Photos via Flickr
Stubs via Del.ico.usUseful tool to check interface design widths with a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google.
A very useful little app for analysing language support and font metrics from Andrew Thompson; it hasn't been updated in a while but still seems to work fine on OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard.
Thomas Phinney on Windows font rendering. Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in web fonts.
John Perry, Philosophy professor at Stanford on procrastination. A delightful set of thoughts on procrastination as perfectionism, and potential upsides of all that sitting around thinking.
Multi-lingual placeholder text for testing language support in fonts. Fantastic tool.
A company of friends who make web sites from yours truly, Andrei Zmievski, Alan Colville, Chris Shiflett, and Jon Gibbins.
Fantastic tool from ImageOptim. I've had up to 50% savings on PNGs with transparency. Highly recommended.
Turning off ClearType for better display / headline rendering in IE by allcreatives.net
I love Montefiore, Reader, Pantograph and lyrical Peggs. Superb work.
An interview just now on Radio 4 with Richard Williams resonated with me. After six years apprenticing with the likes of Chuck Jones, Ken Harris, Milt Kahl and Art Babbitt, one of them said that he was starting to ‘get spacing’ and ‘could be an animator’. He said he was angry at the time, but he realised he was ‘a fake’ before. There was so much craft to learn. He was 45 at the time. ‘Change is the basis of all animation. Animation is all in the timing and spacing. You must show where the weight is, where it is coming from and where the weight is going to.’ — Richard Williams.
Moments via TwitterCatching up with @pgunn over Guinness — he’s making a Gatwick feeder hotel bearable before we fly in the morning.
I meant to say: righto, I'm off; indolence is immanent.
And lo, packed up there tent and were ready to journey into the wilds of indolence; an activity known as a holiday to post-modern man.
Shopping is for the masochist in us. Kite bits, family luggage, and odds and sods secured. Films await. Peace (and thus victory) is mine!
RT @shiflett Congrats to studio mate @jessicahische on being selected as @lettercult’s person of the year: http://j.mp/hische — +1, nice!
Off to the kite shop for parts to fix a long-suffering stunt rig and prepare for lazy beach days.
RT @DutchTypeJam: He is one of the true originals of Dutch digital type design. Follow @petrvanblokland
Pre-planning for Cuba: 1. Get a bag. 2. Get plug adapters. 3… sleep on three. G’night and fare thee well.
RT @jessicahische: now for sale! Day-Ruining Invoice notepads! http://buystufffrom.jessicahische.com/product/day-ruining-notepads
8 Faces text is done and on its way to his curliness @elliotjaystocks ! I swear, it would have been easier to pick just one typeface.
Super family it is. Thanks! Extra cheers to @H_FJ for a reminder that Sly and the Family Stone once covered Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man.
Regarding a typeface with multiple variants of sans, serif, slab, etc? E.g. Unit. What's your preferred term? Super family? Meta family?
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Events via Upcoming12 Mar 2010
Austin Convention Center, Austin
All of my bombast can be tracked via friendfeed.
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.
