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DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator
Noteworthy display sizes of monitors, PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches and HMDs. Link background color takes into account typical viewing distance:
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 9 posts.
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Line length | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Underlining | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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How To Scroll
Scroll-based interaction is incredibly popular for interactive storytelling . There are many compelling reasons for this, yet scrolling is surprisingly nuanced and easy to break. So here are five rules for employing scrolling effectively.
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Why xkcd-style graphs are important
For most data scientists, a toolkit like scipy/matplotlib or R becomes so familiar that it becomes almost an extension of their own mind. When fleshing out an idea, we will just open up ipython, write a few lines of code, and display the plot on the screen to get …
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Chinese Mobile UI Trends
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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Why and how to avoid hamburger menus
The issues of this pattern are now widely recognized, but what’s the real solution?