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Fancy Footloose Free From Fakery * Fiddleink! * Friendships Forge Formidable Future Fair Freedoms * Fiddleink! * Faithfully Fumble Function * Fiddleink! * Forgo Frequent Flabbergast Flutter * Fiddleink! * Forgiveness Fades Fear *

Fancy Footloose Free From Fakery * Fiddleink! * Friendships Forge Formidable Future Fair Freedoms * Fiddleink! * Faithfully Fumble Function * Fiddleink! * Forgo Frequent Flabbergast Flutter * Fiddleink! * Forgiveness Fades Fear * Fancy Footloose Free From Fakery * Fiddleink! * Friendships Forge Formidable Future Fair Freedoms * Fiddleink! * Faithfully Fumble Function * Fiddleink! * Forgo Frequent Flabbergast Flutter * Fiddleink! * Forgiveness Fades Fear *

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IDK

May 22, 2020


A continuation of an exercise to explore the meaning of acronyms found in online and text communication. Jeff provided me with a list of them. This list lives on top of the Linotype keyboard. I've had to search for the meaning of some of the listed acronyms multiple times. Instead of committing their meaning to memory, I prefer to make up my own meanings, and then forget those. Anyway, this exercise also serves as the framework to take a deep dive into one single type face: 14pt Intertype Bodoni Book 961. I enjoy the constraints. One typeface, a limit of 4 hours (the normal duration of open hours at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry) and an acronym that I don't understand. "IDK" will be the 4th print in this acronym-type-specimen exercise.



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