Text figures
Kyle Steinike added
Kirby added
A helpful guide to font families
Text is the most ubiquitous and the least user-friendly interface to information that we have. We have plots, we have graphs, we have tables. All of these are great. They are optimized for various different kinds of things for different uses.
Text is not optimized for anything at all. It's just a thing that we inherited from 3,000 years a
... See moreLinus Lee • Linus Lee Is Living With AI
sari added
shashaank added
Why were old style fonts designed with numbers offset from the baseline?
to match the height variation of running text or small case, as I understand it
The idea of using page numbers, like in paper books, didn’t appear right away. At first, it seemed to us that it was some kind of a relic of the past. But having spent few months working on the content of the book, we realized that it was just inconvenient for us to refer to typos or specific illustrations. People haven’t invented anything more sim... See more
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
Tanuj added
Basics are versioned with pricing that reflects it, consistent photos and videos of each style and color combination, a wide array of models, guidance based on actual measurements of what would fit better, subscriptions, descriptions that people actually can decipher, and size, style, color, and version all being on a single page.
Chris Frantz • Buying clothes online is still painful. Here’s what needs to change.
sari added
The whole thing is in a nutshell. Numbers, as such, are abstractions and hard to be remembered. To make them hard to forget, we translate them into words or phrases.