What’s Golden | Jason Santa Maria
An excellent piece by Stan in which he questions (without rejecting out of hand) applying proportion-based rules to the web, a medium with inherently fluid proportions.
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Typefaces we can all share : Open Font Library
A repository of liberally-licensed fonts to link to with @font-face.
Striking Web Sites with Font Stacks that Inspire - Inspiration Bit
A look at different font stacks out there in the wild.
Seed Conference | Chicago | 6 June 2008
The typography on this page is simply gorgeous. And the event looks good too.
Apostrophe Atrophy
Documenting typographical abuse, specifically when single primes are used instead of apostrophes.
TypeTrust
Epic is a lovely looking new typeface from Neil Summerour.
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Wire & Twine : Subtraction's Fear of a Cooper Black Planet
I need this t-shirt... I need it bad.
The Bygone Bureau » "Rainbows" Reveals a Brighter Tomorrow
Radiohead are distributing their next album themselves. You'll be able to download it for the princely sum of... whatever you feel like paying.
Veer: Products: Merchandise: Helvetica Coffee Mug
I think we should get a whole set for the Clearleft office.
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark)
The paper of Joe's talk at ATypI Brighton. It's fascinating, well-researched stuff.
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”, 1946
A beautifully marked up and typeset copy of George Orwell's classic essay.
i love typography
A new blog dedicated to, yup... typography. Looks like a keeper.
The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration - The Serif
An interview with type designer, Eric Olson.
How To Mix Fonts: Typeface Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for combining typefaces. No hard and fast rules but a handy guide to print out and use.
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com
Here's a handy little bookmarklet that overlays a grid on a web page—very handy for tweaking vertical rhythm and aligning to a baseline.
Color Oracle
A very handy little app that sits in your menu bar on OS X and can instantly show you how your screen would look if you were colour blind.
Mysql database migration and special characters | Orthogonal Thought
This article is a life-saver for me. I'm constantly having trouble with special characters when I'm backing up databases for local copies of my sites.