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by sings 3y ago
> I wish it could have been more science than art, but it wasn’t There is this tendency towards scientism in digital colour theory, which sticks out because I noticed myself doing it in a related project. Nothing inherently wrong with th
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by sings 3y ago
Those gymnasts remind me of some of my favourite pangrams… Bouncy squad eking prize with pelvic flexion jump. My Fox News TV quip? Big jerks add zilch! View half a dozen squid & peg just six inky crumbs.
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by sings 3y ago
The separate page on punctuation is interesting. They recommend against using curly apostrophes, although they do not give a rationale for this choice. That page doesn’t follow its own advice. It recommends against contracting “you have”, b
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by sings 3y ago
> This raster image must then be placed into vector software capable of performing a bitmap trace, such as Adobe Illustrator, or Inkscape. It seems like it doesn’t actually create a vector image by itself, which is what the title had me
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Four Fours Problem: Any Number with One Four(patternblockhead.com)
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by sings 3y ago
This online survey from UWMadison came up the other day, which estimates where you sit on the bell curve in terms of internal verbalisation. https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3NMm9yyFsNio...
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by sings 3y ago
Finnair serves blueberry/blåbär juice on its flights.
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by sings 3y ago
I definitely agree that soft hyphens are a simplistic workaround if used in the way I suggested, and are indeed inferior to a complex and well-thought out hyphenation system. Still, if someone is considering `word-wrap: break-word;` for nar
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by sings 3y ago
Sounds like a use case for soft hyphens. If you don’t mind where the words break, you could sprinkle soft hyphens through the text to get it to break more often than the default renderer would otherwise.
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Instruments for measuring length and area [video](youtube.com)
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The Southeast Asia Aid Map(seamap.lowyinstitute.org)
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Flann O’Brien Splits the Atom (1967)(laphamsquarterly.org)
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by sings 4y ago
Even for static text, line breaks (<br>) can cause unexpected results unless you check at varying viewports. Non-breaking spaces may provide a better option, depending on the specifics of the situation.
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by sings 4y ago
The image you linked to is displaying correctly. Its the large headline that is wrapped differently, not the small body text.
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by sings 4y ago
Cue Kevin McCloud from Grand Design whose standard rant about minimalism is that it’s actually the hardest to pull off because you aren’t hiding behind anything. All of your decisions are exposed, so you have to be even more thoughtful abou
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by sings 4y ago
One of Yale’s open courses has a lecture that covers The Crying of Lot 49[1]. A good place to start for anyone reading Pynchon for the first time. Gravity’s Rainbow is my personal favourite, but takes an enormous amount of work as a reader.
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by sings 4y ago
The referenced article on glanceable reading links to a paper[1] with an interesting result. It finds uppercase text is more quickly recognised than lower case text for individual words. The paper suggests customisable text settings in user
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by sings 4y ago
Me too. I have found printing to PDF from Safari instead of Chrome yields better results when I have gone through the same process. It probably depends on the source material though. If I remember correctly, the text was split into separate
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Shortlist: A daily word-finding game(s-ings.com)
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by sings 4y ago
For a slightly different approach, shown[1] will let you generate responsive SVG charts ahead of time, so no JS is needed. Useful when you have very basic chart needs. 1. https://stephenhutchings.github.io/shown/
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by sings 4y ago
Shameless plug. My set, Microns, has fewer icons but is good for starting new projects. https://www.s-ings.com/projects/microns-icon-font/ The icons are intentionally designed to not have too much personality. Les
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The Fakoo Alphabet(omniglot.com)
98 points by sings 4y ago|39 comments
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by sings 4y ago
Koyaanisqatsi, a film in a similar vein, had a profound impact on me when I first watched it in my twenties. The cinematography is also done by Ron Fricke, but it’s directed by Godfrey Reggio with a Philip Glass score.
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by sings 4y ago
Exactly. While obviously in a minority, GP should take heart in the fact there are viewers out there, myself included, that will actively avoid videos with click bait title cards. Silly facial expressions and “you won’t believe…” type text
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by sings 4y ago
> and then merged them with mix-blend-mode. In the demo, `mix-blend-mode: normal` is used. This is the default, so this line of CSS isn’t required. You can get some interesting effects if you do use one of the other blend modes with the
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List of Psychological Effects(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sings 4y ago
Personally, I think orphans are bad typography and have little to do with pixel perfection. I don’t see why responsive web design necessarily requires bad typography. Given the tools to address these issues, such as Adobes proposed `text-wr
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by sings 4y ago
You may be able to override metrics of different fonts with CSS, using ascent-override and descent-override and the local() function to target a font on the system. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&#x2F
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by sings 4y ago
I wonder whether you could work around these precision issues using the viewBox attribute, but I expect most of this software would just strip it out.
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by sings 5y ago
The worst example being media organisations. Why would you cede any remaining semblance of journalistic authority by cheaply embedding tweets into a news article. Handpicked commentary from a narrow part of the internet does not constitute

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