Happy new year, typophiles! In the spirit of looking back on the year that was, I thought it’d be interesting to parse through the seemingly limitless font releases of 2010 and give a few hat-tips. There are far too many excellent fonts from last year to mention even a fraction of them, but here, in [...]
Amazon’s Kindle I got a gift recently, one that I'm both excited and, well, quite honestly a little sad about: a Kindle. My excitement stems from my love of technology and gadgets, and all of the obvious benefits of owning an e-reader: easy access to tons of cheap books and periodicals, one tiny device that [...]
Share your work! We have several articles here about using other people's content on your website, depending on what licenses they've used, but we haven't touched on the idea of how you should go about licensing your own content for use on the web. In this post, I've gathered some resources regarding intellectual property licensing, [...]
Card Catalogue, circa 1967 I remember the days (does that make me old? I never thought I’d start a sentence that way...) when searching for something in a library meant a visit to the card catalogue. The card catalogue, for those of you too young to remember, or those of you old enough to remember [...]
As long as there are humans, there will be harmful vices; and as long as there are harmful vices, there are those who will profit from them. Of course, as long as there are people trying to profit from something, there are some marketers who will try to profit from those profiteers. And apart from [...]
There's nothing better than a well-produced infographic — a chart that simply and beautifully captures and displays a bunch of quantitative information that would take pages of text to explain in words. Some things to look for in a good infographic include quick clarity (the presenting of data in not only a lucid but also [...]
You may have noticed, in your travels across the Web, that while web pages have a nearly infinite variability in their overall designs, the fonts on those pages are extremely limited. If you haven't noticed, go ahead and surf to a few pages right now. Go ahead; I'll wait. Most web sites rely on a [...]
