
Kinross’ Modern Typography as someone who needs +2.25 reading glasses sees it.
Glasses borrowed from Middlebrow’s homepage. Reading glasses bring close text back into focus and make it a little bigger, too.
My little sister’s number starts with (310). Every time she calls, I think of this:
Props to her for the boujee LA area code. No shade to the (818).
Had a great Indian meal, and on the way out saw these words on the awning. Somehow they made it even better. Drew my own version at home, loose and a little awkward on purpose. Blame the spicy food. My favorite part is how much space the B takes up.
Looks like Cooper Black, but the letters don’t quite line up. The P in PRO sits too high. I like it anyway. Strip mall lettering hits different in the summer. So do pylon signs (not pictured), the tall ones out by the street listing every store in the lot. I only just learned that term from my mom, who would know.
34.107225, -117.380696
Photo: Ryu Ji-hyun
Resharing a finger-drawn plate on a dusty fourth-gen Camry. Questionable method, solid imitation of a license plate. Wish I’d never sold this car.
I had taken off my LA Dodgers hat while driving and it was sitting in the passenger seat. It had me trying to remember this artist who raked the LA logo into dirt. It took a while, and after giving up I asked my friend Lucas, who knew the name of the artist. Jakob Longcob.
The stick-on numbers from the hardware store. The little vinyl digits off the rack. The ones you grab for labeling a mailbox or slaps.
“E” and “P” in hand letters.
Select All is now on Primary Foundry’s library. You can download it there alongside fonts from other foundries and designers.
Primary Foundry is run by Jonathan Maghen out of Los Angeles. The library is a curated collection of open-source typefaces available under the Open Font License.
A font isn’t just letters someone drew. It’s a file with dozens of hidden parts that all have to work together or your text won’t show right. The left shows the parts list. The middle is you trying to put it all together. The right is you reading the spec. Every font engineer has been all three of these people. I still get confused on what all the parts do. Learning as I go.