Do you consider yourself to be a software craftsman? Do you find yourself frequently writing html? Would you feel comfortable giving a talk on Expressive...more.
When choosing typefaces, we need to be cautious. As typographers, we are responsible to our readers and to our texts, so it’s imperative that we...more.
Readability relates to those important typographic factors that are not rooted solely in the DNA of letterforms. In this realm, the typographer rejoices. For it...more.
When we judge the usability, or clarity, of a text passage, we usually do so according to two different criteria: legibility and readability. And while...more.
I recently gave a talk about web typography titled “On Web Typography: Choosing (and Using) Fonts on Screen,” at Chicago’s first annual Tech Week conference....more.
On Day two of Type Camp California we were given a short “homework” assignment: write a six word autobiography containing your name, at least one...more.
While I've been fortunate enough to attend a few great conferences during my career, I've always left wishing for a little more. Having grown tired...more.
Forms. Does anybody like filling them out? They can be annoying, maddening, time-consuming and sometimes, yes, even soul-crushing. Yet, everywhere we look on the web...more.
This blog post doubles as my proposal for a talk I’d like to give at Software Craftsmanship 2011. The working title is “Front End Craftsmanship:...more.
Last week, I wrote a brief article that demonstrated how to build a form with well structured, semantic markup. In that article, I started with...more.
In a web saturated with numerous opinion blogs, gallery showcases, tutorial sites and technical references, where should an aspiring web developer go to seek knowledge...more.
I am a trained sculptor and have always been comfortable being creative within the constraints of the three-dimensional realm. Ironically, I now find myself gainfully...more.
