Entries tagged with “fonts” from Manufactured Environments
A book for the technical typographer
There seems to be a divide between the worlds on traditional and digital typography. If you're interested in the former, you'll read Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style. There are a couple of approaches to computer typography. You...
Tags: books · encoding · fonts · o'reilly · yannis haralambous
Posted by Daniel Stout on October 8, 2007 10:36 PM · Permalink
Authors and their fonts
Slate has a fun little piece entitled My Favorite Font: Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal what font they compose in and why. They ask a bunch of authors what their favorite font for composing is and...
Tags: authors · courier · courier new · fonts · slate · typewriters
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 29, 2007 8:34 AM · Permalink
The best of all possible fonts: Subpixel hinting on openSUSE
As an openSUSE Linux user and a budding typographer, I'm always interested in ways to make screen-rendered text more legible. You may have a similar obsession with the clarity of text. Or maybe I'm the only person this side of...
Tags: fonts · freetype2 · gnome · kde · linux · opensuse · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2007 7:47 PM · Permalink
Linux is Beautiful, or Why Robert Scoble Needs to Take Another Look
Robert Scoble wrote an entry about what he sees as a reason Linux won't be adopted by the masses as their desktop operating system: the fonts. I couldn't disagree more with him. I'm looking at Gnome via SUSE Linux 10.1...
Tags: fonts · gnome · linux · microsoft · open source · open suse · robert scoble · scoble · suse · suse linux · typography · vista · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 19, 2006 1:06 AM · Permalink
Good things come in threes: Tweaking always
Manufactured Environments is an active, living site. I'm often looking for better and newer ways to code things on the site. I made three tweaks to the site today that I wanted to give you the lowdown (down low?) on....
Tags: archives · fonts · linux · rss · suse linux · tags · technorati
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 22, 2006 6:36 PM · Permalink
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