Archive for category: Typography

Debunking myths about ClearType fonts    (2005.03.27)

Fixing Anne Van Wagener’s many mistakes in her article about ClearType fonts

If you hate Arial    (2005.03.25)

New Flickr group: A Hate-On for Arial

Typography for the Screen    (2005.03.15)

Liveblogging a panel from South by Southwest 2005: Typography for the Screen

Esteemed colleagues met in Boston    (2005.03.06)

Whom did I meet in Boston? A photographic essay

No more shitty caption fonts    (2005.02.16)

Announcing the launch of Screenfont.ca

Well-tagged weighted lists    (2005.01.23)

How to code a weighted list semantically

Memo to Apple: License the ClearType fonts    (2005.01.21)

The ClearType Font Collection is the sort of Microsoft product Apple *should* license for Macs

Unicode characters that are actually more than one character    (2005.01.10)

In the immortal words of my esteemed colleague upon laying eyes on these, “That’s some weird-looking shit.” Note also that Spanish CH · ch and LL · ll are nowhere to be found. Unicode Components ‼ !! ⁇ ?? ⁈ ?! ⁉ !? ⁂ *** … … IJ   ij IJ   ij Ľ   ľ L’   l’ […]

Amazon cannot handle ligatures    (2004.12.19)

Amazon cannnot convert ct and st ligatures to plain text