My Favorite Floppy of All Time

After at least 15 years of debating whether I should spend money on this, I recently took the plunge and acquired one of my most-desired Prince collectibles....

Fonts for Contemporary Use

In a blog post that I wrote for work today , I had occasion to use an interrobang as part of a title. Hooray! A chance to exercise some pointless effort in...

Comic Release

Ten years ago, then-Microsoft fontographer Vincent Connare launched the Comic Sans Cafe . During 1994 I noticed that a large number of cartoon/comic style...

Flap Wrapper

A spadia is a page wrapped around the spine of a periodical so as to appear as a narrow flap or partial page. Now you know.

Tidying Up

I made a bunch of improvements to my Daily Links , with more on the way. The blog is AtomEnabled , the layout and font size are improved, the explanatory text...

The Morning News - Typography in <i>The Sun</i>

After Andy shut down Lines & Splines , I was afraid we wouldn’t get great work like his review of the typography of the Wall Street Journal redesign....

to spell her name

This is the thing I want you to remember, for the next time that you need it: (And I hope that next time is soon.) ö is created by the ö entity. Thank you,...

Jim Parkinson's Signs

Jim Parkinson (whom you know from his logotypes and font designs) has an extremely engaging collection of sign photos from around the world. Go check it out.

Nina is a cool little

Nina is a cool little font. It’s like Microsoft Silkscreen . And, while you read about it, now might be a good time for me to point out again that there is an...

If you're running Windows XP

If you’re running Windows XP and have ClearType enabled, you can tune your settings over at the Microsoft Typography website.

I am quite occupied writing

I am quite occupied writing emails to people I met in Texas, because I am trying to be sincere without sounding like an ass-kisser. Interestingly, I keep...

I like the bright, pretty

I like the bright, pretty colors on takarajimasha ‘s site. Especially on the little animated phone.