LettError Type

Action Grotesque is a variable-first, reading-first sans serif that continues Erik van Blokland’s exploration of type created in and for the environments where it is most likely to find itself today: screens. Read more: commercialtype.com/catalog/acti...

A compact re-release of my ErikRightHand at LettError. No additional weights, no original punches pulled. I spared you a think-piece on early digital ephemera and their transformative influence on typographic culture. Great at channeling anger. #font #anger letterror.com/erikrighthand/

NEW RELEASE! Spectator by Paul Barnes, a restoration and reimagination of Alexander Wilson’s legendary but elusive English No. 1. commercialtype.com/catalog/spec...

Wikipedia – still among the internet angels donate.wikimedia.org

Go on, make a sign. Tell them where you're at. Don’t use the bollocks system fonts from the machine that is spying on you. Your words are none of their business. As real as it gets, this Kosmik. letterror.com/kosmik/

Fuck AI. In other news, the glyphset for LTR Kosmik has been extended to almost 3000 glyphs total. Apparently a great typeface for campsites, petting zoos, farmer’s markets, oatsy diary and all the delicious organic foods. LTR Kosmik is also an excellent alternative for bloody Papyrus in any design.

Many reasons to like this. House’ Eames Stencil only one of them.

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On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ai

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

Place’s place Full gallery on commercialtype.com/news Photography by Marjorie Ray @commercialtype.bsky.social

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

Fontstand Cooperative now exists. 🚀 After two years of work, it’s officially incorporated in the Netherlands. We’ve opened applications for independent type foundries. Read more, and consider joining us. fontstand.com/news/design-...

So much anger.

Speculative profits on reselling centuries old knowledge¹: check this early German edition of Das Kapital for an insanely competitive price². You need to get on board with this *now*. Real offer. One copy³. letterror.com/bookshop/ 1. From books. 2. €3999 + VAT and shipping. 3. In my collection ✨

An optical size for big? Pixels without hinting? Ligatures that are not really ligatures? Nothing is ever what it seems in type (but everything does its job and you didn’t even notice!) Action Grotesque: platform independent, private equity free. At Commercial Type commercialtype.com/catalog/acti...

We love this use of @letterror.bsky.social's Action Grotesque, on the updated website for the TypeMedia program at the KABK in the Hague: typemedia.org It's particularly great for dense, complicated pages like this: typemedia.org/noordzij/bib...

Airport Catering Truck One

Leave graphic design to the designers, I know, so this is as far as I will go. Complex typography in small and big, Action Grotesque is readable at ever size.

Book tickets for #TypeTuesday, 8 Sept 2026 bit.ly/MyFavouriteM... #editorialdesign #graphicdesign #typography

Bring your laptop to the beach for some light reading: NEWSLTR¹ №23: Typographic Summer. Sign up for NEWSLTR if you haven’t! buttondown.com/letterror/ar... 1. Newsletter: like social media, but you sign up yourself, there are no billionaires and no one gets angry.

Fast work 💪 by this year's graduates: the typeMedia 2026 gallery website is up. All the projects, process, sketches and gorgeous typefaces✨ The graduation exhibition is open until Tuesday 🎉 #typefaces #fonts #kabk #typedesign #typemedia #newwork #gradshow 2026.typemedia.org

Let us not forget the Euler Phonograph. Never successful, despite its extended play. #vinyl #audiophile #math #drawing #fuckai

Serendipitous discovery of all fonts, articles, drawings & photos by LettError in one single, scrollable and randomised gallery. It is Friday afternoon, what else are you going to do. letterror.com/scroller/

Hey scrollers! A thumb and distraction friendly introduction to LettError fonts TL;DR letterror.com/scrollerFonts/ #fonts #typography #newfont #letterror

NEW RELEASE! Action Grotesque, designed by from Erik van Blokland @letterror.bsky.social is a variable-first, reading-first sans serif designed first and foremost for use on screen. commercialtype.com/catalog/acti...

Erik van Blokland (and friends), giving me a micro-tour of Berlin, points to the former residence of Trixie… yes, THAT Trixie.

Someday... (Repost with monster alt text)

Math

Read this from @rusty.todayintabs.com, it’s short and sharp: www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...

There’s still time to sign up for my online Python for Visual Designers workshop for Type@Cooper @coopertype, Thursdays 6.30–9.30pm US Eastern from 26 March–14 May (8 weeks). coopertype.org/events/pytho...

Every time Monotype acquires another foundry, the homogenization of type accelerates. The antidote isn't nostalgia—it's supporting indies who still treat type as craft, not content.

LTR Limited Grotesque®: Probably never at Monotype, but available at letterror.com/limited/ and FontStand. Variable weight humanist sans. More flavor, less baggage. #fonts #typography #lettering #sans

NEW: LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type is a beautifully drawn, semi-informal, low-contrast, illustrative humanist sans serif family with steeply angled italics, in two variable styles, with unexpected extra tails, curves, and characteristic details to stand out. fontstand.com/fonts/ltr-li...

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"I understand that it’s not a great look to have exchanged tens of thousands of text messages with The Cannibal King over many years. Still, cut me some slack. We've all had a questionable acquaintance or two in our lives." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...

"While it may have looked like a shooting, it was actually a 'rapid de-escalation outcome.' We recognize that phrases like that may sound invented, which is why we ask you to repeat them anyway."

Our brand new Eyeball ep is here! Please share with everyone you know! open.spotify.com/album/4lOS8c...

E + H, the bony lads, practice some dentistry. #ensorHolbein The drawing will continue until morale improves. #dentistry #cartoon

In a moment of zen, Ensor has dinner with the fish. Where is his friend Holbein? Out dancing probably. It can be read as a gruesome scene, but then again it is rendered in such fetching shading! Artistique! The drawing will continue until morale improves. #ensorHolbein

Remembering James Mosley hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...

Ensor and Holbein shake their bones. #ensorAndHolbein #dancingSkeletons #drawing #cartoon

We’ve all been there.

So how's the algorithm here? You're all angry already?