Christopher Pfiffner

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Twitter refugee. Seeking out new music (+ sometimes films).

We are excited to announce the publication of Mary Dyson’s book

đź“” Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading

in a new, digital edition, in English and Spanish.

🚀 https://legible-typography.com

One cannot overstate the importance of its publication online. I believe it will have a profound impact on web typography and typographic discourse online, but it would be just as fine if you find it useful for your thinking, practice, or research.

Legibility

Understanding the important role of typography in reading is a key subject that designers should know and learn about. Design for reading is an enormous responsibility that we should face and resolve correctly. In these pages you will find an explanation of how one reads, the movement of our eyes when we read, how we recognize words. You will find excellent material of a diverse nature and complexity that will help understand the basic princi- ples of typography, wrong ideas and practices that are common in the profession, and advanced concepts of reading on the screen supported by scientific research. The mastery detail of how to regard type is fully developed by Mary C. Dyson who has devoted her academic life to searching for answers and convey designers of her findings.

How the Art of Patrick Nagel, Still Seen in Nail Salons Today, Crystallized the 1980s Aesthetic

https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/how-the-art-of-patrick-nagel-still-seen-in-nail-salons-today-crystallized-the-1980s-aesthetic.html

How the Art of Patrick Nagel, Still Seen in Nail Salons Today, Crystallized the 1980s Aesthetic

To find a visual definition of the nineteen-eighties, you need look no further than the windows of the nearest run-down hair or nail salon.

Open Culture

@typographica I was surprised too! You can’t find it in Adobe software though – mr @tiro_j told me it’s because the bundled Helvetica Neue is an AAT font.

My guess is that Apple added these when they used it for iOS/Mac OS. The round colon is lifted, like something you would do for the clock.app.

In CSS “aalt” seems to be the only way to turn round punct on.

RT @TerribleMaps
8 ways to divide France

Turns out #SVB's CEO was one of the guys whispering in the Fed's ear to manufacture a recession— and cost tech workers their jobs. Now, he's out as one of the executives at the San Francisco Fed Board. #Karma

h/t @heidilifeldman

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ceo-failed-silicon-valley-bank-no-longer-director-sf-fed-2023-03-10/

CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank no longer a director at SF Fed

The chief executive officer of failed Silicon Valley Bank, Greg Becker, is no longer on the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Reuters
Best Venn diagram ever

The Shuttered Room (1967) is a Lovecraftian horror film and they're surprisingly rare. It might not be pure Lovecraftian horror but it at least manages a somewhat Lovecraftian feel, and it's thoroughly enjoyable, stylish and creepy.

Oliver Reed is one of the stars - always a plus. And he plays a wild rather crazed young man.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-shuttered-room-1967.html

#OliverReed #CarolLynley #horrormovies #classichorror #cultmovies #cultmovie #60smovies #hplovecraft #AugustDerleth #lovecraft

The Shuttered Room (1967)

The Shuttered Room is a 1967 horror movie set in America but shot in England. It’s one of those 1960s British films made partly with Americ...

Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, 8K HDMI, and More https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/17/apple-announces-m2-pro-macbook-pro/
Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, 8K HDMI, Wi-Fi 6E, and...

Apple today announced the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, up to 96GB of unified memory, support...

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How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting

For several years, Walgreens and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business. These dramatic claims generated a nationwide media frenzy. Now, Walgreens is quietly

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Breton—a great white shark who summers in Nova Scotia—drew an incredible self portrait in his travels over the last year. Could sharks be self-aware artists?

#sharksofmastodon #sharkAwareness #NovaSkotia #ocean #art