Fonts and Rhinos

Kerning from xkcd.com

Kerning—the fuck’s that? It’s the spacing between letters in text that’ll be printed. Getting it right is important. Some stupid and amusing examples of bad kerning here.

An intensely cool font I just found via an older My Modern Met post:

Inspired by the nature around her, artist Katie Holten recently developed the New York City Tree Alphabet. Each letter is represented by an illustration of a different type of tree found in NYC. The letter A, for example is depicted as an ash tree, and the letter O is illustrated as an oak. (source)

Are rhinos the arguably less attractive but sturdier, more durable descendants of unicorns? OR, like manatees and mermaids, have unicorns always been rhinos. The site Save the Rhinos has done the research and is convinced that Rhinocerotidae are heir to the unicorn throne.

Zoo-based rhinos, which are most easily studied, are often observed displaying what can only be described as ‘unicorn behaviour’ leaving behind piles of glitter and double rainbows wherever they graze or browse. (source)

Meanwhile a long extinct and totally dead woolly rhino has been discovered in Siberia.

The juvenile rhino with thick hazel-coloured hair and the horn, found next to the carcass was discovered in the middle of August in permafrost deposits by river Tirekhtyakh in the Abyisky ulus (district) of the Republic of Sakha.
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The rhino’s carcass is 80 per cent intact; it was discovered by local resident Alexei Savvin close to the site where the world’s only baby woolly rhino called Sasha was dug out in 2014. Sasha’s age has been since confirmed as 34,000 years.  (source)

Our new wooly friend is thought to have lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. What’s his/her name? Is there enough DNA (or whatever’s needed) to create/clone new woolly rhinos? We can do that now...right? Would they thrive here in Massachusetts? I think Valhalla could really do with a nice woolly rhino. Do they like fancy feast?