About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
My initial thoughts on Google offering a hosted version of Droid: This is more an extension of their mobile play than getting into the font hosting. Here’s why: The Android handsets only display the Droid family of fonts. Google’s stated a number of times they’re serious about being successful in mobile. Google is a web …
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Back in art school – I spent some time with a designer-turned-fine-artist name Eric (last name since forgotten). Aside from his crash course in contemporary fine art of the late 1990s the thing I remember most about him was his answer to my question: Why did you switch from design to fine art? He looks …
Great talk from Linda Stone on what comes after ‘continuous partial attention’. She argues that it’s filtering, engagement, discernment, and a striving for intimacy and a quality of live. “Understanding Workers” vs. “Knowledge Workers” Conversely, being tuned into the always-on, real-time stream creates a constant sense of crisis. Additionally, this constant fight-or-flight actually prevents innovation …
My mobile phone is starting to show it’s age. More sketchy connections, increased static and general inability to hear the other person on the line. All independent of who I’m talking with or whether I’m on T-Mobile’s GSM network or a WiFi network. All making me more unhappy with a device that increasingly feels like …
(NOTE: Like many of my other ongoing lists, this post is primarily for my memory – rumor is it’s the first to go with age.) I’ve been fortunate that to date – and been able to maintain a very omnivorous diet. Surpassing 35 has brought with many changes. Most notably – I now have a …
“[Luis von Ahn – inventor of the captcha] says that about 200M captchas are typed every day. He was proud of that until he realized it takes about 10 seconds to type them, so his invention is wasting 500,000 hours per day.”- David Weinberger I wonder if Samuel Segal feels similarily.
Here’s the standard complaint about using @font-face in a website: “Windows XP doesn’t seem to do anti-aliasing very well, and even with Clear Type enabled, the custom fonts can look jagged and rough.” Here’s my standard reply:
With the Fontue web font server open sourced, I’ve done the same for the workflow scripts I use to to generate the fonts for @font-face use. It’s a pair of scripts that pipe fonts in and out of other conversion programs like FontForge, sfnt2woff, Batik, and EOTFast. Along the way, doing a little clean up …
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I’ve talked to a number of people and organizations that want to start adding web fonts to their websites – but aren’t comfortable relying on a third-party service for something so integral to their online presence. With that in mind, I’m pleased to announced that Kernest‘s underlying web font serving engine – dubbed Fontue – …
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Inputing anything on the iPad more complex than – ‘I want that’ – is frustrating, even moreso with the keyboard. The thought of taking notes on the iPad during meetings is still ridiculous. And I started wondering how people quickly took notes before we all became such proficient touch typists. The idea of a single …