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Ministry of Type

Personal blog · ministryoftype.co.uk/wordsdesignwriting

Ministry of Type is a personal blog at ministryoftype.co.uk about design and writing. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Guilloches (2008)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Ministry of Type is a typography and design blog. On HN it appears only as one of several design blogs listed in a 'favorite design blogs' thread, with no comment on the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The Ministry of Type is a site about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer, illustrator and front-end developer with over 20 years experience in web, print and identity and am based on the south coast of England. I love hand-tracing and re

Most-linked posts?

  1. Guilloches (2008)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Some of the design blogs or websites I follow: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/ http://blog.frankchimero.com/ http://typographica.org/ http://ilovetypography.com/ http://ministryoftype.co.uk/ http://www.typography.com/ask/?path=foot http://fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com/ http://www.jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet/ http://lydianichols.blogspot.com/ http://www.swiss-miss.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Favorite Design Blogs?”
  2. Submitted Guilloches (2008) as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On Turning The Page as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Guardian iPad App as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Guilloches as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Review: Sketching With the Wacom Inkling as a story · 1 points

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