typography on S Anand

Random notes

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:44:48 +0000

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.

Just finished seeing Casino Royale. Usual average movie. 3,3,1.

I hate that git doesn’t work. I hate that my mobile broadband dongle doesn’t work. I hate that I have too much to do.

I love beautiful typography. line-height:1.5 and a nice Georgia to go with it. (Yeah, Ram had this one right: madness is not a result of being in GramEner. It’s a pre-requisite.)

Well, dinner’s ready.

AmazType

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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

How we recognise words

Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:00:00 +0000

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.

Top 10 web design mistakes of 2002

Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

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

Textarc

Wed, 15 May 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Textarc – a visual way of representing text.

Straight Dope

Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

Typographic

Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:00:00 +0000

typographic. All you wanted to know about fonts.

Plants and animals with strange patterns

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:00:00 +0000

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.