Alley πilgrimage

So Thursday was Pi Day.  You know, because 3/14 looks like π which is 3.14 and more. We’ve been over much of this before. But this Pi Day I decided that I should visit Boston’s Pi Alley at 1:59pm because that would be 3/14 1:59.  Yeah, slow news day, I...

My squabble with Typography Scrabble

I like Scrabble, I like the Oxford comma, and I like typography.  So why does the a new Scrabble set for Typographers (or at least people who like type) have me so out of sorts?   For those not hep enough to know, Typographer’s Scrabble is a redesigned Scrabble...

The Types that Bind

I was sitting in class, having completed an exercise a little early, and this doodle appeared, more or less unbidden, under my mouse. Cold and hungry, I guess. Notice what’s happening with the “ffl” in “waffles” That’s a typographic...