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When Readability harms readability    (2012.03.07)

The Readability app supposedly makes Web pages easier to read. What does it do to pages that are already easy to read?

Toronto mediocrity meets federal-government mediocrity    (2011.09.15)

The slapdash signs at the downtown Toronto passport office. To paraphrase Morrissey: “Why?”

Faux fonts of ‘Funkytown’    (2011.03.15)

It’s Arial! Arial! Everywhere! in Steve Galluccio’s homage to disco Montreal, Funkytown

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl

Battle of the business card    (2010.09.23)

Patrick Bateman, American Psycho: “Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God – it even has a watermark”

Another failure of public typography    (2010.09.07)

Women’s College Hospital in Toronto proposes to plaster Arial caps (with neutral apostrophe) all over their windows

Where Microsoft beats Apple    (2010.04.12)

Microsoft beats Apple in typography. This abomination cannot stand. Here, then, some ways to fix the problem

Ascender v. House    (2009.08.13)

Compare and contrast the commitment to quality and high standards of House Industries and AscenderFonts

TypeCon of yore    (2009.01.22)

What I had proposed for TypeCon 2008