I spent a couple of hours today trying to find the right page dimensions for Parsons’ Cove, a new tunebook project of mine. Most, perhaps all, of the printed matter between the covers is a set of stills from video I took this summer in Maine: 640 × 480 pixels. At 160 dpi, this comes […]
Andy Budd and John Hicks have been thinking about typography lately (so has Dan Cederholm, as I noted in an earlier post). John put together a short list of fairly random typography-related stuff mostly about buying fonts and digital font management. Andy has been publishing lists of the six fonts popular web design bloggers would […]
Now that I’m back from Alabama and (as of yesterday) home in Troy for a little while, I’m returning to work on a bunch of projects, including the two installations I developed for my department’s Spring show. Building on the work I did then, choosing an appropriate text font, I’m digging deeper now, doing more […]
I’m looking around for the right font to use for the text in the book I’m designing for my show at Rensselaer this May. Starting with a post from Cameron Moll’s blog that I’ve been saving in my Bloglines for a while, I made my way through an interesting thread of sites and am so […]
I haven’t tried this but it looks like a good way to retain pixel precision and allow all users to resize your fonts if they want to: How to size text using ems.
In other news, I forgot my voice mail password at work. This totally sucks, because it’s taken me until about a week ago […]
Styling links with CSS is a huge improvement over <font> tags, but using common CSS syntax for links (the a tag, and selectors such as :link, :visited, and :hover) doesn’t exclude anchor tags from link styling. This article from Dave Baron offers a great standards-compliant solution.
Check out this really nice typography site I found yesterday. with free fonts and beautiful design.