Been awfully bad at writing, these last few months, so I start carefully with a font-post. A sans-serif is not just a sans-serif! All the trad ones are there, with some odd ones thrown in for entertaninment. I don’t get a lot of response on the fontthing, but hey – I like it. Which one is the pretty one?
Go oooon – guess!
Not sure I’d do so well at guessing these fonts myself. I imagine I’d get about half of them right. And which one do I like the best?
It certainly is not number eight….
Go oooon – guess!
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I finally saw the much-trumpeted film. It was amusing; mainly for the characters in it – and I mean the designers, not the fontface. That helvetica is everywhere is no surprise. It is clean, bland, large, simple and good for signage. Generally.
But the designers was the funniest bits. Some of them are clearly off their rockers, and I love it. Especially Erik Spiekermann is a raving loony, a man with wit, opinions and a careless regards of others. “I am always on time, but always a year late”, he says. He despises Helvetica for having no contrast; no rhythm. He shrugs, and says bad design is everywhere.
By popular demand – haha – here is a CSS rollover tutorial.
if you want to play with my turtle, feel free to rightclick it and download the image to your own computer – I only ask that you drop me a link to your site if you use it.
click here to see the turtle doing what it is supposed to.
I start out with a single image file, with one green and one blue turtle placed directly above each other. Here is my simple .gif image on the right.