{"id":1585,"date":"2006-11-01T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/wrap_me_read_me\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:37:44","slug":"wrap_me_read_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/wrap_me_read_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap Me, Read Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that Dave<\/a> from Helveti.ca<\/a><\/strong> is finishing up his first book design project over here, so I am shamelessly scooping, and shamelessly stealing these pictures of awesome typofabrics from India, Ink.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\"Helvetica<\/a><\/td>\n\"Condensed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Even though I can barely sew on a button I\u2019ve been fantasizing what I could do if I bought up every stitch of it that this eBay seller<\/a> could get her hands on, especially once I discovered that she has other kinds as well:<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Serif<\/a><\/td>\n\"Newspaper<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Friends, students, admirers, and mockers already know of my vast collection of type-themed t-shirts, but now I\u2019m imagining myself wearing a full suit made out of type cloth. Perhaps all Helvetica, with a nice shirt made out of the serify stuff, and a tie and pocket square made from the numbers? Or at least some sheets and pillowcases. What with the tattoos, the t-shirts, and flights of fancy like this, I realize that I\u2019m on the verge of becoming a Batman villain<\/a>, albeit one with much more style than this loser<\/a>. Still, if anyone can make this happen I will be your slave for life.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019d much rather have a Cooper Black<\/a> leather jacket. (Thank you folks, I’ll be here all week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that Dave from Helveti.ca is finishing up his first book design project over here, so I am shamelessly scooping, and shamelessly stealing these pictures of awesome typofabrics from India, Ink. Even though I can barely sew on a button I\u2019ve been fantasizing what I could do if I bought up every stitch of … Continue reading “Wrap Me, Read Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70941,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/70941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}