Posts tagged ‘typography’
Hawaiian diacriticals
Posted Sunday, February 22nd, 2009.
Filed under General, web design and development with the tags backtick, Hawaiian diacriticals, How-to, macron, okina, opinion, punctuation, typography, web design and development
This brings me to one of my pet peeves and the purpose of this post: misuse of the backtick (`) character. Many of the afore-mentioned well-intentioned folks mistakenly use a backtick to represent an ‘okina, and it drives me absolutely bonkers.
The Fonthead
Posted Friday, February 17th, 2006.
Filed under General, web design and development with the tags How-to, typography, web design and development
My brother recently sent me a link to a webpage with free font downloads. This tickled my on-again off-again love affair with typography, and triggered me to post a quickie blog about the subject. The more intricate details of typography (kerning, leading, metrics and the like) seem as obscure as ever to the everday computer [...]