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The day I discovered type design

73 pointsby ingveyesterday at 11:08 PM8 commentsview on HN

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furyofantarestoday at 12:19 AM

> Lettering design I did for my high school yearbook in 1974.

Anyone else get an optical illusion effect from this? Looks like it's continually zooming out to me.

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mosessupposedtoday at 6:17 AM

Ah, that's the guy who designed my favorite typeface. I once ran a weekly newspaper that was about 70% Etna. It's a fabulous family, lots of character (and characters - heh) while still crazy versatile.

sebastianmestretoday at 1:14 AM

TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed

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