“Audree is type system [not the plant from a Little Shop of Horrors] with several hundred customizable styles. Choosing between fifteen different serif shapes, two construction models, high or low contrast, and adding stencil or inline effects results in unique,…

Sketch.app has become very popular recently. Even though it is available only for the Mac, it is already being termed as a Photoshop and Fireworks killer. If you were looking for some good weapons to add to your Sketch.app arsenal,…

A while ago I announced on Twitter, that it is now 5 years since the Capital Sharp S was added to the Unicode. I was asked, if it has actually been used somewhere in real world situations. A valid question!…

The days of painted letters on signboards is almost over, replaced by digitally produced signs in all manner of material. Yes, some sign painters are practicing today, but not like in the days when, in France, for example, they were…

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Yes, that’s right folks. jQuery 2.0 was released earlier today and the new version is now smaller, faster and better than ever.
What changes have been made? Well, for a start, jQuery 2.0 no longer supports older versions of Internet…

Type “Bad Fonts” into a search engine and you’ll get back a long list of web pages and blogs discussing the authors’ most hated fonts. For the most part, these “worst of” lists are good-humored, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but some are…

Prior to selling my web agency, HotPress Web, last year and starting uGurus, a new venture to help web professionals become more profitable, I pitched a lot of website projects.
My proposal folder has over 950 bids in it. Of…

I was a little disappointed I couldn’t attend the second edition of TYPO San Francisco after speaking there last year, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have my share of conferences before summer. And it starts in just two weeks…

Imagine this: You’re in the process of building a new website, so you need to write copy for the new homepage. It needs to be compelling, and it also needs to connect with potential clients by speaking to their needs…

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With over 700 attendees, speakers and volunteers, the second edition of TYPO San Francisco “Contrast” was again a success. If you couldn’t make the conference or are already going through withdrawal, the videos of no less than five live streams…

About a year ago I wrote an article on the Usability of Résumé Design; a concept that, while well-received, garnered specific feedback from a few voices that I found particularly interesting. Summarized, the gist was that “he uses the word…

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Anyone here have a bunch of strange, unusual, or, shall we say, “quirky” hobbies? Perhaps you like to collect bottle caps from around the world and photograph them as found typography. Or maybe you recycle old computer parts to fashion…