Pith & pulp — not an image, but perhaps a reversion to type.
The Manual #1 feat. articles from he who is I, 2011→ More
I’m Jon Tan, designer, and co-founder of Analog, Mapalong, and Fontdeck from Bristol, UK.
In 2003, my wife Lowri and I went to a christening party. We were friends of the hosts but we knew almost no-one else…
The first Ampersand web typography conference took place in Brighton last Friday. Ampersand was ace. I’m going to say…
Wow, this has been a busy period. I’m just back from the Ampersand web typography conference in Brighton, and having a…
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…
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Talk is a work in progress. 02–04 Apr 2012 at Pier 66, Bell Harbour, Seattle, WA, USA.
Welcome to the brave new world of web type. 20–22 Nov 2011 at Capitol Theatre, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Screen First. 17 Jun 2011 at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK.
Q&A and storytelling. 21 Jul 2011 at Watershed, Bristol, UK.
Language and the Lizard Brain. 11 Jan 2011 at The Albert Hall, Nottingham, 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 work is about research. It is like being a scientist and being asked about what you’ve discovered. You can…
Paragraphs and puntuation are discussed in great detail.Thanks for this useful read.
I usually go with “I’m a Kick-Ass Web Developer”. I even have it on my linkedin profile. Having…
I work freelance from a small home studio in the middle of rural France. You should see the looks I get when I say…
My common response to the, “What do you do”, question has been: I’m a web-based programmer with a…
My god but did I need to read this. I just nearly heard dramatic music fading in, in the background too. Yeah, the…
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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.