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I Don't Know Where The Sunbeams End & The Starlights Begin It's All A Mystery

About Me

dincTYPE is your one-stop pop culture home on the web. Diane DiPiazza who is me, is literally a warehouse of pop culture, and she/I strive to put that to good use for your pleasure.
dinc! came into existence in the early days of the internet as a commercial type company. Some years later when the web became the "way too much information" superhighway, the internet really lost its appeal.
I tried to bring a little fun back to the web by making dinc! a free font company and gearing it more towards my own interests: the preservation and pursuit of pop culture of the highest order.
At our website you will find tons of instantly downloadable FREE FONTS. If that's not enough fun for you, we have great videos of all your (that means mine) favorite popstars, a great retro modern design, ridiculously inexpensive vintage black and white line art in font format, which you can't possibly live without.
The roller coaster ride of pop culture that is dincTYPE.
More about diane: Frequently seen carrying stacks of magazines home from the newstand, riding a vintage Vespa scooter, playing stoopball in Hoboken, drinking YooHoo and eating Wise potato chips. Sometimes auto mechanic and motorhead, she often carries a large crescent wrench and never wears a hat.
I'm involved in this unbelievably long drawn out process of recording a demo album on which I play all the instruments, including a snare drum. I'm very proud of the snare drum playing. Oh well, yeah, I don't play lead guitar or piano because enough is enough already. I recruit my friends for that. It has a title: Last Year's Fab Rave which I'm sticking with no matter what. Actually, I'm a total cliche: A mike & boom... in my living room. I'm not sure when I'll wrap this up. It has a life of its own. Keep you posted. I'm sure you're dying to hear it.
Want more? OK. I am painfully aware of the fact that the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders is 1 in 150 children. dincTYPE and I myself are huge supporters of autism diagnosis, awareness, research, inclusion and EDUCATION. In fact we all do everything we can to further support of autism education and services.
There are a lot more than 17 reasons we support autism research and education. Actually there are 1.5 million reasons. That's how many people in the world are estimated to have an autism spectrum disorder. Support Autism Speaks, do what you can.
This is the first thing visitors see when they walk into the dincTYPE studio. These rules are not negotiable under any circumstances. There are lots of post it notes around it as the list of the unlistenable continues to grow. The dincTYPE studio is not a democracy. It's a monarchy and the diPOD rules. It's so great.

My Interests

Love At First Sight is the only way I can describe the feeling I got when I saw this guitar. Can you feel the love?

From Waterstone Guitars, The Cumulus is just one of a wonderful collection of supercool mod guitars. Click on the Waterstone logo to see Cumulus in all its glory and the entire collection. Prepare to be dazzled.

I'd like to meet:



Jane Fonda's mugshot looks just like a Tegan and Sara album cover. There's two of her just like them. When Paul McGregor invented the shag haircut he was truly inspired. Actually he cut my first shag when I was 18 years old, a haircut that served me well for many years. It is the best haircut ever.

Music:

The first British Invasiion .. The second British Invasion .. The NYC Punk Invasion .. Britpop ..

Elvis Costello.. Bob Dylan.. Gram Parsons .. Patti Smith who transcends music and poetry and made the greatest rock n'roll record of all time.

Movies:

All of Martin Scorcese's films, all Tony Scott films, Quentin Tarantino's films and anything Alan Cumming is in. Denzel Washington. Lots of films. I can't choose favorites.

Television:

It makes me happy to say I do not own a TV. Really.

I never even accidentally stumble upon a reality show or political commentary at my house or at the studio.

Books:

I love them. I read them. Last page first. Sometimes I design their jackets. I have a bachelor's degree in english literature so you could say...

"Once I glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks now I've read every one."

Is that cool? Yeah.

Heroes:

My best friend: The Pie

My Blog

Dog Eat Dog

It is, isn't it? We have a brand spanking new free font just for you. It's called Woof Squared and it's cute big or small.  Pick one up at dincTYPE today before they're all gone.   ...
Posted by dinc! on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:41:00 PST

Mo' Better New

You need new fonts. So do we. That's why we make 'em. We love this one... Mess Kit. It was made from an actual rubber stamp set. We used it for some handbills we recently designed. Needless to sa...
Posted by dinc! on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:53:00 PST

2-4-6-8 Motorway

Moon June Spoon Croon... I do know all the words by heart. Today I declare to be one of the ten best days of the year. Winter is over and it feels like June. Sunny and 70 degrees absolutely perfect...
Posted by dinc! on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:24:00 PST