tags: typography

2015

November

2015 Nov 10

Necro'ing an Ancient Bitmap Font in the Bowels of Your Filesystem

Medium accidentally revives the System font from Windows 3.

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2016

June

2016 Jun 7

One Space or Two

The anti-prescriptivist part of me thinks you should be able to choose between one or two spaces. It's the prescription of either as the only correct way that's totally and utterly wrong. The Romans didn't even use spacing or punctuation for that matter or even the letters G, J, U, or W, and those guys conquered all of Europe and signficant chunks of N Africa and the Middle East, so clearly typography is a very infinitesimal concern for a burgeoning civilization ;)

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