05/26/2025
I usually let the text sit longer, go back to it, edit more, before I set anything. But I guess itās appropriate that here I, mm, upchucked it all in a note over about two hours, let it devolve into incoherency, and didnāt mess around trying to over-work it the next day. Just let it be what it was & set.
Anzeigen Grotesk, Alternate Gothic, bulk in Tannhauser, which is one of my favorite faces for its own qualities but also for sentimental reasons, being one of my motherās favorites first. Iāve got well over enough for thisāprobably three full founts in the caseāalthough not quite enough Didot spacing, not in the whole shop :/ and no larger sizes of the face, so itās tough to implement in most commissioned projects.
Anyway! This is sort of a coming out for me in an extremely anticlimactic way. Iāve been answering when asked and introducing myself to new people as such for a while but frankly I didnāt meet new people that often until recently, and mostly didnāt mention it to people who knew me already. Just been percolating on it. Didnāt feel pressed before to change my way of being around anyone or make any prints about it. Then it did press, sort of suddenly & strangely. Lots of reasons for that I could speculate on but shanāt.
Always grateful to anybody who bothers to read all the dang words I put on one of these, itās a lot, and Iāve seen several responses to it now, all very gratifying or sweet or funny or kind in their own way. As usual I worried that this meant nothing outside my own head, but certainly itās proven to be one of those things where, in being specific to myself as possible, itās come back around to being something other people can see in themselves.
