Andrew Graham

@andrewgraham

Cymro yng Ngogledd Iwerddon a Sir Benfro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Does web things. Frustrated typeface designer. Wednesday Night Runner. Retro Oner. Taskmaster fan. Hambon. 📍Lisburn

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Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· 3d

I see Bruce Forsyth is doing the captions

A TV showing the news. The caption reads: LIVE Cornwall Cornwall LIVE

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· 7d

Ah, Pembroke Dock ferry terminal. I think this must be the inspiration for Severance

A dated kitchen serving area, long since disused, with an empty display cabinet and a cream counter top. There is a green carpet. I say green, but it’s the colour they use for cigarette packets

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· 14d

Anyway I am at the eisteddfod ready for Super Furry Animals

A festival site with a large covered stage. Many people are sat on the yellow grass.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· 28d

Hello Jackie, you look nice

A selfie of me standing in front of a detached suburban house (the house from Friday Night Dinner)

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· 28d

Is it a good likeness? Well, it’s a little bit funny

A mural of Elton John in full Watford kit, sitting on a football. In front of the murals are some turnstile entrances (Vicarage Road, Watford)

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Jul 4

I am in Aberystwyth, which is one of my favourite places in the world, but typographically difficult to space

Aberystwyth promenade. A shingle beach and the sea to the left, a row of elegant town houses in the middle distance, and a hill in the distance

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Jun 28

Saw The Cure tonight. They were fab.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Jun 13

Might add a little postscript to my blog post series on Electronic Shelf Labels. I bought a four-colour one from AliExpress and managed to reverse engineer the image format

Me holding an Electronic Shelf Label in front of my laptop screen. Both the screen preview and the shelf label are displaying a picture of me in a coffee shop.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Jun 13

Nice! My 4-colour one arrived today and have figured out the image format

A picture of me holding up an Electronic Shelf Label in front of my laptop screen. Both the screen preview and the label say ‘Hello’ in various colours

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Jun 11

Get cracking on the Sean Connery jokes now, folks

A screenshot of the rear of a South African footballer whose surname on his shirt reads ‘Sithole’

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· May 9

“Let’s start with the name. Paul McCartney literally means Paul, son of Cartney”

An extract from a news article. “Who is Rhun ap Iorwerth? Let’s start with the name. Rhun ap Iorwerth literally means Rhun, son of Iorwerth - Iorwerth being a Welsh form of Edward.”

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· May 2

So I’ve made another font, 22 years after I last released one. Very proud of this one. I’m hoping to release it in the summer - all depends on admin shenanigans though. But watch this space.

A typeface specimen. The name, Sooker, runs down the right hand side. On the left, the seven different weights, from Light to Black.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Apr 12

Back in Northern Ireland

A sign hanging in a Tesco with a big X in a red circle. The sign also reads: You cannot buy alcohol at this checkout

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Mar 29

Absolutely loved Copenhagen. Flawless public transport, clean, chilled and relaxed vibe. Did my 50th parkrun too!

The iconic Little Mermaid statue. A statue of a little mermaid perched on a rock.

The entrance to Tivoli Gardens. A high ornate arch lit up with lights around the edges. A large daffodil sculpture hangs from the arch

Nyhavn. A row of colourful buildings alongside the edge of a port.

A selfie of me at a beach in front of a sign that reads ‘parkrun Amager Strandpark’

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 26

Dusted off an old typeface experiment of mine, a horizontal contrast italic serif. Tidying it up and trying out a few uppercase letters. I'm starting to love it. It's weird but has the familiarity of old italics, so is surprisingly readable #typography

Some text set in a horizontal contrast italic serif typeface

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 21

Did Teifi Marshes parkrun this morning and it was lovely

In a cafe with an americano and a pack of Welsh cakes resting on a wooden table next to a big glass window and the countryside outside

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 20

…yn berwi yn y car

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 13

I can’t believe these figure skaters are doing their Wordles at the same time, no wonder they’re all falling over

A still of the figure skating scores on a TV screen. It looks like a Wordle row.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 13

Football commentators at BBC Winter Olympics planning meetings

Alan Partridge sat at a restaurant table talking to someone off-camera (Tony Hayers of course). The caption reads "Can I just shock you? I like curling)

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Feb 10

Maybe the Milano Cortina logo was designed by a Metallica fan

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Oct 9

Going to witness some real life Cymru Connecting

A selfie of me in front of a golden bridge. In the distance is an arena with an illuminated display advertising Elis James and John Robins

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Oct 7

Forgot it was Cardiff v Newport tonight

A group of excitable folk marching along a wide city centre street in the middle distance

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Oct 1

Old enough to remember this

A screengrab of a 1980s Australian TV programme. A group of medics operating on a patient in a dark operating theatre. Some large overlaid text reads: The Young Doctors

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 29

Gwych! Nice! The Wikipedia page for Patagonian Welsh is trending on Hacker News

A partial screengrab of the Hacker News website. Patagonian Welsh has risen to number 21 on the list on the home page

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 22

Disappointed that 90% of my official half marathon photos are of me struggling to turn off Strava

A picture of me in running gear fiddling with my Apple Watch

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 21

Did the Belfast Half Marathon today and achieved my goal of running it all the way. Woohoo!

A selfie of me gurning like an idiot. Behind me in the middle distance is the finish line of a half marathon. There are flags and barriers and a few other runners have crossed the line too.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 11

Tenuous Taskmaster series 20 connection: my font was used in the opening titles of Sanjeev Bhaskar’s sitcom

A picture of a street corner in India. Hovering in the sky are the words “Sanjeev Bhaskar” in a frankly wonderful font

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 8

I was waiting for the NYT Connections shade, and my goodness it did not disappoint

A still from the Connecting Wall round of Only Connect. In the four by four grid we can see (among other words) Vertex, Tiles, Strands, Mini… and Connections

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Sep 4

I contributed a little bug fix to Amiberry to enable me to read Amiga floppy disks on my Mac and now I’m going through my old magazine cover disk collection running software from 1990

An Apple MacBook on a cluttered desk. It is running an Amiga emulator in full screen - the familiar Amiga Workbench OS is visible.

Andrew Graham@andrewgraham· Aug 30

At Cardiff City, where the pie of the month is “Classic” (presumably horse)