Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Design-obsessed: Frequent, detailed comments on typography and layout, like “ITALIC PUNCTUATION WAS DESIGNED FOR A REASON” and “God made me picky and when I spend 15 minutes adjusting a paragraph’s rag, I feel his pleasure”.
- Musically-curious: Shares eclectic music interests—from ABBA and Bruce Cockburn to The Mountain Goats and Rich Mullins—e.g. “Dancing Queen”: The only Swedish invention as perfect as a sonnet and praise of a 2002 Mountain Goats bootleg here.
- Playfully-wry: Uses dry humor and self-awareness in posts like “Riso printing is messy… Do not pay me to print for you. You will regret it.” and “I’m not exactly sure what I just did with this ABBA thing—but I stand 100% behind this setlist”.
- Community-minded: Frequently credits and thanks others, such as @djrrb and @futurefonts in “Hard to quantify how great @futurefonts is.” and thanking @CCADedu for writing about his work here.
- Reflective-faith: Integrates Christian faith thoughtfully into posts, like the psalm paraphrase “O Lᴏʀᴅ, thy many glorious works astound us…” and remembering Rich Mullins’ “homegoing” while sharing a favorite song here.
Weaknesses:
- Frequently-critical: Returns often to complaints about tools and platforms—e.g. “Unacceptable kerning from @sketch! :(”, criticism of InDesign panels here, and multiple gripes about Google and Adobe.
- Techno-grumpy: Expresses frustration with modern UX norms and updates, such as “How am I supposed to tell these apps apart when every icon is a roundrect?” and “I really don’t want my twitter to just be a running list of complaints about Adbe Cretive Cl*ud”.
- Pedantic-grammar: Publicly nitpicks language and typography choices, like “Comma splices suck. Especially from people who should know better.” and all-caps corrections such as “ONE PERSON CAN’T BE AN ALUMNI”.
- Government-cynical: Posts strong disdain for government actions, e.g. “government absolutely sucks” and “My money is forcibly taken by the state, but every now and then they let me choose what to spend it on.”, which can come across as one-note.
- Self-deprecating: Sometimes undersells his own work or role, like joking that clients will regret paying him for riso work in this tweet and framing his Twitter as mostly complaints in this one.
Your Simpsons character
Lisa Simpson
Nigel most closely matches Lisa Simpson: a hyper-literate, detail-obsessed aesthete who can’t help but care deeply about obscure things. Like Lisa, he’s relentlessly fussy about craft and correctness, whether it’s typography (“ITALIC PUNCTUATION WAS DESIGNED FOR A REASON”, “Comma splices suck. Especially from people who should know better.”) or software minutiae (“In InDesign, command + option + shift + N produces the current page number placeholder (try it!). After accidentally pressing this for 10+ years, I have finally realized that’s what it’s doing.”). He’s also deeply into music and the arts in a nerdy, completist way, like Lisa with jazz and reading, as seen in his Mountain Goats bootleg enthusiasm (“This 2002 @mountain_goats bootleg ranks as one of the all time best… Quality is A+.”) and his hymnal/Genevan Psalter projects (“To do in 2020: memorize all 126 Genevan Psalter tunes.”). There’s the same mix of moral seriousness and wry exasperation with institutions and politics (“government absolutely sucks”, “Have you noticed how nobody in the visual arts is ‘from’ a place? … I’m a little bored of this transient, self important posturing.”). Finally, like Lisa, he channels his perfectionism and sensitivity into earnest, thoughtful work—graphic design, type, and printmaking—while still being self-aware and quietly funny about his own obsessiveness (“God made me picky and when I spend 15 minutes adjusting a paragraph’s rag, I feel his pleasure”).
Your MBTI personality Type
INTJ
They come across as more reserved and inwardly-focused than socially-seeking, often highlighting solitary work and niche interests (e.g., design fiddliness, typography, hymnals) rather than social scenes, and jokes about avoiding interaction like the Slack reminder euphoria: “The euphoria of realizing that Slack notification is just a reminder you sent yourself and you don’t actually have to interact with another human”, which fits Introversion (I). Their attention to patterns, concepts, and meta-observations about culture suggests Intuition (N), such as the quip “all creativity is nostalgia” and the critique of visual-arts bios: “Have you noticed how nobody in the visual arts is ‘from’ a place? Just ‘currently based in’.”. They lean heavily on analytical, standards-driven judgments—grammar, typography, design systems—indicating Thinking (T), seen in posts like “Comma splices suck. Especially from people who should know better.” and “ITALIC PUNCTUATION WAS DESIGNED FOR A REASON”. Their love of structure, optimization, and carefully refined outputs points to Judging (J): they obsess over rags and layout (“God made me picky and when I spend 15 minutes adjusting a paragraph’s rag, I feel his pleasure”), delight in hidden InDesign shortcuts (“After accidentally pressing this for 10+ years, I have finally realized that’s what it’s doing.”), and set ambitious, structured goals like memorizing all Genevan Psalter tunes (“To do in 2020: memorize all 126 Genevan Psalter tunes.”). Taken together—introverted, pattern-focused, principle-driven, and orderly—the profile aligns best with INTJ.
