{"id":71266,"date":"2023-03-10T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=71266"},"modified":"2025-02-02T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:44:12","slug":"welcome-to-bijou-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/welcome-to-bijou-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Bijou Type!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>At last,<\/strong> I have finally launched my tiny little type foundry, <a href=\"http:\/\/bijoutype.com\">Bijou Type<\/a>. To mark the occasion, My distributor\/employer Type Network wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/typenetwork.com\/articles\/dan-rhatigans-bijou-type\">nice little feature<\/a> about me and the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Dan Rhatigan joined TN in 2021, he teased a potential return to type design: \u201cIf I can manage my time well, there should finally be some more of my own work making its way into the world.\u201d That <em>finally<\/em>&nbsp;is here, in the form of Bijou Type. With the foundry\u2019s launch, Rhatigan shares how Letraset helps him focus on end users, why Bijou\u2019s fonts look so&nbsp;<em>Dan<\/em>, and the three meanings behind&nbsp;<em>Bijou<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/typenetwork.com\/articles\/dan-rhatigans-bijou-type\">Type Network<\/a><\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/typenetwork.com\/articles\/dan-rhatigans-bijou-type\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"71271\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Artboard-13-copy-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Artboard-13-copy-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Artboard-13-copy-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Artboard-13-copy-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Artboard-13-copy-3.png 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/typenetwork.com\/articles\/dan-rhatigans-bijou-type\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"71267\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bijou_logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bijou_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bijou_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bijou_logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Bijou_logo.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, I have finally launched my tiny little type foundry, Bijou Type. To mark the occasion, My distributor\/employer Type Network wrote a nice little feature about me and the work. When Dan Rhatigan joined TN in 2021, he teased a potential return to type design: \u201cIf I can manage my time well, there should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/welcome-to-bijou-type\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Bijou Type!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrascrapbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71266","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=71266"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77635,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71266\/revisions\/77635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}