{"id":14614,"date":"2021-04-20T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14614"},"modified":"2021-04-21T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:59:33","slug":"typesetting-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/typesetting-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Typesetting Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having a train-obsessed 11yo son who enjoys exclaiming things like, &#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s Cooper Black!,&#8221; this tour of railroad typography is &#x1f4af; up our family&#8217;s alley. (Tangential, but as it&#8217;s already on my clipboard: we&#8217;re keeping a running album of our <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/FDvsas2F55sTVHGz9\">train-related explorations along Route 66<\/a>, and Henry&#8217;s been adding things like an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/W8JYFB7o37k\">atomic train tour<\/a> to his YouTube channel.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Typesetting Trains | Laurence Penney | ATypI 2020 All Over\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IeaPuNM6Nc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the typesetting video description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Ever since the first train services, a wide variety of guides have helped passengers understand the railways; supplementing the text with timetables, maps, views, and diagrams. Typographically speaking, the linear nature of railways and the modular nature of trains meant that successful diagrams could be designed economically by using typographic sorts. Various typographic trains and railways from the 1830s to present-day will be evaluated in terms of data visualization, decoration, and the economics of reproduction. Bringing things up to date, techniques for typesetting emoji and CSS trains are explored, and a railway-inspired layout model will be proposed for wider application in the typography of data visualization and ornamentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>[Via Terri Stone]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a train-obsessed 11yo son who enjoys exclaiming things like, &#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s Cooper Black!,&#8221; this tour of railroad typography is &#x1f4af; up our family&#8217;s alley. (Tangential, but as it&#8217;s already on my clipboard: we&#8217;re keeping a running album of our train-related explorations along Route 66, and Henry&#8217;s been adding things like an atomic train tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14635,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions\/14635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}