How wonderful to find out more about how this (once) wonderful app came to be ;)
origins of common UI symbols
What a beautiful find ~ thanks to Cameron Moll’s tweet ;)
In positive news, this is outstanding. The origins of common UI symbols (►, ⌘, @, etc.): https://t.co/xaVegiSJ5B (thx @chadengle)
— Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll) February 7, 2014
butterick’s practical typography
Just saw this tweet from Matthew Stibbe pointing to a wonderful online book – and more… you should have a look :)
Why Typography matters – amazing, free, online book. Read it! http://t.co/Wb0hTL7uBv
— Matthew Stibbe (@mstibbe) August 10, 2013
Tiff – a type diff tool…
Tiff
A type diff tool that visually contrasts the differences http://www.honeytraveler.com/pharmacy/ between two fonts.
This is lovely new tool to help you see the differences between 2 typefaces - ideal for fine-tuning your font stacks :)
beautiful codepoints
There was a lot of talk about punctuation marks, specifically quotes, accents and dashes. Jessica Hische announced her little guide “Quotes & Accents” and amongst the links was this lovely site “codepoints”, retweeted by @markboulton, created by @m_strehl. Definitely worth a look - beautifully put together and excellent references ;)
Finding Characters
It’s hard to find one certain character in over 110,000 codepoints. This site aims to make it as easy as possible […]This website is a private project of Manuel Strehl.
A List Apart 5.0
A new design for one of our favourite online publicattions :)
What a transformation – a new design with a fresh approach, make sure to read Jeffrey’s article for an insight into the thinking behind the redesign and to find out what’s new for ALA.
Jeffrey Zeldman:
A design that departs from our past and a platform on which to build the future. Welcome to the relaunch of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
image © Kevin Cornell 2013
launched: clearleft.com
Launching... flickr.com/photos/adactio… ...and launched: clearleft.com
— Jeremy Keith (@adactio) January 11, 2013
After a long teaching day, catching up on news and tweets - this was a nice surprise: Clearleft launch the redesign of their site. Beautiful :)
You must have a look ~ the masters at work.
Custom Types, Jackson Alves
A tweet from @opentype (Ralf Hermann) pointed towards a beautiful video of @jackdzn (Jackson Alves) promoting his workshop. What an amazing type designer… and how wonderful to see a video of his craft!
HOVER STATES
hover states ↗
New & interesting examples of movement in interaction design, curated by Chambers Judd
via Frank Chimero:
Love @hoverstates hoverstat.es Does a great job of documenting the in-betweens that make designing for the screen so challenging.
— Frank Chimero (@fchimero) November 12, 2012
Guardian tells story of American election
America: Elect! The action-packed journey to US election day in graphic novel form
Following a tweet from @cole007 - I was very impressed with this page on The Guardian's website. Though I like this scrolling effect, I have to admit that I have grown tired of it as it is often used in a similar manner, quite predictable. However, when used for story telling as in this case - I do think it works very well :)
What do you think?