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via zarq

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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[tdanaher.livejournal.com]

I still have one of those burnishing tools, sort of a pen shape with a little metal ball on one end and a flat bit on the other depending on whether you needed to burnish tiny type or the larger design elements like zarq mentions.

I'm laughing at how I've been around long enough to remember when a fair chunk of those disappearing things hadn't even been invented yet. Newbies and their electric typewriters, sheesh. :)

(Tangent: knowing about kerning, do you notice bad kerning in movie end credits? My moviegoing pals have a sport of looking for instances of people named things like CALLAWAY and seeing whether the titles designer cared.)