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Things that are soon to be no more if they aren't gone already: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203187.html

I challenge you to guess which one makes me saddest.

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It's a good skill for a copy editor to have, though. I suspect many people who use programs like Illustrator, InDesign, Quark and Photoshop have no idea what kerning is.

I assume you've seen this: http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_term.html

Hehe. That sounds familiar! My mom has extremely heavy boxes of type in her garage and living room closet. She never looks at them.

My grandfather's thing was colored pencils. He used to ask my grandmother to describe what color they were, (he was color blind,) tag them with a handwritten piece of masking tape and then his sketch pads and a random collection of colored pencils would wind up all over the house.