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Month: April 2009

Algorithm visualization

Visualizations of various sorting algorithms, cool stuff. The original program was written in python, it’s also available using canvas.

Posted 2009/04/24 at 9:43pm / algorithms / coding / computerscience

Google maps typography

Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.

Posted 2009/04/24 at 1:16pm / googlemaps / typography

Infographic history of beer

A short history of beer, told through an infographic.

Posted 2009/04/24 at 12:22pm / alcohol / beer / infographic

Comic Sans documentary

A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.

Posted 2009/04/22 at 6:43pm / comicsans / typography

H&FJ on typesetting large prime numbers

Hoefler & Frere-Jones explore typesetting the world’s largest prime number. The largest prime number has more than twelve million digits, and concluded that even one specific kern pair would save hundreds of feet.

Posted 2009/04/22 at 4:49pm / math / typography

Spiekermann’s tips

Some basic typography tips from Eric Speakermann.

Posted 2009/04/22 at 4:37pm / design / typography

WSJ on Comic Sans

A Wall Street Journal article on Comic Sans, its lovers and its haters. Vincent Connare also gets the WSJ portrait treatment.

Posted 2009/04/22 at 2:12pm / comicsans / typography

Saving newspapers with design

Can design save the newspaper?

Give power to designers. You can work for a small company, in a boring branch. You can have no budget, no people, but still can put your work to the highest possible level. Everyone can do it, you just need inspiration, vision and determination. And you need to remember, that to be good, is not enough.

A short, but inspiring TED presentation.

Posted 2009/04/04 at 11:00pm / design / media / newspapers

Layered Fonts

FF Dingbats 2 is reworked and updated to reflect current technology. It also makes use of OpenType features that allow each pictogram to be treated a series of layers that can be coloured independently.

Posted 2009/04/02 at 12:02pm / fontfont / typeface / typography

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