Fontographer

To people who are not digital natives, there are a lot of neologisms to come to terms with.

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What is it you do?

I’m a blogger.

What exactly does a, a …

…blogger…

…do?

I blog. Special kind of blog though. Mostly about fonts. So you could say I’m also a fontographer.

And fonts are…?

Typefaces. Letters. On a computer screen. I also do graphics. It all comes together in videographs.

That’s a lot of graph-work. Are you a graphiti artist?

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Affirming existence

Greta asks Uma why she blogs.

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Uma: Why write a diary? Why write a journal? Why write anything? Can’t you guess?

Greta: I think you want a witness to your life.

Uma: There is that. It’s a way of affirming my existence. Through a sort of art. It’s like having friends. A life full of artistic friends.

Greta: But there is something else. Isn’t there.

Uma: Writing is a way of keeping my mind alive. When I don’t write, I can sense my communication powers diminishing, my curiosity shriveling up. People may not need to read my blog, but I need to write it.

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