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Typography, believability, and what literacy means

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Via the NYTimes.com – Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth. The first part of this two-part series from The New York Times discusses the impact of different fonts on people’s opinions – the font used in a document appears…

Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

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The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap via Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.

Posted in My Design Work, Technology Tagged with: design, fonts, web development

links for 2010-04-23

Posted on April 23, 2010 by

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So You Need A Typeface? Try Julian Hansen’s Font Flowchart | The FontFeed a big fat flowchart defining how to pick one out. Funny. (and useful.) (tags: flowchart typography fonts inspiration) Equal At Birth But Not At Work : Ms Magazine…

I heart Franklin Gothic

Posted on April 8, 2008 by

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I really do. Here it’s a lot more apparently why Franklin Gothic is better – the fanciful lowercase g, the Sturdy uppercase M. In Century Gothic and Futura, the M looks like it’s about to do the splits. In Century…