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#typography

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Dobody 🇺🇦🍉

I'm definitely not the first to look for this, has one of us ever come up with any (even bad) solution for breaking up a <p> element into lines? I know I can spend some time making my own "parser" but if anyone in the #webtoprint community has already done such a thing i'd be happy to take a look.

#web2print#typography
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David Shields
Happy Birthday Horatio Nelson Bill—born in Lebanon, Connecticut, on this day March 25, 1824.
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Horatio worked as a sign painter before he (and brother Jeremiah) cut wood type for Edwin Allen in Windham, Connecticut. The brothers formed their own wood type company, H & J Bill, in 1850 based in Lebanon. They moved the company six miles north to Willimantic in 1851. The company was known as Bill, Stark & Co 1853–1854. In late 1854 the company was shuttered and subsequently sold to William H. Page in 1856. Horatio was listed as Type Maker on his 1863 draft registration and listed variously as a sign painter, house painter, and fine arts painter in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Image is of Tuscan Open as shown in the 1853 _Specimens of Machinery Cut Wood Type, Manufactured by Bill, Stark & Company, Willimantic, Connecticut._ (held in the ATF Library Collection at Columbia University, Rare Books & Manuscripts.
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#WoodType #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #letterforms #typography #letterpress #type #design #GraphicDesign #NineteenthCentury #OnThisDay #birthday #bibliography #archives #libraries #collections
Ornate letter “F”, black ink on cream paper.
Ornate letter “I”, and “R”, black ink on cream paper.
Ornate letter “E” and exclamation point, black ink on cream paper.
Full page of type specimen catalog spelling ouy “Hartford” “LUSTER” and “FIRE!” in ornate type forms. Specimen Catalog held in the ATF Library Collection at Columbia University, Rare Books &amp; Manuscripts.
#collections
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Giacomo Tesio
@luca@sironi.tk

well, "supercazzole" is fun but a bit derogatory.

Lorem ipsum are texts with no intended meaning, whose sole use is to fill space to test or showcase a certain layout in #typography.

It's text that nobody would care to read, as it has no meaning or message.

Exactly like #LLM output.

So it's strictly false to say that generative #AI is useless: it has one and exactly one proper use case: generating #LoremIpsum (or their graphical equivalent).

@stefano@bsd.cafe
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