Kris Sowersby writes:

To curate means to care, not to make a list. We like to remember those who start things, but the real work of archives and institutions is the maintenance and continuation of them. Starting something is easy, caring for it over centuries is hard.

Read Kris’s in-depth essay on Martina Plantijn, his latest typeface release.

Vào ngày của cha, người ta chúc cho những người cha một ngày vui vẻ. Giờ đây vào ngày cha, con chỉ nghĩ đến ba. Xin cầu nguyện cho linh hồn của ba được yên nghỉ.

Max Berlinger writes for the New York Times about the return of aggressive skating. I prefer aggressive skating as an underdog sport at the skate parks so I just do my own things without being embarrassed.

Mới khám phá ra là I Love Typography có một bộ sưu tập phông chữ có dấu cho tiếng Việt. Đang ngắm nghía bộ Blacker Pro Text.

A rare, fantastic collaboration between two jazz giants: John Coltrane featuring Eric Dolphy played “Impressions.”

and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone.

Victoria Chang

I made 8 cents in 7 days with display ads. Adsense doesn’t make sense for this blog. I removed it without anything else to promote. Let’s keep it minimal for a bit. After all, this blog is nothing but personal; therefore, I want to get back to just write.

Taking the 50%-off deal, I licensed Kaius Text, designed by Lisa Fischbach. Of course Kaius Text supports Vietnamese. I did not advise Vietnamese diacritics for Kaius, but I had worked with Lisa on other typefaces for TypeMates. She nailed the diacritical marks. I added Kaius Text to the recommendation page at Vietnamese Typography.

TypeMate is running a special deal of 50% off on all of its font collection. It has a handful of fonts supporting Vietnamese. I had the pleasure of advising a few of them. I am eyeing on Kaius Text, designed by Lisa Fischbach. It supports Vietnamese as well, but I didn’t review the diacritics; therefore, I am not sure how they look. The deal ends tomorrow so I need to make a decision fast.

After a week waiting for approval from Google, I implemented Adsense on Thursday. The first day I made a penny even though my site is pulling 1.62k unique visitors a day and 15.83k total requests. I’ll see how Adsense will perform in a week before I decide if it is worth keeping.