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Researchers Develop Memory Aiding Typeface

Researchers Develop Memory Aiding Typeface

In the Seybold Report newsletter, we love reporting on typefaces, especially history of type design and new typefaces. I laughed out loud when I learned about this new one (see below), and, of course, we had to share the news with the Seybold Report subscribers in the last issue (18.19) of the newsletter, which published earlier this month. “Researchers Doctor Janneke Blijlevens and Doctor Jo Peryman from RMIT’s Behavioral Business Lab (Melbourne, Australia) collaborated with the School of Design to…

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The Invaluable Role of Enthusiasm in Book Publishing

The Invaluable Role of Enthusiasm in Book Publishing

The act of publishing is essentially the act of making public one’s own enthusiasm. Robert Gottlieb In terms of the timing for this blog post what caught my attention first was a press release. I get press releases about new books all the time, but this one got my attention because it spoke to me of enthusiasm, genuine enthusiasm. Frankly, I am not a boxing fan, but I am a fan of books and this line rang all the right…

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Prayer for Our Enemies

Prayer for Our Enemies

I am reading, and very much enjoying, a non-fiction book called American Gospel, written by Jon Meacham. It is, as its title implies, a book about America’s attempts to keep Church and State separate. I thought I would share some points from the book in a few posts. Here, for example, is a prayer a minister recited at the 1944 church service to commemorate FDR’s first inauguration. Apparently FDR liked the prayer a great deal and was very happy to…

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Your Kids on Books

Your Kids on Books

The best advice any teacher ever gave me outside of recommending I accept Bryn Mawr College’s very generous scholarship offer was something another teacher told me when I was about 10 years old. She told me to read–read anything I could get my hands on and just keep reading. And, here I am, all this (ahem) decades later, and I still read just about anything I can get my hands on…thank goodness for public libraries. And, speaking of which, here’s…

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