issue: 31 summary: >- Typography that survives being read, a lesson from the people who make paper, and a very small piece of software that does one thing. pubDate: 2026-08-03 tags: - weekly links: - title: Practical Typography url: https://practicaltypography.com/ kind: read note: >- Butterick is prescriptive in a way that makes people cross, which is why it works. If you only read one page, make it the one on line length. - title: The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web url: https://webtypography.net/ kind: read via: a comment on the above note: Bringhurst's rules, restated for a medium that cannot control its own page size. - title: How paper is actually made url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papermaking kind: watched note: >- Sent down this hole by a conversation about why some notebooks feather and others do not. It is about fibre length, mostly. - title: Music for Airports, 2/1 url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports kind: listened note: Back on this again. Wrote it up properly over on fav.

A week mostly about surfaces: type on screens, ink on paper, sound in rooms you are not paying attention to. None of it planned; it just went that way.