typography
iPad Typography
Hey, you know what I wish the iPad had? More fonts! And a more flexible, powerful typography system in general. Like, a typography system to make the calligraphy-loving Steve Jobs of 1984 proud.
(Also, simulated 3D page-flips are lame. But this has been well-established with more skillful arguments than this one.)
Still pretty excited to a) get an iPad, and b) make something for the iPad. But it’s gonna be a little while yet.
‘A supine round bracket’
Vladimir Nabokov, interview with the New York Times, 1969:
How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of
the immediate past?I often think there should exist a special typographical
sign for a smile–some sort of concave mark, a supine round
bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your
question.
: )
(Shared by a friend on Google Reader.)
I know half of my frosting is wasted… I just don’t know which half
Media needs new metrics. Pageviews and unique users are too crude, too homogenized. They don’t capture the nuance, the humanity, or, frankly, the power of the best audiences on the web today.
So, you remember Daily Drop Cap. Of course you do. It’s lovely. And it’s six days old.
Someone baked a Daily Drop Cap cake.
You’ve already guessed it, haven’t you? I propose time-to-cake as a new media metric—sort of a proxy for virality and engagement. Also, sometimes, for deliciousness. So, in this case, Daily Drop Cap scores a TTC of 6, which is pretty awesome.
Type in space
I don’t always love it when type gets sort of reduced to a graphic element—just pretty shapes—but these shapes are so pretty, so sublime, that in this case, I’m all for it.
Daily Drop Cap
aily Drop Cap is a new blog from Jessica Hische. She draws a beautiful new drop cap every day (you probably guessed that part, huh?) and, brilliantly, provides the code to use it in a blog post. Like I just did.