Category Archives: typography

Levitated | the Exploration of Computing

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.

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Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

While working on a new stylesheet (CSS) for my web presence, and being a zealot when it comes to a baseline grid snapping all text, I found this wonderful article on Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid … Continue reading →

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ScriptCloud for your tag cloud

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

adaptive agile aligned ambition architecture attendees blending brand builds chairing challenging clients collaboration compiler connects consecutive consultants corporate delegates etc excel executing externally facilitate focusing gap graphic het hosting implemented infrastructure ingredients initiated innovation inspiration interface links logo margin moderating … Continue reading →

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The Math of Text Readability

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

The Math of Text Readability: “An anonymous reader writes ‘Wired magazine has an article that explains The Law of Optical Volumes, a formula for spacing the letters on a printed page that results in maximum readability. Wired’s new logo (did … Continue reading →

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Sun font by Lucas de Groot

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

While on the topic of fonts, the Sun font is my standard and favorite, as you can see on AardRock’s home page. The Sun font is designed by Lucas de Groot from FontFabrik. Even Wikipedia has a page on Lucas … Continue reading →

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Martin Majoor and his literary typeface

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Martien van Steenbergen

I’ve got something with fonts. Especially sans fonts. A couple of months ago, I got a small booklet handed out by Premsela titled “Morf 4“. Martin Majoor writes about the correct use of typography in is article Did the French … Continue reading →

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