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Fluid identities foster progressive societies?

I’m under­tak­ing an intro­duc­tory course into gender studies for one my classes in my ‘arts’ (read human­i­ties) degree. Largely the reading thus far has focused on the terms of the dis­ci­pline and some of the waging debates, but there are a few sec­tions that dive some­what deeper and develop some inter­est­ing ideas. I came across the fol­low­ing read more..

Open Baskerville

“Letters and fonts have two char­ac­ter­is­tics: On the one hand they are basic ele­ments of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and fun­da­men­tal to our culture, on the other hand they are cul­tural goods and an artis­tic work. You are able to see just the first aspect, but when it comes to soft­ware you’ll see copy­rights and patents even on read more..

Meme: Reflections 2008

Copying Nathanael who stole if from Fiona, here’s a quick rundown of 2008, ques­tion and answer style: Q: What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? A: Left the country and moved over­seas for half a year back to Germany to touch up my German, started free­lanc­ing prop­erly, co-(un)organised Canberra’s very first BarCamp. Q: Did you keep read more..

Evaluating fonts: kerning

There are thou­sands of fonts avail­able and iden­ti­fy­ing the cream of the crop is not just an exer­cise of picking the most aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing. I con­stantly drool over new type­faces I come across; there’s usually a weekly dosage of five to ten that catch my eye, thanks of course to sites like I Love Typog​ra​phy.com. read more..

Web fonts: the death of type foundries?

In the spirit of Hal­loween Jon Tan covered the ominous topic of @font-face linking in a com­pre­hen­sive article on his beau­ti­ful website. I’ve kept the imple­men­ta­tion example to a minimum because it’s well covered by Jon, other web­sites, and the W3C. Instead, I wanted to voice my thoughts on the strug­gle between type foundries and design­ers. Feel read more..

Whose Garamond is it anyway?

Flick through various foundry cat­a­logs for a Gara­mond revival or adap­tion and you’re bound to dis­cover more than garalde type­faces. Inter­spersed amongst the many Gara­monds you’ll find erro­neously titled baroque faces works by another type designer, Jean Jannon. I decided to inves­ti­gate the affair and while doing so swept the dust off a little history read more..

Times italic sorts

I’m still alive, just playing with sorts, that’s all.

Articles in limbo and ALA web survey

Whose Garamond is it anyway? If you flick through various foundry cat­a­logs for a Gara­mond revival or adap­tion, you’re prob­a­bly bound to dis­cover more than garalde type­faces. Inter­spersed amongst the many Gara­monds by Claude Gara­mond (or Gara­mont) you’ll find baroque faces works by another type designer, Jean Jannon… I wanted to cover this little typo­graphic affair but quickly found read more..

LugRadio Live and Silverback

Yesterday’s entry regard­ing the great Aus­tralian Fire­wall was prob­a­bly less inter­est­ing for anyone outside of Aus­tralia. The post was the result of a quick letter of concern that needed writing and con­se­quently pub­lish­ing (it’ll prob­a­bly do more good online than in the inbox of the Min­is­ter I sent it to). That out of the way, read more..

Internet content filtering: outdated remedies applied to modern issues

Part of the hot-​air during the Aus­tralian 2007 Federal Elec­tions was the issue of Inter­net content fil­ter­ing, which I waved off as just what I thought it was—hot-air—designed to impress and hope­fully secure votes. The idea was shot down then and quickly was left alone … until now. Ashley Kyd drew this to my atten­tion read more..