At Home in the Universe
Posted in architecture, chaordic, computing, creative, english, network, open source, smart software, typography on Oct 9th, 2007
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.
Posted in english, typography on Oct 2nd, 2007
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 by Wislon Miner. Thanks Wilson.
Posted in english, smart software, typography on Jun 27th, 2007
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Posted in english, typography on Apr 21st, 2007
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 anyone notice?) obeys the law. Unfortunately, Web fonts don’t allow custom kerning pairs, so you [...]
Posted in english, typography on Apr 4th, 2007
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 de Groot.
Posted in english, typography on Apr 4th, 2007
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 king have shoe size 49?. Nice and clean piece of work on emdashes, endashes, single [...]