Ben Dunkle

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  • Futura vs. Verdana

    OK all you typography snobs out there, up in arms over Ikea’s recent switch to Verdana (google ikea verdana), ask yourselves: If you had one store to shop for all of your furniture, what would it be? Ikea, right.
    If you had one font to use on everything you designed, what would it be? Well, you basically have to choose a web-safe, sans-serif font to maximize utility, so here are your choices:
    Arial
    Tahoma
    Verdana
    Trebuchet MS
    Lucida

    Personally, I’da gone with Lucida, but Verdana’s as good as any.

  • Bang Bang You're Dead

    I want this book:
    http://bit.ly/2dwULc
    The kids basically maul each other in a war. This would make such a better movie than “Where the Wild Things Are”.

  • Things are better for my kids

    A theme you hear is how parents want to make sure their kids have all the things they didn’t. I don’t get that. I had everything; my parents gave us lots of toys and good food and everything. Maybe it was being a child of the 70s/80s, when things were pretty plentiful.

    Today I was proud to see my kid Grif riding his bike with his helmet on, while his friends went bare-brained. Growing up, I never wore a helmet, and I rode my bike everywhere. Most of what my kids have I had too, but at least they’re a little wiser.

  • Textwrangler 3 released

    My favorite text editor just got updated. Woopee!

  • The BBPress icons

    Here’s some recent icons done for BBPress:

    bbpress_icons_32

  • Gallery 3 icons

    I’ve been working on icons for the upcoming release of Gallery 3 (http://gallery.menalto.com/). Here they are:

    gallery_icons

  • A good beach day

    Well there’s nothing like spending a 90º summer afternoon in a cool lake with your three kids, all under the age of 12 mind you (that’s key), wrestling and throwing them around in the waves, with high winds whipping up one-footers. Of course it ain’t the Atlantic, but whatryagonnado. We followed it up with some Pad Thai a-la-cart which I’ll post recipe for asap. Altogether an epic day!