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 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’
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’
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).