Posts Tagged ‘typography’
Hawaiian diacriticals
Posted Sunday, February 22nd, 2009.
Filed under General, web design with the tags backtick, Hawaiian diacriticals, macron, okina, punctuation, typography, web design
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 with the tags typography
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 [...]