Author archive

Close-Order Swanning About    (2005.07.22)

‘I’ll scratch your eyes out’

I just saved you 17 grand    (2005.07.21)

How to debunk typographic research

Longhorn type and accessibility    (2005.07.20)

I AM PRIMED (R) AND OPTIMIZED (R) FOR BLINDNESS

Cranes building cranes    (2005.07.19)

How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.

AK2K    (2005.07.19)

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)

I have a vague memory of Letraset faces like this one.

B-links, July 18    (2005.07.18)

B-links, July 18

Hella    (2005.07.18)

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)

Lucida fucking Fax is not fucking “nostalgic,” unless you were born in the 1980s.