What’s Golden | Jason Santa Maria
An excellent piece by Stan in which he questions (without rejecting out of hand) applying proportion-based rules to the web, a medium with inherently fluid proportions.
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Typefaces we can all share : Open Font Library
A repository of liberally-licensed fonts to link to with @font-face.
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Striking Web Sites with Font Stacks that Inspire - Inspiration Bit
A look at different font stacks out there in the wild.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Seed Conference | Chicago | 6 June 2008
The typography on this page is simply gorgeous. And the event looks good too.
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Apostrophe Atrophy
Documenting typographical abuse, specifically when single primes are used instead of apostrophes.
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
TypeTrust
Epic is a lovely looking new typeface from Neil Summerour.
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Wire & Twine : Subtraction's Fear of a Cooper Black Planet
I need this t-shirt... I need it bad.
Monday, October 1st, 2007
The Bygone Bureau » "Rainbows" Reveals a Brighter Tomorrow
Radiohead are distributing their next album themselves. You'll be able to download it for the princely sum of... whatever you feel like paying.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Veer: Products: Merchandise: Helvetica Coffee Mug
I think we should get a whole set for the Clearleft office.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
The paper of Joe's talk at ATypI Brighton. It's fascinating, well-researched stuff.
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946
A beautifully marked up and typeset copy of George Orwell's classic essay.
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
i love typography
A new blog dedicated to, yup... typography. Looks like a keeper.
Monday, August 20th, 2007
The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration - The Serif
An interview with type designer, Eric Olson.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
How To Mix Fonts: Typeface Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for combining typefaces. No hard and fast rules but a handy guide to print out and use.
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com
Here's a handy little bookmarklet that overlays a grid on a web page—very handy for tweaking vertical rhythm and aligning to a baseline.
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Color Oracle
A very handy little app that sits in your menu bar on OS X and can instantly show you how your screen would look if you were colour blind.
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Mysql database migration and special characters | Orthogonal Thought
This article is a life-saver for me. I'm constantly having trouble with special characters when I'm backing up databases for local copies of my sites.