April 2009
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jQuery File Style →
Styled file inputs by Mika Tuupola, based on the work of Shaun Inman. Sweet. (via Darren Wood)
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Matt Owens of Volume One created the type for this music video in Illustrator, inspired by old fruit crate labels. Beautiful work, added to Nice Type.
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will...”
– From Richard Nixon’s undelivered speech (by his then speechwriter, William Safire) to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon. (via Kris Lane)
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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“Think more, design less. Many desperate acts of design (including gradients,...”
– This quote from Ellen Lupton is dead on, although when used with the right degree of subtlety, the gradients and shadows she mentions will enhance rather than hinder your design. Dan Rubin advocated this same approach in his keynote at Web09: dial back such effects until they almost disappear, until...
Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Typographica →
David Kaneda: One of the best typography sites around realigns, no longer following a strictly-blog format. Gorgeous. “Unchanged since 2002. Now completely new.” And worth waiting for, what a superb new look. Plus, they’ve snuck out their Favourite Typefaces of 2008 unnoticed by me.
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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ListenHot off the wire, here’s Paul Deady’s...
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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“Working from the Tumblr offices today. There is a huge Orwellian plasma TV with...”
– Andrew Wilkinson on Twitter, probably referring to this. Uh guys, at least down here in New Zealand, the time displayed on that thing is slow by exactly eight hours. And David says hi, he’s having a great time despite spending too long in the sun.
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Pxfón →
Shaun Inman’s project from yesterday: Pxfón creates pixel-based javascript font files from GIF images, ready to use with Cufón.
Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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André Michelle’s ToneMatrix, based on the Hobnox AudioTool engine. Click squares to generate music, press spacebar to reset. Update: the component can no longer be embedded outside André’s site, so I’ve removed it from this post. (via Jarred Bishop)
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Disabling Diggbar
Guillermo Esteves posted a JavaScript fix to disable use of the Diggbar on Tumblr sites. Below is a slightly modified version that uses location.replace() to prevent the Diggbar URL from appearing in your browser history: <script type="text/javascript"> if ((top !== self) && (document.referrer.match( /http:\/\/digg.com\/\w{1,8}\/*(\?.*)?/))) { ...
Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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“On Monday, a correspondent called from National Public Radio to discuss the...”
– H&FJ’s Jonathan Hoefler was contacted by Joe Palca, a science correspondent for NPR’s Morning Edition, who was meditating on the best way to convey the magnitude of the largest known prime number.
Apr 9th
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Apr 6th
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Customising the Esquire Theme
Here’s a few tips for anyone who’s installed my recently released Esquire Theme for Tumblr, inspired by the typography and design in the US edition of Esquire magazine: To enable Tim Van Damme’s lovely social media icons you’ll need to edit the theme’s HTML code. If you installed the theme from the Tumblr Garden, go to the Customize page and under Theme select Use...
Apr 5th
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Preserve →
Mark Spurgeon’s archive of hand-lettered signage. (via Type Theory)
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Robert Songsmith →
Songsmith covers of Cure songs, launched today. This will be huge.
Apr 2nd
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