Puma Roma 68
I laid my eyes on these beautiful, azure Puma from PumaArchive. These would be perfect replacement for my gold Italian Cult that I can’t find anywhere anymore.
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Font Solver!
I kept forgetting to post this WhatTheFont tool, but here it is: no more “Does anyone know what font this is?”
Square Root Day!
Today is Square Root Day, when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. So March 3, 2009 = 3/3/09, or √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.
I always love numbers; love telling people how my birth date is actually easier to remember when you take the last 2 digits of the year I was born, divided by 3 to get the date and then divided the result by 4 to get the month. I thought it was amusing, while the person I told it to just looked at me funny.
More fun mathematically-related day to come: Pi Day is observed each March 14 (3.14), while Pi Approximation Day falls on July 22 (roughly equal to 22/7). The first Pi Day was observed in 1988 by staff at the San Francisco Exploratorium, who walked around in circles.
Berlin Museum of Letters
The Buchstabenmuseum (German for Museum of Letters) has been rescuing typographic icons of our time since 2005. Enjoy a visit yourself (by appointment only) or enjoy a sneak preview right now from Core77.
Quick thought: I see an umlaut!
Oh Buoy!
Vintage matchbooks, gold cooking spray, vintage nude playing cards? The Black Buoy sells some funky stuff — some may look moldy, like it’s been sitting in my 80-year-old neighbor’s back porch for the past decade. Hey, as long as it doesn’t give me cooties, I’m on board!