Digital Magpie #16

This is Digital Magpie #16

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Birds 🐦

I am absolutely loving this series from Elena of The Marginalian - An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days. She shares the cards often on insta, I just love the wisdom and the link to birds, beautiful. What a gift this collection would be to give!

Do you have a favourite font? ✒️

As someone who is a fan of typefaces I enjoyed this long read so much ‘What’s Your Type? A Reading List on Typefaces with Wild Tales to Tell: Seven stories exploring our love affair with type.’ 

“Once upon a time, there was a software program called Microsoft Bob. In it was a yellow cartoon dog called Rover who spoke in comic-book speech bubbles. That’s how Comic Sans was born, says its creator Vincent Connare, because “dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!””

This naughty local 🐘

True colours 🎨

Multispectral camera and radiative transfer equation used to depict Leonardo’s sfumato in Mona Lisa - fascinating.

One of the best 🐝

🥁 Why doesn’t the sun go to university? It already has millions of degrees.

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