Vol. I · No. 4 — Monday, September 28, 2026

Records · Diagrams · Marginalia

The Foolscap Folio

Written & set by J. P. Bonner — printed on cream stock in spruce ink



Lead article · Maritime data

The Shrinking Atlantic

In 1838 the crossing took fifteen days and a following wind. By 1952 it took three and a half. A century of boiler pressure, rivet counts, and national vanity, read from the record book of the Blue Riband.

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Fig. ARecord average speed of the westbound Atlantic crossing, 1838–1952, in knots. From the article's dataset.

Index of Articles

4 entries

No. 4 · Sep 28, 2026

The Shrinking Atlantic

The Blue Riband as a dataset: what a hundred years of record crossings say about engineering at full steam.

Data historyCharts

No. 3 · Sep 11, 2026

On Ruling a Page

Hairline, rule, and double rule: how newspapers divided attention before anyone said “information architecture.”

Typography

No. 2 · Aug 30, 2026

The Draftsman's Alphabet

Why engineering lettering was uppercase, monospaced, and proud of it — and what UI labels owe the stencil.

LetteringSchematics

No. 1 · Aug 14, 2026

A Blog, Founded

A short prospectus: what this publication is for, and the standing rules of its composition.

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