Pith & pulp — not an image, but perhaps a reversion to type.
Mug-sketch-shot, 1991→ More
Stories are everywhere. When they don’t exist we make up the narrative — we join the dots. We make…
My friend and colleague, Chris, has shared a spiffing idea, the Ideas of March. He suggests: ‘If we all blog a little…
Analog, Mapalong, more tries at trans-Atlantic sleep, Cuba, Fontdeck, and my youngest son entering school; it all happened in…
Yesterday, Cameron Koczon shared a link to the dingbat font, Pictos, by the talented, Drew Wilson. Cameron predicted that…
This image shows a particular optical illusion that confronts us every day. Notice the difference between the black text on…
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Talk in progress. 17 Jun 2011 at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK.
Q&A session. 16 Feb 2011 at The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, Bristol..
Language and the Lizard Brain. 11 Jan 2011 at The Albert Hall, Nottingham, UK.
21 Oct 2010–22 Oct 2010 at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Talking Typography with Elliot Jay Stocks.
16 Jun 2010, Belfast, UK.
A quick discourse on single versus double quotations marks (or inverted commas for us prosiac Brits) and typographic texture.
The many styles of the humble paragraph from pre-history to the Web, with practical examples using CSS.
What is an “em”? Using ems to create an elastic layout with scalable images. Also in Italiano, Deutsch, Español & Russian.
The status of the core web fonts and the font-face property with a few thoughts on making quality faces ubiquitous.
Exploring optimal anti-aliasing for core Web fonts and the rendering engines that make it all possible.
Exploring the ins and outs of @font-face
linking with TrueType and Embedded OpenType (EOT) files using Fontin Regular by Jos Buivenga.
This simple dish was created with a little xHTML, a dash of CSS and a pinch of PHP. It’s garnished with hAtom, hCalendar, XFN, hCard and rel-tag with a large slice of accessible intent. Hopefully it plays nicely, all the time.
Remarks from the Log
By NM in Self-promotion:
By Martin in Reversed Logotype:
By Martin in Typeface != Font:
By David Leader in The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design:
By Sam Orchard in Display Type & the Raster Wars:
By Sam in Introducing Analog: