Design wisdom in red and grey.
thepoet: Who is this @JasmineTiy and why is he/her/it they keep on spamming @thepoet in their twit. I don’t even know what they are saying. →
JasmineTiy: How comes there’s 2 @thepoet iz dat even possible →
thepoet: @twitter f*d up big time on the username. there’s two @thepoet @thePOET so that’s why i’m getting all these replies who I don’t even know → Continue reading ‘Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets’
Fireworks guru Aaron Beall caught wind of my Arched Text Inkscape Tutorial a few days back, pointing out that the task of arching the bottom of the text can be done in Adobe® Fireworks® (in fact, it’s even easier with Fireworks’ Distort tool). He even provided a quick walkthrough for the benefit of other Fireworks users over at FireworksGuru Forum. Continue reading ‘Arched Text: A Fireworks Command’
I ran into Phatfusion’s Multibox while looking for a way to display MOV files in a lightbox fashion. I know, there are probably better ways to do it, but I was pressed for time, and Multibox happened to be sitting in the first page of my search results, so I went with that. Continue reading ‘Multibox: Troubleshooting Checklist’
I wrote the article on Lucida Hybrid almost two years ago, as a remedy to the quirks of Lucida Grande’s less-than-perfect cousins. Since then, it has received quite a number of hits; enough to make an impact on a few stylesheets.
Also since then, things have changed drastically (within the context of the article): Lucida Sans‘ normal weight now displays correctly. Huh. Continue reading ‘Lucida Hybrid Revisited’
That’s not how you spell ‘success’.
Nevermind that neither the company (for which the ad was made) nor the printing press (that ran the ad) bothered to spell-check. If your tag line plays with the idea of spelling, please proofread.