As I have remarked before, good typography does not merely have aesthetic virtue. Importantly, it has cognitive virtue as well. Good typesetting makes your work easier to understand. A good font is but one element of typesetting, and a font may be appropriate to one context but not others. Still, font choice is one of […]
While on matters typographical, I thought I would continue the monospaced font roundup with Aurulent Sans Mono a free (as in speech and beer) monospace font by Stephen G. Hartke. Available under the Open Font License, Aurulent Sans Mono is a humanist sans serif that comes in italic, bold, and bold italic variants (no slashed […]
Continuing the series of posts on monospace fonts, we consider the question “Do androids dream in monospace fonts?” Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation has designed the Droid Typeface Family for the Open Handest Alliance’s Android platform. Released under the Apache license, Droid Sans Mono is an attractive monospace font. It is not without its limitations, […]
I have been planning a follow up to my previous post about monospace fonts. This is not the planned follow up. However, background reserarch has uncovered an interesting monospace font with special properties. DPCustomMono2, commissioned by Distributed Proofreaders, is designed to maximize the legibility of text for the purposes of proofreading. Given the special context, […]
Based on the sans serif typeface Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica was designed by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry (later assimilated by Linotype). Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, its name was updated to Helvetica apparently derived from the latin name for Switzerland—Helvetia. Caught up in an enthusiasm for Swiss modernist […]
I am a theme whore. Not only have I downloaded all the themes on the TextMate Wiki, I have tried my hand at making my own. Switching between themes helps cut down the eye-strain, and some are better suited to different ambient lighting conditions than others. But there is more to this inconstancy. Though irrational, […]
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