(2019-06-16) Sloan On John August

Robin Sloan: Week 25, running a ladder factory. John August is a screenwriter

Years ago, John also took a swing at a script for Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

John is a great worker-in-public, primarily through the long-running podcast called Scriptnotes. For screenwriters real and aspiring, it’s an ongoing master class, all about craft

John August is also the force behind Highland, an app that brought lightness and simplicity to screenplay-writing

AND THEN – be still my heart – for use with Highland, he commissioned the creation of a new font called Courier Prime

You can see the appeal here, right? The combination of practical excellence with a deep curiosity about tools that extends into making, and sharing, his own. The generosity and – really more important – the discipline to distribute expertise and attention. (Media Inventor)