How we used to sell tires.
How we used to sell natural gas.
How we used to sell furnaces.

From the Provincial Archives of Alberta on Flickr Commons

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alberta_archives/albums/72177720317681018/

#Photography #brands

I made a big upgrade to my little `font-size-adjust` tool. You can now upload a font, configure some variable axes if needed, and it will spit out the values you'd need for `ex-height`, `cap-height` or `ch-width`.

https://clagnut.com/sandbox/font-size-adjust-ex.html

#css #typography

It's something that most people don't consider - and shouldn't have to, really. How does a new currency symbol end up supported by every computer and phone in the world?

The process to ensure our text communications interchange consistently now and for decades (and centuries?) to come isn't taken lightly by anyone at Unicode.

And the fact that it is so human-dependant, is what also makes it interesting. https://blog.unicode.org/2026/02/from-central-bank-to-code-point-roadmap.html

It's been almost ten years since Sonja sent out the first issue of the Kirby Kosmos Newsletter. Today, we are celebrating 100 issues full of incredible resources around Kirby and the web.

If you don't want to miss our anniversary edition, subscribe before 3 pm CET: https://getkirby.com/kosmos.

Here's to the next 100! 🥂

Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19981205071558/http://product.info.apple.com:80/pr/press.releases/1996/q2/960314.pr.rel.msgpad130.html