Skip to content

(non)material text

A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing

Category: Technology

Posted on 14 March 202215 March 2022

Pelikan fountain pens

I raved about the Goodnotes app in several posts, saying that it has largely replaced pens and notebooks for me. I still stand by its strengths: digital notebooks can be synced on all devices; its ability to search through handwriting recognition; its flexibility when it comes to sharing and exporting notes, etc. What I’m a …

Continue reading “Pelikan fountain pens”

Posted on 20 September 202020 September 2020

Olympia SM7 Deluxe

(Erratum: the typeface should be called Professional Elite No. 41)

Posted on 22 August 202022 August 2020

Using a typewriter to teach typography

Posted on 21 August 202022 April 2021

Articulating text hierarchy

(scroll down for article in digital text and images) Visually coding the structural hierarchy of a text (ie different levels of headings, etc) is the bread and butter of what we need to handle when writing and editing documents of all kinds, in word processing, page layout and digital publishing environments. Graphical resources are used …

Continue reading “Articulating text hierarchy”

Posted on 12 August 202013 August 2020

On keeping a journal (or something to that effect)

Something else I wrote five days ago along the same vein, but didn’t publish: First and final drafts written on the Adler Tippa 1 manual typewriter

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 4 Next page

About

(non)material text is run by Keith Tam, a typographer, information designer and academic based in Hong Kong

Recent Posts

  • Couldn’t sleep and wrote this
  • Fricatives by Eric Yip
  • On journaling
  • Pelikan fountain pens
  • Finally, an exhibition

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • January 2022
  • September 2021
  • May 2021
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020

Categories

  • Desktop publishing
  • Editing
  • Handwriting
  • Language
  • Material text
  • Non-material text
  • Publishing
  • Speech
  • Stationery
  • Technology
  • Typewriting
  • Uncategorized
  • Word processing
  • Writing