Archive for the 'Typography' Category

Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets

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’

Arched Text: A Fireworks Command

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’

Lucida Hybrid Revisited

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’

Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial

Sixthings Arched Text

This tutorial shows you how to create a baseline arch on a block of text and add some basic treatments to it, using open source vector graphics editor Inkscape. Basic knowledge of Inkscape is recommended. Continue reading ‘Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial’

Are Vista Fonts Ready for the Web?

Windows Vista™ ushered in a new set of screen-optimized typefaces, touted as successors to the Core Web fonts we’ve all become accustomed to. Already, we’ve seen early adopters and trendsetters updating their font-familys to prioritize the newer fonts (Calibri, Cambria, and Segoe UI being current favorites).

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