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The whole point of a blog is to be able to write what I want, isn’t it? Without the need to be coherent. Intelligent. Useful. I read somewhere, in a top 10 list of advice to programmers – to avoid constipation. It’s actually good advice. It gives you a headache for the rest of the day. That piece of code is really not worth it, trust me. But then, when you have a headache, there isn’t anything quite as beautiful and relaxing as code. Or good documentation. Like node.js docs, for example. ...

AmazType is a typographic book search based on Amazon. I didn’t understand what that meant either, until I searched for Six Degrees. Try it. Then click on a few of the book images. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 7:56 am: Cool :D

Excellent article by a Microsoft cognitive psychologist on how we recognise words. We recognize a word’s component letters simultaneously, then use that visual information to recognize a word.

Jakob Nielsen’s top 10 web design mistakes of 2002. Fortunately, I was committing only one of them – fixed font sizes. Now rectified.

Textarc – a visual way of representing text.

Straight Dope tells me that lorem ipsum dolor sit… is not complete nonsense after all. It’s based on a speech by Cicero.

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

typographic. All you wanted to know about fonts.

Kjell Sandved goes about taking photographs of plants and animals that have strange patterns. You have to see the moth with a ‘Hi’ written on it to believe.