Posts Tagged ‘typography’
Floundering in fonts
How do graphic designers do it? I’m working on a new logo, for personal rather than business use. Or rather, Zoë Shuttleworth of Rude Goose is working on it, and I’m no doubt driving her round the bend with my contradictory input. This probably sounds like a vanity project but there’s a motivational reason behind […]
Filed under: Language, Life and work and everything else | 6 Comments
Tags: Architecture and Design, fonts, graphic design, Life and work, logos, typography
Keyboard shortcuts are a great timesaver when you’re spending hours typing away on your computer. I’ve just learned a couple of new ones, for inserting smart (curly) quotes in text where autoformat functions, such as Word’s, don’t work, and for doing the opposite: inserting straight quotes when you’re working in AutoFormat mode. I discovered these tips […]
Filed under: Language, Writing | 5 Comments
Tags: keyboard shortcuts, Language, prime marks, punctuation, quote marks, typography, Writing
My post on Tuesday (26 October) was about how to type an ellipsis; this one goes into a wee bit more detail about when you should do so. I’ve lifted the following straight from Wikipedia, mainly to save time but also because I love the following phrase: “the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of […]
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Tags: ellipsis, grammar, Language, punctuation, typography, Writing
Here’s a quick tip that comes in handy for computer-typing in general and Twitter in particular (it saves you two characters). When you’re typing an ellipsis (three dots indicating an omission), instead of typing all three dots, type it as a single character by using the following keyboard shortcuts: Mac OS ellipsis: OPTION + semicolon […]
Filed under: Writing | 3 Comments
Tags: ellipsis, keyboard shortcuts, punctuation, Robin Williams, Twitter, typography, Writing
Internet gems
ne of the things I love about the Internet is the way it lets people share their enthusiasm for and knowledge of their own niche subjects. Subjects that you may never have given a second (or even a first) thought to but when you discover them are a delight. Here are some examples: The Daily […]
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Tags: ampersands, drop capitals, etegami, history, Japanese prints, lawyers, Life and work, typography, Web
Words to good effect 