In trying to prevent injury to fish and birds by cutting up my plastic rings, I managed to slice up my finger pretty good.
Working on Globe crossword and…
Working on Globe crossword and plugin for We Love Typography. Also thinking about redoing eightface.
Starting to watch Band of…
Starting to watch Band of Brothers again, it’s been a few years.
Went golfing this aft in…
Went golfing this aft in the odd mid-20c weather we were having, played half-decent with a couple pars. Now rocking a sunburn.
Short typography movies
Algorithm visualization
Visualizations of various sorting algorithms, cool stuff. The original program was written in python, it’s also available using canvas.
Google maps typography
Google maps typography. Rhett Dashwood culled a series of satellite images from the state of Victoria that resemble letterforms.
Infographic history of beer
Comic Sans documentary
A short student documentary about Comic Sans that Marc mentioned after my previous post.
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.
Spiekermann’s tips
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.