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I’ve never fully managed to crack the early music of Pink Floyd to the same extent as their later music, but I’m intrigued to see if Have You Got It Yet?, the forthcoming film about original bandleader Syd Barrett helps unlock that for me.

• The backstory of LoveFrom's bespoke signature typeface LoveFrom Serif which takes its roots from the work of John Baskerville and brought to life by former Apple type team alumni Antonio Cavedoni and Riccardo Lorusso.
• There’s a part of me that thinks this AI vector recoloring tool from Adobe will be useful, but the other part of me wants to know how anything uploaded is going to potentially be used to train this or future AI tools.
• “…creating may be easy, but creating successfully is beyond hard. It is outside the creator’s control.” Timing proves to really be everything.
• The crazy process of building a massive luxury cruise ship. This particular vessel can hold 6000 passengers and stretches 337 meters long.
• File under science that kind of breaks my brain more than just a little bit. The the mystery of the Great Attractor and the immeasurable distance to get there.
• Company builds facility that lifts and lowers 24-tonne bricks to store energy. “Each brick being lowered at six feet a second can generate an entire megawatt, the company says, for an overall efficiency of at least 80 percent.”
• The continual repurposing of Moore's Law among Silicon Valley tech elites should be considered a warning or at least some measure of their own self-perpetuating reality distortion field. Mostly it’s just bullshit.
• “…the internet has been primed for exactly the kind of fight Rini warns against — an endless war of meta skepticism.” A strong warning for the future among the current AI arms race that might not destroy us, but instead help us destroy ourselves.
• I definitely fall into the category of people who friendships often take a little while to develop. This is totally okay with me.
• Lyft and Dropbox, late entries into the tech layoff game.
• Black Mirror is back in June. Buckle up.

Notable Type Releases

• Octagon Variable offers a fun, quirky (and open-sourced) faceted typeface from HAW/Finkenau in Hamburg. A release from their first year type design class under the tutelage of Prof. Pierre Pané-Farré and Simon Thiefes.
• Full of panache and steeped in traditional Italian history, Sudtipos’ new Grappa captures the aromatic essence of wine in a very packaging-friendly design featuring a wide range of alternates and distinctive form.
• Maxitype’s Signs crosses the between minimal and maximal with a heavy duty one-two punch of regular and rounded styles. Looks great packed tightly too.
• Womprat is the typeface you’re looking for. I’m very pleased to see there’s a Aurebesh companion which otherwise would have been a notable miss.
• Pasta Font, an “experimental explorations in how pasta shapes can translate into text.” What else is there to say?