Stralis

Spring breaks forth in its silent three-month-long shout for joy.
Here's a project that's been teaching me about the Cyrillic alphabet and drawing in context of a type system. It's called Stralis.

Vertical rhythm on the web

Pictured above is a working prototype that makes reading articles and longer works on the internet more like reading a book. Its content (the entire article, or chapter, or book) is loaded from a database and the front end presents it as pages in a spread.
This started out as an experiment using baseline grids on the web; then on-screen readability. Over the past couple holed-up weeks here at home I dirtied my hands on the emergent technologies of the new internet, specifically HTML5's canvas element, CSS3, javascript libraries such as Mootools and jQuery, and RSS.

Getting ready for TypeCon

I'm having fun getting into script lettering. Does anyone know who's leading the workshop/hands-on talk at TypeCon this year?

Words matter.

I've been giving some thought to our treasury's decision to bail out some large failed banks and all the attention it's getting lately and I've come to these conclusions:
Everyone categorizes our options as being these two: namely bail the suckers out or do nothing and suffer through a recession.
Since I'm from the Austrian school of economics, I see it like this: to bail out is to do nothing. That is to say, it does nothing to address the problem that caused the artificial boom. The reason we're in a 'crisis' at this point is because economic law, as it tends to always do, is now proposing an actual, feasible solution: the liquidation of bad debt.

Pullchain's over—if you want it.

Available immediately for download here at FontShop (FontStruct account required).

Lesson learned: Don't fight the format.

The Pullchain project

Setting aside my text face for just a moment—this was fun.
FontStruct is decidedly as easy as it looks.

Thank you FontShop for producing FontStruct.

Digital work begins on this text face.

At Typecon

Not much time to say this: What a great past couple of days! The conference has been excellent, and the best part has been running into people I've heard about and whose work I've seen. Also, I got Nick Shinn's book on modern type. Thanks Nick.

Guess who's coming to Typecon

Sidney Poitier? Maybe; that's beside the point. Me! I'm coming.
It will be my first. Any suggestions on what I should bring? Anything you wish you had brought to your first typecon?

Redraw

I'm learning Fontlab at home. It's no 'hello world' but it's mine. Michael from Richmond will note the way the counters show the reader a little more respect.