Eduard Hoffmann’s notebook documents the birth and early development of Neue Haas Grotesk and Helvetica. On this page from May 7th, 1957, he noted: “All characters: should be OK now”. The Birth of a Giant Neue Haas Grotesk’s original development in the 1950s is a story of collaboration and creative…

June 1, 2012 , by Responsive Typography: The Basics When we built websites we usually started by defining the body text. The body text definition dictates how wide your main column is, the rest used to follow almost by itself. Used to. Until recently, screen resolution was more or less homogeneous.…

One of the many joys of Infinite Jest, made possible because of its tremendous length, is its massive cast of characters. The deeper you go, the more characters you encounter and, as you go even deeper, the intersecting lines between the characters become apparent. Just take a look at this diagram.…

Ever wondered why the spokes appear to bend in a sprint finish when you see the photo finish image from a race? Are the riders going so fast that they flex the spokes? Or is something else at work? Wednesday’s stage in the Tour of Turkey saw Mark Renshaw of Rabobank beat Matthew Goss by 0.008…

A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel Yesterday John Gruber wrote about the upped pixel density in the upcoming iPhone (960x640 instead of 480x320), and why Apple did this. He also wondered what the consequences for web developers would be. Now I happen to be deeply engaged in cross-browser research…

Books are digital. This is not, strictly speaking, true; but it’s about to be, with a few honorable exceptions. Already today, pretty much all commercial books are produced digitally, although the end product is a physical one: ink printed on paper, then bound and marketed and sold. Already, the…

CYCLING Why the Alberto Contador ruling is a consequence of cycling’s past >> Some of this will not be new to seasoned followers of cycling and anti-doping legislation but it perhaps demonstrates that those seizing on individual details from the Alberto Contador ruling are missing the bigger picture…

Matt Rendell reviews some of the highlights of the judgment, published on Monday 6th February by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, banning Alberto Contador for two years: There's a paradox at the heart of cycling, one every fan understands: in order to compete, even rivals have to cooperate, by…

Why Google Fonts aren’t really open source One of my ma­jor prompts for think­ing about the es­sen­tial qual­i­ties of open source has been the Google Fonts project, which claims to be a li­brary of open-source fonts. I de­sign type. I’m in­volved with open-source projects. I was in­trigued by the…

Premiere, Sept. 1996 Lost Highway article IN WHICH NOVELIST David Foster Wallace VISITS THE SET OF DAVID LYNCH'S NEWMOVIE AND FINDS THE DIRECTOR BOTH grandly admirable AND sort of nuts 1. WHAT MOVIE THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT DAVID LYNCH's Lost Highway, written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, featuring Bill…

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In a chapter on political systems in his remarkable book The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch notes that …compromises -amalgams of the policies of the contributors- have an undeservedly high reputation. Though they are certainly better than immediate violence, they are generally, as I have…

LOL Tour Program meet your guides tour scrapbook participants' testimonials A relaxed and jovial Michael Twyman reflects on his career in teaching. Michael Twyman discussing a favorite Republican inscription during the '98 Rome Tour. Michael explains the Renaissance theories behind Michelangelo's…

Yesterday, Amazon released information that with the introduction of the Kindle Fire tablet they will also switch to a new eBook format. Anyone who will check out the quick overview will certainly be pleased and also notice that with the upcoming KF8 eBook format, Amazon seems to have addressed…

As we rolled off the start line in Beijing, my legs ached from flying half way across the world, or from fatigue, or both. In early October, after eight months of racing, training and travel, I was worn out along with rest of the peloton. The nervous energy that sparks the barrage of attacks for the…

‘Here are all the documents I used, you go through them,’” Spiegelman tells Chute. “‘And here’s a twelve-foot shelf of works to give these documents context, and here’s like thousands of hours of tape recordings, and here’s a bunch of photographs to look at. Now, go make yourself a Maus!’”

The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form. The electronic book is the latest example of how HTML continues to win out over competing, often…