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by duopixel 15y ago
People often track too tight because it looks good when it's large type at a close distance. However, this is absolutely terrible for legibility in real life conditions where you either look at small type from close or large type from far a
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by duopixel 15y ago
Ah, that's quite clever! Upload as svg and let people kern the letters. Right now I'm using it to get people interested in my upcoming project [Method of Action]( http://method.ac/ ), an online course on design for programmers.
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by duopixel 15y ago
You should be able to deselect them by click anything else, if it doesn't work let me know what browser you're using.
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Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël(type.method.ac)
268 points by duopixel 15y ago|53 comments
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by duopixel 15y ago
I've caught myself scanning at articles from people I don't know. I try to understand the gist of it to see if it's worth reading carefully, but when it comes from writers I know and respect I'll take my time and have a pleasant read. It wo
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by duopixel 15y ago
Assuming the episode was completely real, I'd argue that he set up a creative problem that had only one posible solution. Ask any creative professional how he would make taxidermy tasteful for the general public and he will likely have to r
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by duopixel 15y ago
It's shameful to find this kind of pseudo-science on the front page of HN. Most of the article details plain old communication at work, but the author chose to paint it under dark intentions. If a salesman chooses to put on a suit, cologne
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by duopixel 15y ago
Using a downloadable theme on your product is somewhat akin to using Wordpress to program your web app. The compromises will be dictated by the CMS/Theme, instead of you being able to call the shots Say you need a tool to reorder categories
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by duopixel 15y ago
You are right, there is something more fundamental to strive for: purpose. Alignment, whitespace, hierarchy and contrast are elements of visual syntax. You internalize the rules so much that when you're designing you're not thinking about i
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by duopixel 15y ago
Some of the best designers I've had the pleasure of working with didn't know how to write HTML or CSS. The did, however, deeply understand the constraints of web design. Knowing HTML and CSS gives you a de facto understanding of the const
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by duopixel 15y ago
I'm frankly quite tired of these "here is what you should do" articles in entrepreneurship. There is no best way to do it, just better or worse strategies given a set of circumstances. It just happens that—for the most part—many web startup
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by duopixel 15y ago
Charles Eames once said that reducing the cost often makes a product more useful, if quality is not compromised. I was intrigued, but I couldn't find a tangible example of it. Now we have one: suddenly it's not stupid to stick a tablet to y
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by duopixel 15y ago
As a designer I only speak for myself because I know my view is quite different from other designers. Imagine this scenario: you bring four aliens to a table, you give them a deck of cards, and you explain the mechanics of poker (but not th
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by duopixel 15y ago
I found that developers edge out designers at predicting the results of A|B tests: http://method.ac/blog/design/devepers-designers-results.html
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Are developers better at predicting design outcomes?(method.ac)
1 points by duopixel 15y ago|0 comments
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by duopixel 15y ago
Say you draw a venn diagram with three intersecting circles: 1. People with technical web expertise 2. People with deep domain knowledge 3. People willing to deal with bureaucracy You will get a very tiny population. Wikipedia wasn't always
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by duopixel 15y ago
In any human endeavor there's an execution component that scientists tend to overlook. You can't just form study groups and expect everyone to excel. The details add up and you end up with a successful program. The original article states t
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The racial performance gap explained(method.ac)
84 points by duopixel 15y ago|33 comments
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Font hinting (making on-screen fonts legible)(typotheque.com)
3 points by duopixel 15y ago|0 comments
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by duopixel 15y ago
Here is a comprehensive article on font hinting by Peter Biľak a very respected Typographer: http://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting "[font-face] also raises new issues, including poor onscreen display of non-hinted fonts. And because
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by duopixel 15y ago
Helvetica on Windows is terrible, see https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/issues/42 . This is because Helvetica comes from Linotype instead of Microsoft, and they care more about print than screens. Arial might not be a good ty
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by duopixel 15y ago
There's a second problem that's popping up lately: font-face on the body text. System fonts have been painstakingly hinted to make them more readable on-screen. Most web-embeddable fonts don't have appropriate hinting or are just plain bad
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by duopixel 15y ago
I've had very bad experiences with these types of organizations. I once visited an institute for blind people and I had the chance to see them using the computer lab. I was moved by the scene: all these eager young people hungry for learnin
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by duopixel 15y ago
Taking a look at Google's data set would sure settle a lot of arguments: 1. Does age matter? 2. How important it is to be in Silicon Valley? 3. Are biz devs really important? 4. Are cofounders really important?
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by duopixel 15y ago
Please please remove the clouds, they detract from the reading experience. What I'd really like to see from the Open Source Community is a Fireworks alternative. It has just the right blend between bitmap and vector editing in a speedy ligh
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by duopixel 15y ago
I'm a Dual Citizen of Mexico and Canada. Canada has agreements with 25 countries that allow you to work for a year in a foreign country for one year if you are under 35: http://www.international.gc.ca/iyp-pij/agreements_in-accords... I'm
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by duopixel 15y ago
Well, there's also the issue of working in a foreign country legally. I wish it weren't so much of a hurdle. I've worked in three different countries, not much by any measure, but enough to gain some insights: 1. Your social value goes down
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by duopixel 15y ago
There are plenty of co-working spaces in NYC, I'm sure if you get in touch the would be thrilled to lend you a teaching space in exchange for easy access to the course. http://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/16583629/CoworkingNewYorkC...
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by duopixel 15y ago
Sponge learning is awesome, but you must always remember to act upon it. Knowing that CoffeeScript is hot in the web dev scene is great, but in the end it amounts to little more than industry gossip. True understanding comes from actually t
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by duopixel 15y ago
37signals blog (Signal vs Noise) precedes Basecamp by a couple of years, their first post is from December 2002, http://37signals.com/svn/archives/000001.php . It was a pretty popular blog by the time they launched Basecamp. Joel on Softwa

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