Archive for typography

When I saw the link to “badge creator” (marked as new) on flickriver, I knew I just had to add that to my blog. But somehow the side column was too long already…
Making the whole thing wider, adding the second side column and adding my flickriver favourites was the first change (the most work on […]

…at least from my point of view.
Typography (or whatever you want to call it; the way letters are handled)
If it’s unreadable, your visitors will not be able to read anything, the more readable your website is, the more they will be able to read.
One of the most common cause of problems is “liquid layout”. Say […]

I didn’t plan it. I just woke up today and knew I’d have a new blog in the evening.
As for colours, a great deal of thinking went into that. Yesterday I read a lot about readability on the web. I think it’s something very important that many people completely miss. First, Verdana and Georgia, that’s […]

There are three desirable things, pick any two:

No orphans and widows (meaning single line of paragraph is not cut off on one page with the rest on another)
“Řádkový rejstřík” (that’s Czech, I have no idea what it’s called in english, it means that the lines ((not only) on opposing pages) should be corresponding)
Text area height […]

Hanging has been very popular recently… last week USA hanged Saddam, and now I am going to hang punctuation.
I have learned recently that pdfTeX supports hanging punctuation, which is pretty neat. An example:
\pdfprotrudechars=2
\rpcode\tenrm`\-=300
\rpcode\tenrm`\.=220
\rpcode\tenrm`\,=200
I have made a test of hanging punctuation (open the file and read on). There are six pages, first three typeset in Toruńska […]

I like the good old dynamic serif typefaces (from 15th-17th century). The most well known is Garamond, which is also my favourite one, together with Pastonchi (which is so unknown it doesn’t even have its wikipedia page, although it’s a very sexy typeface (I especially love opennes of the small letter ‘f’ (see the pic […]

Fonts/typefaces are more part of our lifes than most of you think, they are virtually everywhere.
Today I was again deciding which fonts to use as my system fonts (on LCD), it is very difficult to choose wisely, so here are my top candidates: FreeSans (I like it), Arial (well, Micro$oftish, but not that bad, actually […]