Good type against all odds

Marcin's attention to details, showcasing works that demonstrate the craftsmanship in what is typically considered mundane, is really amazing!

I’m a simple man. I see a post from Marcin about typography or keyboards and I upvote. He has such a passion for this and I’ve always loved his storytelling.

So pleasant to see elegance in such seemingly mundane places. Someone cared and took a little extra time. Bravo to them!

What a lovely example to end on.

Personally, I (guiltily) love using ol'fashioned contractions. I wish it were more normalised.

Lovely photographs as well, great composition and the bold editing.

Woah, I've never seen a 24x2 HD44780 before! Only 16x2 and 20x4.

I thought maybe to account for the origin of italics, it could be that it's easier to slant in that direction while writing left-to-right than the other way.

However, when people write Yiddish (which has a right-to-left script) they slant the same way[^1], whereas you'd expect the opposite if it were easier, so maybe it is just arbitrary.

[^1]: An example of Yiddish handwriting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_orthography#/media/Fil...

I went to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronovisor_(film) recently. If ever there were a film for typography nerds!

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