{"id":15472,"date":"2007-05-15T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/web-type-that-doesnt-suck-historic-typography-more.html"},"modified":"2007-05-15T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T15:59:21","slug":"web_type_that_doesnt_suck_historic_typogra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/web_type_that_doesnt_suck_historic_typogra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Web type that doesn&#039;t suck, Historic typography, &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Beautiful type specimen books from the 1920&#8217;s appear in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/17208860%40N00\/sets\/690970\/detail\/\">Flickr photo set<\/a>. [<a href=\"feed:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/hicksdesign\/sidenotes\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Tiny type&#8211;from cuneiform tablets to spies&#8217; microdots&#8211;is on display in Cabinet Magazine&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/25\/foer.php\">A Minor History of Miniature Writing<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/really_small_writing_6242.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Michael Bierut offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/025212.html\">Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface<\/a>, naming various ways to choose the right font. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/05\/13412.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Aiming to make Web typography <a href=\"http:\/\/webtypography.net\/sxsw2007\/\">suck less<\/a>, Jon Hicks (designer of the Firefox logo, among other things) has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\/file_download\/31\">quick, useful primer<\/a> on Web type. He&#8217;s provided <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jonhicks\/geeknightwebtype\">related links<\/a> as well. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful type specimen books from the 1920&#8217;s appear in this Flickr photo set. [Via] Tiny type&#8211;from cuneiform tablets to spies&#8217; microdots&#8211;is on display in Cabinet Magazine&#8217;s A Minor History of Miniature Writing [Via] Michael Bierut offers Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface, naming various ways to choose the right font. [Via] Aiming to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}