Johannes López Ayala

@typographer.bsky.social

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Design, writing, art, philosophy, jazz, fonts. Lots of fonts. ⦿ Didn’t think I’d turn my profile into a moodboard, but here we go ⦿ Mastodon: https://typo.social/@jla

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A few calm garden scenes with grasses, perennials, and flowers. Some of the flowers have started wilting, which makes the whole staging even more naturalistic and beautiful.
A Dypsis lutescens in a shop window on a sunny day, photo taken from inside.
Toner fill status of an HP laser printer. The display says “Ready”. Below, Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta are all displayed at 100 %. Black is at 60 % or so but don’t worry, I got two spare cartridges in stock from a good deal some time ago.
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An apartment entry with 4 coat hooks permanently attached to the door, but the spacing between all 4 hooks is extremely uneven
Nick Shinn interviewing Nick Shinn in front of a well-stocked bookshelf. Image from https://ilovetypography.com/2026/05/13/font-faces-nick-shinn/
Circa 1920s postcard of the Hollywood Reservoir, showing the exposed concrete face of the Mulholland Dam, courtesy of the California State Library.​
A type specimen page for Botter.
Erik Henningsen (1855–1930): “Parade of the Infantry or Changing of the Guard” (1888). Oil on canvas, 90 x 148.5 cm (35.4 x 58.4 in). National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vagtparade_(Henningsen).jpg
NEW YORK HYBRID New York-based type foundry Sharp are looking for a graphic designer to join their team and deliver work for brands such as YouTube, Twilio and Dropbox. Must be proficient in most versions of Loodle Max, with at least a basic understanding of the Omega Vv.1.2.29 early release Loodle Lite plug in software release. A keen sense of Poob workflow and Gumpy implementation. The ability to adapt to Pheebo-style collaborative spaces. 3+ years of site building experience in Wondee. Efficient prototyping in Glorp Pro.
1913 print ad for Michelin. A giant, cigar-smoking Michelin Man sitting on a building and idly towering over a street scene in London
Magazine cover of “Robot”, April 1977.
American Knickerbockers; c. 1925, from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Wesley Wallace Tillotson, 1956 From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knickerbockers_MET_56.55.10_CP4.jpg
At the bottom of the picture, a rendering of something that can only be described as a horizontal slice of an ugly silver toy race car with an oversized, gaudy magic crystal at the position of the driver (or codriver, depending on your country). The rest of the slice’o’toycar is crammed with yellow/orange, avocado green, and off-white mechanical keyboard keys in an incomprehensible pattern. The top of the picture begs: “UP TO 55% OFF — It’s starting — BACK US NOW”
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
Bandsintown lockup. Icon: light cyan “Heavy Metal Horns” gesture that also doubles as a “b” with a stylized audio bar visualizer above it, composed entirely of rectangular shapes. Logotype below: “bandsintown”, typeset in a a generic geometric sans.
Lotte Jacobse's slide on what you can do as an individual designer (from her KRUPA design conference keynote): 1. Start from an open and new perspective 2. Know your lens, and your blind spots 3. Center the impact on people 4. Vision with hope, design with realism
A 1993 screenshot of a font menu in three colums displaying 21 knockoff typefaces with hilarious names trying to stick close to the original trademark names, e. g., "Palamino" for "Palatino", or "Minstrel" for "Mistral".
Arm Wrestling Meme: ‘Hip-Hoppers’ and ‘Metalheads’ meeting at ‘Illegible Lettering’—no one can decipher those black metal band logos nor those graffiti tags, after all.
A specimen of the OHno Type Co. typeface Swear Smoke showing the words "SHORT WORDS". It's an elaborate connected design that is intentionally hard to read with very high contrast, a noticeable backslant, and some bizarre forms.
A screenshot from a clip of Francis Ford Coppola presenting his Godfather Notebook, a massive, completely handmade tome collecting all (and I mean all) his thoughts and notes about the production of the movie. He used this instead of the much less detailed screenplay to direct the movie.
"Gestaltung" set several times in Offenbach with different stylistic alternates used per line.
Scrolling through I Love Typography’s typography inspiration board
