David JONES

Yorkshire He/Him/Lambda • Type designer by day • Making fonts by night • Fonts published as CubicType

Web: https://about.cubictype.com/
Awards: 3rd prize (greetings card class) Totley Show 2022
shop at itch.io: https://drj11.itch.io/
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6813593/

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2026-05-27 16:47:56 CEST

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_singer_! not signer. The first must shorter version of this post, led me down a right rabbit hole. To this, for example, a sculpture of signing the Declaration of Independence. https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/plaques-and-statues-in-the-park.htm haha

2026-05-27 16:42:32 CEST

Realised the other day that Varvara is just Barbara with a V/B substitution. Barbara[V/B]
#uxn

2026-04-28 20:25:47 CEST

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Nono, fifth! (More practically, you can borrow both on archive.org to check out the differences yourself)

2026-04-28 14:08:20 CEST

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i see (from browsing on archive.org) that for the 6th edition they tacked on a chapter for each of various "clones", including nvi. Any comment on those?

2026-04-28 12:22:53 CEST

I reviewed Linda Lamb’s classic "Learning the vi editor" 5th edition. Still very good:
https://drj11.github.io/2026-04-28/review-learning-the-vi.html
#Unix #vi

2025-10-01 15:05:40 CEST

Official release day for my font Typewriter B! If you lend a type designer a typewriter, they turn it into a font. This font is a Pica font, with just a little bit quirkyness. The repertoire is limited to what came on the typewriter, plus the Fediverse Symbol ⁂.
It's monospaced, and available in two pitches: original 10.9 cpi and true pica 10 cpi. Except not quite, there's a sneaky half-width space character.
Please enjoy and please boost!
https://drj11.itch.io/font-typewriter-b
#TypewriterB #Font
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2025-09-10 14:12:46 CEST

Announcing Clive, a new font inspired by Clive Sinclair's ZX81.
https://drj11.itch.io/clive-font
(please boost)
#Font #ZX81 #semigraphics
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2025-09-09 13:21:08 CEST

Re-reading the ZX81 manual, spotted a reference to POP-2, a programming language i had somehow not heard of. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-2:
the function call
f(x, y, z);
can be written as
x, y, z; f();
(commas and semicolons being largely interchangeable) or even
x, y, z.f;
or
(x, y, z).f;
(Because of the stack-based paradigm)
@npub1e9y…vdd5 and @npub1z8r…mrq6 might want a quick look if they haven't come across it.

2025-06-12 12:04:20 CEST

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Fans of the @npub1tzj…dfrk and the wider fediverse should be pleased to note that my newly released Rainbow Rocket font (see up), not only supports the fediverse symbol, ⁂, but also has the colour palette Fedi based on the 5-node fedigram (which i think works better with darker backgrounds).
#FediverseSymbol #Font
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2025-06-12 10:04:34 CEST

Rainbow Rocket is here! A self-striping colour font family with 21 colour styles, some for free, some paid for. Shapes based on Arugula (an earlier font of mine that also means "rocket"); colours based on a variety of mostly found things.
Here i show examples from my Garden, gifted toys, and a font specimen i found at the Letterform Archive.
Share and Enjoy! (please boost)
https://drj11.itch.io/rainbow-rocket-font
#itchio #font #RainbowRocket #CubicType #ad
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2025-05-07 20:06:48 CEST

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are you writing a coroutine?

2025-05-06 16:14:31 CEST

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Yes, along with U+204E LOW ASTERISK and U+2051 TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY

2025-03-19 18:30:14 CET

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hehe, how does it work? Does it assign random palettes or something more tasteful/inspiring/clever?

2025-02-07 14:18:27 CET

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shouldn't this be a unix surrealism post?

2025-02-02 20:30:17 CET

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pretty sure you would enjoy Ptashne's "A genetic switch"; it's about self assembly and switching in Lambda Phage (a very minimal biological organism).

2025-01-03 11:02:14 CET

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it's not round on the inside (you can't really tell from the pictures), it's more conical. But your comment makes me wonder... as if it might receive a cylinder with a conical termination? Like, a piece of graphite or a charcoal stick? It doesn't look like it's designed to grind charcoal or similar, and it doesn't look like it ever has, but i might give it a go. (i think ink is usually ground on nearly flat ceramic dishes)

2025-01-01 11:57:58 CET

What's this? (Small pot flared truncated frustum container)
I genuinely don't know, so boosts welcome.
#AskFedi #Pottery
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2024-12-31 13:04:28 CET

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Wilding by Isabella Tree, about the Knepp rewilding project. The history and scope of the rewilding is fascinating and quite hopeful. But the lack of self-awareness of the author (who is very much aristocracy) is hilarious and provides a fair bit of unintended amusement. (their neighbour farms are cousins, holiday flats and Polo courts in the estate). One reference to frogs going brekekekex coax coax gave away that she did classics at Oxford (London actually, when i checked).

2024-12-31 10:29:23 CET

(following @npub1e5f…x7jr )
I have finished 52 books in 2024, toot me a number between 1 and 52 and I'll tell you something about that book.
[edit: 33 has gone, so don't pick that]
#bookstodon

2024-10-06 21:12:52 CEST

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reminds me more of Red.
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2024-09-02 11:41:05 CEST

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Did the ASR33 really use a slashed oval for the letter O and an unslashed oval for the number 0? Or has yours had its type band/basket/wheel taken apart and reassembled?
#ASR33