litherland
@lither
Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.📍NYC
What I do for my dogs on the Fourth of July: Gabapentin CBD oil Noise-canceling headphones White-noise machine Windows closed / AC on Fans on high 🧨
Google makes it as difficult as possible to toggle off these settings. Most people won’t do it. Do it.
The name of the typeface’s original designer, Tobias Frere-Jones, does not appear once here. That (to put it mildly) is bonkers. www.creativeboom.com/resources/th...
Not sure if it’s the best, but here’s a recent one, straight out of camera (er, phone)
The timeline feels exceptionally heavy these days, friends. At least it feels that way to me. For a bit of lightness, enjoy this picture of my dog Happy.
My dog Happy, who has to wear a cone until her corneal injury heals, just used the cone to scoop a breakfast taco up off the street, and then used the cone as a sort of plate from which to eat the taco 🤨
I rarely post images of text, especially when they come from Vichy Twitter, but this one feels *deeply* personal for me. This is a word.
I’m crankier than usual because I was surprised by 5K in vet bills this week 😓
Yes, I linked to the brilliant Lit Hub piece skewering the NYT and then immediately shared this NYT piece on Cuomo. My dislike of Cuomo eclipses even my dislike of the NYT.
Costco now has Novavax shots. There’s a location on East 117th Street—I am *there* as soon as I can make an appointment!
Obviously I’m talking about everyday informal handwriting here, *not* calligraphy, which sadly I have never had the requisite patience to learn.
Pump up the x-height: @greggazdowicz.bsky.social’s Focal Maxi came out this summer and is already in use in the real world commercialtype.com/catalog/foca...
No wonder my dog Tulip is so out of sorts. He can sense storms across immense swaths of time and space.