Ryan Tomayko

Sweet Justice —

New JavaScript based text justification library looks promising. The default HTML/CSS text justification built into every browser has always sucked, due mostly to lack of word hyphenation.

One of the places I’d really like to have good justification is in Ronn’s HTML based man pages. It uses text-align: justify currently, but I’ve been considering making it non-justified because it’s so horribly bad. Compare it to the proper justified / hyphenated text generated by groff when viewing manpages in a terminal. It’s night and day.

8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs —

Measure, Leading, Quotes, Rhythm, Widows, Emphasis, Scale, and Rags. Great piece.

Typography for Lawyers —

For lawyers?!?? This site is way too useful and right to limit it to lawyers.

Minimalism Revisited Theme —

Jonas Arnfred: “This theme is a sleek and simple minimalist design for wordpress made to bring the content forward, and everything else out of view. The theme is designed with a focus on typography and effective whitespace …”

Typesites review's jon tangerine —

Nice review of the various typographic tact found at Jon Tangerine’s Pith & pulp http://jontangerine.com/

Presentational JavaScript to adjust text line-height in proportion to text column width. —

“If you can’t control the text width the next best thing you can do to compensate for an overly wide text measure is to increase the leading.” — I never considered that but it makes sense.

The problem with pixels —

“… anybody who’s ever built out a relatively complex design using ems will agree that at some point they wondered if the benefit was really worth the effort.”

Mac Fonts @ OSX-E —

Blatant license violation!

HTML Entity Character Lookup —

Oh wow. I’ve been trying to find a single page that has every unicode character on it with its hex counterpart but this is pretty fantastic.

Diavlo [demon.nl] —

Absolutely beautiful font … and free.

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid —

Yes! I’ve been doing this for a few months now with the corp. assets and I won’t go back. You can really see the text snap into a vertical rhythm when you hit it.

Most websites are crammed with small text that is a pain to read. Why? —

I’m sure I don’t know.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web —

This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I’ve been wondering about for a while now.