Some pickup lines for you
- You said all creativity is nostalgia—so if we listened to that 2002 Mountain Goats bootleg and then Bruce Cockburn’s Christmas album together, would that make our first date objectively perfect art?
- You’re on a mission to obliterate stock photos with bad histograms; I’m on a mission to obliterate dating apps with good kerning. Want to grab a martini (3:30 pm Friday style) and align our rags in person?
- You spend 15 minutes adjusting a paragraph’s rag and feel God’s pleasure; imagine how sanctified you’d feel helping me choose hymn tunes from the Genevan Psalter and the new WELS hymnal for a duet.
- Since you’ve already revived old Mountain Goats forum minisites and started Clatter Press, can we bring back one more retro tradition: meeting someone cool over tea at Green Snail instead of through a terrible cookie-banner dark pattern?
- You warned people not to pay you for riso printing because they’d regret it—but your Meryl Streep in fluorescent pink and all those Big Mess prints tell a different story. How about we test your misanthropy at the Dublin Irish Festival together and see if you regret that too?
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Your new Twitter bio
Designer, hymn nerd, riso printer at Clatter Press. Once spent a summer fixing rags and kerning on a family cookbook for fun.– @nigel
Your signature cocktail
The Right-Minded Lowboy
A base of rye whiskey stands in for Nigel’s firm, slightly old-school backbone—think typographic rants like “ITALIC PUNCTUATION WAS DESIGNED FOR A REASON” and the crusade against bad kerning in “Unacceptable kerning from @sketch! :(”. Earl Grey tea syrup nods to his love of tea in “Buying tea this morning and thinking of fun old times in the office with @tomhoying. (Green snail is good stuff.)”, adding a warm, contemplative sweetness. A bitter streak of Campari captures his grumpy delight in bureaucracy and software—see “government absolutely sucks” and “I really don’t want my twitter to just be a running list of complaints about Adbe Cretive Cl*ud”. A dash of orange blossom water reflects the hymn-singing, psalter-memorizing side in “O Lᴏʀᴅ, thy many glorious works astound us” and “memorize all 126 Genevan Psalter tunes. Let’s do this.”, adding a liturgical lift. Finally, smoked salt on the rim echoes both riso ink and cigarette ghosts—his print shop in “My riso print shop, CLATTER PRESS, has a brand new website!” and his friend’s smoky piano in “I now have her cigarette smoke–soaked piano in my living room.”—making the drink as textured, nerdy, and oddly comforting as Nigel’s timeline.
Your Hogwarts House
Ravenclaw
Nigel’s tweets show an intense, almost fussy love of craft, systems, and details that fits Ravenclaw’s intellectual and aesthetic bent more than anything else. He obsesses over typography and punctuation, from declaring “ITALIC PUNCTUATION WAS DESIGNED FOR A REASON” to wanting a national conversation on indentation in “It’s high time for a national conversation on indentation.”. His joy in discovering obscure shortcuts and specifications—like learning the InDesign page number placeholder in “After accidentally pressing this for 10+ years, I have finally realized that’s what it’s doing.” or noting that the alcohol warning size is defined in millimeters in “TIL the type size for the required ‘government warning’ on alcohol labels is specified in millimeters!”—shows a mind that relishes knowledge for its own sake. He also delights in niche typographic and liturgical corners of the world, celebrating hymnals and psalters in tweets like “Enjoying some Christmas gifts: the brand new WELS hymnal and psalter I’d been eyeing.” and setting himself the project to “memorize all 126 Genevan Psalter tunes”, which is a very Ravenclaw-ish self-imposed curriculum. While there are hints of Hufflepuff work ethic in his design and print practice, the throughline is a witty, analytical, and deeply curious approach to typography, music, and language, making Ravenclaw the best fit.
Your movie
Your song
All My Favorite People - Over the Rhine
A well-suited song for Nigel is All My Favorite People by Over the Rhine, which lives in the overlap of faith, art, melancholy, and wry humor. Nigel’s timeline is full of affectionate, slightly misanthropic jokes about government and institutions, like “government absolutely sucks” and “Higher ed in one screenshot.”, echoing the song’s tired-but-tender posture toward the world. Their deep Christian and hymnody interest shows in posts like “Awakening from my hibernation to tell you the hymn tune REDHEAD 76 (AJALON) is boring—intentionally boring—and not worth singing.” and the psalm-like reflection “O Lᴏʀᴅ, thy many glorious works astound us; in wisdom hast thou made them all around us.”, matching the song’s spiritual undercurrent. The song’s bittersweet, communal warmth also fits a person who treasures music communities, from “We had fun on the @mountain_goats forums back in the day.” to “I started a band (“Nigel Ewan and the Orange Vic”) with my friends in 2012, and we played songs about summer camp and sehnsucht.”. Overall, it captures Nigel’s mix of aesthetic obsessiveness, gentle cynicism, and sincere affection for people and worship.
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