A 1998 businesswoman holding a PowerMac 7100 at gunpoint with a heavy automatic rifle or something in a generic 1990s US-American small business interior. Caption: “How your email finds me”
Count Alexander Kuschelew-Besborodko, portrait painted by Franz Krüger in 1850
“Nathaniel Olds”, portrait painted by Jeptha Homer Wade in 1837
A statue of Bernd das Brot, the beloved children’s TV show character from Germany
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present, 2010 Performance 3 months. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2010 © Marina Abramović / Bildupphovsrätt 2016
A Ray and Charles Eames-designed leg splint made of plywood from the V&A museum collection
Ringi typeface specimen: 100 Units (Almost) Everywhere
“Tout le monde connait Roger Excoffon”, exhibition poster typeset in calypso and Antique Olive Nord, designed in 2011 by Extrafine.
A knockoff of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși's ‘Bird in Space' sculptures as seen in ‘Padme’s quarters on Coruscant’, a set design from the film ‘Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones’ from 2002. Sculpture/prop circled red so it’s clearly identifiable against the busy backdrop.
Proposed Mother & Child magazine logo, 1966, by Tom Carnase/Herb Lubalin/Alan Peckolick, designers
(iMessage chat) Them: What’s the Christmas song that be like “the lease knobby dot” Them: it’s Spanish Me: Are you serious?
A playful and detailed b/w specimen graphic for “Polymath” from OHno Type Co., an alternative-laden “geometric sans ready to shakeup the entire industry”
“Kaltwasser” lettering on an old dockland building
A gunmetal electricity tower against blue, cloudy sky at dusk. Its top part is painted red and white.
Mark Simonson’s “1979” design in a style similar to lettering he was doing back around 1979. He did it only using tools that were available to him in 1979, visible in the picture, too: pencils (for the sketch and the under-drawing), erasers, illustration board, masking tape to hold the board down, circle template, dividers, ruler, triangles, Ulano Glide-Liner (like a T-square, but attached to the table), Higgins Black Magic ink, a Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph, a fine sable brush, and a bit of white water color paint to fix some mistakes.
A comic book-style speech bubble: “I’m feeling emphatic about this!” (in all caps) The animated GIF shows how the word “emphatic” can be enlarged from the center in Adobe programs via a VF “Emphasis” axis … or at least it would, if animated GIFs were supported in Bluesky. Since they aren’t (as of now), just follow the link to find the animated version.
Detail of a commemorative stone cross with religious inscriptions dated 1691 on a small pilgrimage trail
Photo of a commemorative stone cross with religious inscriptions dated 1691 on a small pilgrimage trail. Canine assistant researcher Dante snooping into the picture from the right.
A Firefox update notice that presents the native PDF editing feature.
The question “How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?”, rendered in two different fonts: Brush Script and Arial.
An example calculation of the royalties that a foundry participating in Monotype’s subscription program gets per quarter.
A screenshot from a font EULA: “ If the Author sees the fonts used in damaging material, such as political propaganda, or homotransphobic, or racist, or ableist, or misoginist, or colonialist, or fascist material the Licensee and Third Parties will immediately be contacted by the Author and their lawyers in order to suspend and revoke the License. All the products and designs made with the fonts will have to be destroyed and the Agreement will terminate. The Author may also publicly show, call out, and condemn on their media channels the offensive and damaging material in which the fonts had been used.”
Fontra.xyz demo being presented by @justvanrossum, @jeremiehornus, and Gaëtan Baehr on Google Meets
Six book covers from the made-up art history book series “My Type of Art” showcasing different fonts from the Identity Letters superfamily, “Allrounder”, by means of rendering a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog in the style of the corresponding art epochs, each cover shown multiple times, arranged in a grid.
Six posters from the made-up art history book series “My Type of Art” showcasing different fonts from the Identity Letters superfamily, “Allrounder”, by means of rendering a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog in the style of the corresponding art epochs.
A portion of a page from William H. Clarke’s “People’s Horse, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine Doctor”, 1896