Miscellanea, March 2025
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 … Continue reading Miscellanea, March 2025