Erler Dingbats
“The world’s first complete Unicode dingbats font”
For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font.
To help support and encourage the use of the Unicode standard, publisher FSI FontShop International is giving away the Erler Dingbats completely free of charge.
About time we ditched Zapf Dingbats. Great looking glyphs with a consistent style. And free too.
Ferns - On Botany
This little indie pop masterpiece is a free download for a limited time. Ferns includes Adrian and Johan from another KL favourite of mine, Furniture.
Lowercase Noises is Andy Othling’s one man ambient/post-rock band, whom I discovered while watching guitar effects videos on YouTube. His latest album was written for his daughter, Vivian, born just an hour ago.
Vivian (the album) is filled with alternating brooding and uplifting guitar lines, tempered yet hopeful. And of course his signature reversed delay and reverb sounds. It’s a name-your-own-price download over here, so no reason not to check it out.
Ramen Music #06 is out, and it just keeps getting better. 13 tracks from independent and DIY musicians in the nicest mixtape/magazine format around. As always, it’s completely free to share, although I’m glad I have a lifetime subscription. They’ve come a long way, and while there’ve been some misses in the 77 tracks I’ve received this past year, it’s introduced me to so many unsigned, unknown artists that now form the bulk of my folk/indie/soft rock playlists.
I’m still making my way through this issue, but Liseli by June Miller has caught my ear.
Read more and stream/download Ramen Music #06 here »
