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Variable Width Fonts
I know very little, way less than I should, about the new variable typography stuff that’s been gaining traction and was discussed in css-tricks’ most recent shop talk episode.
However, I’m having serious skepticism about how they can replace entire font families. There’s a lot of the discerning human eye in creating various weights (and especially italic versions) of fonts. I just can’t picture how some math algorithm can make that go away.
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Easiest Pizza Recipe Ever
Mix salt, pepper, oregano, or whatever with some olive oil and brush it on some flour tortillas.
Place face down on a baking sheet.
Spoon on tomato sauce.
Sprinkle mozzarella cheese and any other toppings.
Bake at 400º for 15 minutes or whatever.
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Life in 2024 so far
Teaching has shifted to administration
The huge migration is nearly done
My wife and kids are beautiful
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Multiple master icons
Just like fonts, icons can be designed in different weights. Here’s how it works in my current design, chubbicons:
These are all rendered at 32×32. The bold weight was designed with 1 pixel wide stroke on a 9×9 grid, while the light weight was 1 pixel on an 18×18 grid. The solid is just solid with some white 1 or 2 pixel details.
Everyone’s so big on the outlined icons, but I have a feeling solids will come back in style.
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Done with apple
I had planned on picking up a new mini for my kids once the imac g5 loaner goes back, but this puts me over the edge:
http://www.switched.com/2009/03/17/new-ipod-shuffle-only-usable-with-apple-authorized-headphones/
It seems that apple has begun the same downward spiral toward pissing off the customer base that nearly ruined Microsoft. I hope they can turn it around.
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Digital
You truly are a digital artist when you understand what a point is. I still don’t.