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		<title>Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2009/05/29/twitter-sleuthing-too-many-poets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 04:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[thepoet: Who is this @JasmineTiy and why is he/her/it they keep on spamming @thepoet in their twit. I don&#8217;t even know what they are saying. &#8594;
JasmineTiy: How comes there&#8217;s 2 @thepoet iz dat even possible &#8594;
thepoet: @twitter f*d up big time on the username. there&#8217;s two @thepoet @thePOET so that&#8217;s why i&#8217;m getting all these [...]

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		<title>Arched Text: A Fireworks Command</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2009/03/27/arched-text-a-fireworks-command/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#174; Fireworks&#174; (in fact, it&#8217;s even easier with Fireworks&#8217; Distort tool). He even provided a quick walkthrough for the benefit of other Fireworks [...]

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		<title>Lucida Hybrid Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2009/02/18/lucida-hybrid-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the article on Lucida Hybrid almost two years ago, as a remedy to the quirks of Lucida Grande&#8217;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&#8216; [...]

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		<title>Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2008/11/11/arched-text-an-inkscape-tutorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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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. 
Part I: Arching the Text
Once you&#8217;ve fired up Inkscape, create a new canvas and use the Text tool (F8) to [...]

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		<title>Are Vista Fonts Ready for the Web?</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2008/04/01/are-vista-fonts-ready-for-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows Vista&#8482; ushered in a new set of screen-optimized typefaces, touted as successors to the Core Web fonts we&#8217;ve all become accustomed to. Already, we&#8217;ve seen early adopters and trendsetters updating their font-familys to prioritize the newer fonts (Calibri, Cambria, and Segoe UI being current favorites).
It&#8217;s been over a year (I know, a little too [...]

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		<title>Lucida Hybrid: The &#8216;Grande&#8217; Alternative</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucida Grande is such a nice font to use in websites, but because it doesn&#8217;t come standard with Windows, we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to make sure users get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. Oh, dear.

Update 2007-03-13: Check out my comment [...]

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		<title>Simple Relative Font Size Equation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you working with relative font-sizes in your CSS, here is a basic equation for getting the exact size equivalent in ems, given a desired px value:
emr = pxt &#247; pxp, where&#160;emr = result font size, in ems;pxt = target font size, in px;pxp = parent element&#8217;s font size, in px;

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		<title>(There Is Hardship) Beyond Arial &amp; Verdana</title>
		<link>http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2006/09/26/there-is-hardship-beyond-arial-verdana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of several recent projects, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with some alternatives to the usual cast of web fonts (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, etc.). I know this is nothing new, as countless other designers have had other fonts grace their designs. While the results of my experiments often prove less than successful, I proceed to [...]

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		<title>Rapid Fire #3: Quick &#8216;N Dirty Outlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brownspank</dc:creator>
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In this edition of Rapid Fire, we&#8217;ll be making use of a particular design resource in a not-so-conventional manner. Utilizing readily-available corroded fonts, we can achieve a marker- or chalk-stroke effect with which to frame or emphasize our design elements in Adobe&#174; Fireworks&#174;.

Prepare Your Fontface
To start, obtain a fontface that has corroded edges. For this [...]

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