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+![](/media/2015/08/kenneth-type-tester.gif) +
The type tester Kenneth has been working on to help expose the advanced typographic features in Lost Type’s fonts.
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+ +## What’s your typical day like? + +I am lucky enough to have a pretty flexible work schedule. I usually head downtown on the bus and hopefully read a book instead of my Twitter feed. Next, I stop at [Timbertrain](http://timbertraincoffeeroasters.com/)—which features Lost Type’s [Tommaso](http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=tommaso) on their coffee package tags—and then go to the [Chloi office](http://chloi.io/office) where I work on [Surge.sh](https://surge.sh), the service that hosts this very blog! + +## How did you first get interested in typography and type design? + +My two lowest marks in technical college were in typography and JavaScript, and now I write [massive articles about loading web fonts](http://kennethormandy.com/journal/efficient-web-type-circa-1556) using JS, so maybe that played a role. I don’t think there is a clear moment, though. I look back on the projects I’ve done and there was a thread of more and more typography-related work when I had the chance to do something different. + +Jeff Strangman was a big influence as well + +Getting Codex #1 was also a big moment—perhaps pushing me from a casual user and observer of type into an inescapable obsession. It was designed by Working Format, a studio based in Vancouver (I wasn’t living there at the time) and I found out that + +## So… How do you feel about Hobo? + +[Oh no!](https://instagram.com/p/3kIGzvtkKG/) + +## Whats your favorite breakfast food? + +Pancakes. Although I had multiple opportunities to eat pancakes during the field trip and chose other things instead, so who knows. + +
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Kenneth with Marisol, Chaun, Riley, and Danelle on one of the first days of Lost Type’s field trip to Chicago.
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