Jon Tangerine.

Pith & pulp — not an image, but perhaps a reversion to type.

Flatbush Ave

Sunday morning at Flatbush and 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY → Refresh

Preface

Hi, I’m Jon Tan, lead designer at Grow Collective in Bristol, UK.

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Lately in the Log

  1. Typographers, lend me your pain — Fri, 2nd May 2008 {9}

    Dear web typographers and designers, I need your help (and your woes!) A couple of days back, Jason Teague, Director of Web…

  2. An Ephemeral Site: Denna Jones — Fri, 25th Apr 2008 {21}

    Denna Jones is a designer, and we recently launched a site for her that is unlike any other that Jon Gibbins and I have done…

  3. A Site for Sore Eyes: OmniTI — Thu, 24th Apr 2008 {6}

    You may have seen the recent case study featuring the evolution of OmniTI’s brand mark. Work on their new web site…

  4. Naked in Tahiti (where’s Ms CSS?) — Wed, 9th Apr 2008 {7}

    Naked again. Why, oh why every year do I feel the urge to cast off the perfidity of style and expose my structure to the…

  5. Iterations in Brand Design: OmniTI — Mon, 7th Apr 2008 {6}

    OmniTI are instantly recognisable to almost anyone interested in open source development, scalability or security. Their…

  6. Conditional Comments after Installing IE8 beta — Fri, 21st Mar 2008 {9}

    Overcoming daft hurdles before work can even start is a pain. Getting multiple versions of IE working used to be one of them…

  7. Preparing for HTML5 with Semantic Class Names — Thu, 6th Mar 2008 {7}

    Some time ago I was asked in an interview whether I preferred HTML or CSS. It was a bit like being asked if I prefer pens…

  8. Adios, IE8 Meta Mayhem! — Tue, 4th Mar 2008 {2}

    I’ve been holding back on a comment on the recent furor about the IE8 meta http-equiv switch. Mainly because the great…

  9. You can browse all entries in full via the log archive →

Featured from the log

  1. The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS

    What is an “em”? Using ems to create an elastic layout with scalable text and images. Also in Italiano, Deutsch and Español.

  2. What Future for Web Typography & Screen Fonts?

    The core web fonts are in stasis. Whither licensing with the font-face property? This is a few thoughts on making quality faces with mutliple fonts ubiquitous.

  3. Designer PHP: A Simple Include

    The first in a series of simple PHP tutorials to make interface design more efficient and easy to update.

  4. Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts

    Exploring optimal anti-aliasing for core Web fonts and the rendering engines that make it all possible.

Remarks from the log

  1. By cath in An Ephemeral Site: Denna Jones:

    Hi Jon This seriously rocks – love it. I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind – how did you…

  2. By Fubiz in Typographers, lend me your pain:

    By the way, beautiful template!

  3. By Tagesgeld in Naked in Tahiti (where’s Ms CSS?):

    Innovative idea – it’s simple, it has social media potential and it’s something almost every…

  4. By Andre Tagesgeld in Designer PHP: A Simple Include:

    Very useful tutorial for newbies, thanks. As I’m writing something similar on a different technolgy-basis, it…

Snippets from the Silo

  1. Core Web fonts test suite

  2. Pixels to ems conversion for CSS

  3. Placeholder Markup

  4. Complex type rendering test

  5. Elasic Layout Example from the article

  6. Using phpinfo() to Discover the PHP Version and Modules Installed on your Server

  7. POSH (plain old semantic HTML) badge

  8. HTML button test

Work with me via ~ Grow Collective ~ a creative consortium.