Author archive
- I just saved you 17 grand (2005.07.21)
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How to debunk typographic research
- Longhorn type and accessibility (2005.07.20)
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I AM PRIMED (R) AND OPTIMIZED (R) FOR BLINDNESS
- Cranes building cranes (2005.07.19)
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How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.
- AK2K (2005.07.19)
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It figures that Alaskans would be übersurvivalists and would still feel cheated! that Y2K didn’t result in apocalypse after all.
(If the notation really refers to the Alaska Gold Rush Centennial [Caslon Antique, anyone?], then why doesn’t it read AK 1K or AK K?)
- Collect-o-Mania (2005.07.19)
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I have a vague memory of Letraset faces like this one.
- B-links, July 18 (2005.07.18)
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B-links, July 18
- Hella (2005.07.18)
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Wow, this takes me back. Do they also still make Hakkapeliitta fog lamps and driving lamps?
(Hella, admittedly, fits on a lamp cover hella more conveniently than Hakkapeliitta would. And it’s a classic Helvetica usage. But are you supposed to stop your car in the pouring rain, walk out to the front bumper [at risk of being hit by another vehicle], and pull off the antimacassars just so you can switch the lights on?)
- ‘Nostalgic’ my arse (2005.07.18)
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Lucida fucking Fax is not fucking “nostalgic,” unless you were born in the 1980s.
- Jittery Urdu outlining (2005.07.18)
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I don’t get this at all. The black type seems OK, I guess (and appears to show the Nastaliq writing style, with the shifting and angled baselines).
So why’d they have to go and outline everything in blue ballpoint?
