The hardest working font in Manhattan: Excellent long read about a near-invisible font that appears everywhere, and the investigation into where it came from and why it is ubiquitous. Ultimately its a story of the analog versus the digital. Beautiful collection of illustrative photos throughout.
Ran into this interesting research from last year about reconstructing protolanguages and developing models that can move from a protolanguage to the modern variants and backwards from a modern language to its ancestor.
As for gaming this month….
Hooked on Bracket City as part of my morning word-game routine. The site started up on January 30th if you want to go back and play all the puzzles from the beginning. I definitely recommend the tutorial (the question mark button) to get started.
Very pleased to have played a round of botsbotsbots and successfully evaded detection as a human.
Also pleased to have puzzled my way through this cute little online puzzle box made with HTML and CSS.
Try to match 368 chickens. You will probably fail.