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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 113 posts.
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Ubuntu - Getting physical
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
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Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career
Eric Gill, Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger are names we associate with the classic typefaces designers use on a daily basis. Their font creations are timeless designs that look right at home no matter what century we’re in. This collection of 25 classic fonts is a round up of the best and most popular fonts […]
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Edward Tufte: Sparklines: theory and practice
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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The Science of Word Recognition
Reviews the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model.
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
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Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
Programming, creative coding, tutorials by Keith Peters
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Design For Hackers: Why You Don't Use Garamond on The Web
Garamond is widely considered one of the greatest fonts ever made. But the things that make Garamond so beautiful also make it a problem.
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How to pick a company name
Every founder struggles to find a great name for her company; I sure did! In some ways it's important to pick a good name, but in my experience a lot of it isn't as important as some people would have you believe.
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Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies
Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie.
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Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet
If you're using a modern web browser, chances are you've got a few tabs open at the same time. Most certainly, there are too many of them. Is fine because
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Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?
LilyPond – Music notation for everyone
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Fluid Layout from Hicksdesign
Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.
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Mensch -- A coding font
The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are…
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