{"id":77634,"date":"2025-02-02T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=77634"},"modified":"2025-02-02T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:58:23","slug":"brief-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/brief-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Since the inspirations<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/bijoutype.com\">Bijou<\/a> typefaces (so far) come from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/02\/hot-slutty-pink-bijou-type\/\">research<\/a> I have been doing into the history of <a href=\"http:\/\/hottype.club\">gay magazine<\/a> publishing, I get particularly excited when my typefaces are used for projects with a bit of queerness to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-1024x307.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-1024x307.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-300x90.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-768x230.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-1536x461.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-2048x614.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3205-1200x360.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So happily, the first use of <a href=\"https:\/\/bijoutype.com\/typefaces\/buckram\">Buckram<\/a> by anyone besides me was for <a href=\"https:\/\/carnationcontemporary.com\/Brief-Encounters-Queer-Instant-Photography\">Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography<\/a>, a small photography exhibit at a gallery here in Portland. When one of the artists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelespinozaart.com\">Michael Espinoza<\/a>, reached out to me about using Buckram for gallery labels and some related text pieces, I was more than to help out. Perfect conceptual alignment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s always useful to see someone else use one of my typefaces for the first time, since I get a better sense of how well it really works after being so close to it for the long stretches of time it takes to finish a typeface. It\u2019s a huge relief to see someone use it well, and confirm that the design has real potential!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the inspirations for Bijou typefaces (so far) come from the research I have been doing into the history of gay magazine publishing, I get particularly excited when my typefaces are used for projects with a bit of queerness to them. So happily, the first use of Buckram by anyone besides me was for Brief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/brief-encounters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brief Encounters&#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":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77634","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=77634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77637,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77634\/revisions\/77637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}