CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ellane

I tend to see that example closer to italic than cursive

italic is the older (and more elegant) style based off actual handwriting

cursive is the more modern style, harder to read because of less connection to actual letter shapes, and based off etchings ("copperplate") not writing

Gunnlaugur SE Briem - What exactly is italic?

A modern handwriting style—with heritage Italic is a contemporary version of a style of writing that was popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and is particularly suited to modern writing instruments. The capitals are based on shapes and proportions of classical Roman

(www.briem.net)

@rl_dane

@alice

> “You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, *Dispatches* (1977) (writing for *Esquire* during Vietnam War)

@foone @chrisjrn

the most famous single-handed layout: Maltron

@cstross

why aim for a normal Kessler syndrome when you can have a radioactive Kessler syndrome?