Archive for September 2005
- Art Deco shipping and receiving (2005.09.22)
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I find this sign a curiosity. Little giveaways make it look recently-created (“12 noon” with space but “1pm” without; and note well that they are using lower case), plus there’s the graffito and the sticker plunked onto it.
But then we have the Art Deco–inspired small caps. What to think?
- Line lengths when reading from a screen (2005.09.21)
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A research review suggests that longer line lengths are read faster, even if people don’t like them
- Why is Don Knuth special? (2005.09.20)
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I dunno. Because he designed a shitty font and has everybody address him as “Professor Knuth”?
- How not to test an accessible audiobook service (2005.09.20)
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A test of downloadable audiobooks for the blind used an inaccessible Web site, inaccessible and unusable players, and DRM out the arse
- Fisking Patric(k) King (2005.09.17)
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Response to Patric(k) King’s article in Print about Web standards and visual design
- Cubelvetica (2005.09.14)
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Man, that’s bright.
- Indie rock’s vacation getaway (2005.09.14)
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- Pronunciation test (2005.09.14)
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Ages ago, Musto did a one-liner:
Pronounce this name. [HOLDS UP SIGN READING “WOLFGANG JOOP”]
Now try it with this:
