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Over the past couple of months, I’ve been hacking together some CSS3 tests . I did this to try to figure out what should be included in the upcoming fourth edition of the CSS Pocket Reference (and thereafter CSS: The Definitive Guide ) and didn’t plan to do anything public with them, but at this point, I figure what the heck. Maybe they’ll be of interest to others. I was especially interested by the results for list-style-type , where I found some small spots of support for various types in various browsers. In contrast, WebKit supports most of the CSS3 types, so far as I can tell, though in my install several types were apparently mangled by a lack of appropriate fonts. … Read the rest here

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I wrote an article about creating an animated, image-free button with CSS3 and Typekit type and it’s been published today over at the Typekit Blog . Thanks to Mandy Brown for coordinating and editing it. In a way, the article is an extension to a lot of the stuff I talk about in CSS3 For Web Designers : using the experience layer as a place to fully embrace the pieces of CSS3 that have decent support today amongst modern browsers. Buttons are a perfect place to experiment that way—and embedded type makes them all the better, while remaining flexible. … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

In 1884 Thomas Marks opened his first market stall in Leeds. Over the next few years he opened 20 other stalls around the UK. In 1894, Thomas Spencer invested in the business and retail chain Marks & Spencer was born. From it’s humble beginnings M&S —as it was colloquially called—became one of the UK’ s biggest success stories and was the first retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over £1 billion. Companies like WH Smith, Woolworth’s and AMSTRAD all started the same way, so it would seem that in order to make it big, you should start small. Can the same thing be said of the Web… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Typefaces of the World Poster : The second poster by Shelby White that I’ve linked up this week. Keep it up, Shelby, and I’ll keep pressing the post button as often as needed. … Read the rest here

Mezzoblue Go to the source

If you’re not aware of it yet, HTML5 boilerplate is a fantastic starting point when creating a new site with its namesake markup language. But where Boilerplate focuses on basic document setup, external files, scripts, and bug fixes, it strikes me that it doesn’t do much hand-holding when it comes to basic document semantic patterns. As I’ve been working more and more HTML5 into my projects, I’m noticing a common template emerging. I’m sharing this as a minimum viable starting point since I’m still getting comfortable with the new semantics myself. Combined with Boilerplate, I’m feeling more and more confident that I’m beginning to use HTML5 properly. Don’t consider it canonical by any means, there’s likely a lot of room for improvement and it’s most certainly wrong in places… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

As I dig into the nooks and crannies of the various CSS3 modules, I’ve come across something that seems like I should be able to do, but I can’t make it work in browsers. Now, I know as well as anyone that if you try to do something and browsers won’t do it, it might well be the fault of the browsers. Particularly if you can get various browsers to fail differently on the same declaration, as I have. But this is, bizarrely, complicated enough that it’s hard to be sure if it’s me or them. So allow me to pose this to you as a challenge. Given the following ideal rendering, how would you arrive at the depicted result using the single 5-pixel-by-5-pixel image shown within the content? … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Frank Chimero on the 13” MacBook Air : Frank gave up his 27” iMac in favor of the 13” Air and no external display. Here’s his reasoning: A person only flails around in regards to their rig when they don’t have a clear idea of what constitutes their work. Suitability and fit is paramount, and one is never going to find what they’re looking for if they don’t know what they need. So, I looked at my work, I watched how I used my computer for a day, and found out all I do is draw vector shapes, surf the web, listen to music, and bash words out in plain text. That’s hardly the type of activity that requires computational brute force, though I understand there are some of you out there that require just that. Not me though. … Read the rest here

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I don’t know who’s more surprised, me or you, but here it is: episode 2 of the clagTunes podcast. Thanks to a Christmas present of a Snowball microphone there will be more episodes to come. Visit the clagTunes page for full subscription details, or click one of these links (thanks Huffduffer ): RSS Via iTunes The afore-mentioned microphone was thanks my bro who also records a podcast – an excellent half hour of music on behalf of his barista (how noomeeja is that?). Episode 2 And so to the details of Episode 2. Here’s the track listing: Am I Just a Man by Steve Mason from Boys Outside Qwerty Finger by Everything Everything from Man Alive 9/11 by Delta Spirit from History from Below On the Wheel by Curve from Blackerthreetracker Chase Scene by Broken Social Scene from Forgiveness Rock Record And here’s the download link: Episode 2 (34.1 Mb) Read or add comments … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Typefaces for Dyslexia : Ian Litterick, an assistive technology specialist (from what I can tell): Serif fonts, with their

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Type City Cleveland : Started in 2007 by Chris Ramsay, adjunct professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art. His communication design students have submitted designs each year since. They

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Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements : Josh Duck put together a nicely designed table showing the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements. Bonus: Enter the URL for any site to see which elements are used, such as colosseotype.com . … Read the rest here

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One of the things I

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Despeinada : A lovely new typeface by Ricardo Rousselot. Despeinada means

Hicksdesign Go to the source

The Boxee Box launch party happened in NYC last night, and with it, was the first look at the Boxee 1.0 software. When Boxee first appeared in alpha, this is what it looked like: It was OK, but I wasn’t a big fan of its aesthetics. However, early this year they unveiled the Boxee Beta interface, with IA work by Whitney Hess . I was won over. It had warmth, atmosphere and character. The main navigation icons were really well done, and gone was the quirky typeface that didn’t have big screen impact. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

I’m not usually the type of person to talk about who I follow or why I follow someone on a social network. And yet, here I am writing a blog post about it. Okay then… I’ve always liked Twitter . I like it’s simplicity. I also like that there’s the ability to do a one-way association by following somebody without requiring a reciprocal association… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Coquette : If you

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Know Your Type: Baskerville : Part of a series of posts on idsgn , this one guest authored by Cheryl Yau. Previous posts cover Cheltenham , Gill Sans , Clarendon , Gotham , Futura , Verlag , and DIN . … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish : I seem to be on a kick today quoting myself and others, so bear with me. Eric Karjaluoto

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How Media Changes Politics : Seth Godin: When attention is scarce and there are many choices, media costs something other than money. It costs interesting. If you are angry or remarkable or an outlier, you

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This short piece was shot and assembled last week during my first proper visit to Brooklyn