Quotes Archives
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…you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.
I intend to serve exactly the same Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS for all sites (give or take a little branding here, or a touch of customization there). This will pay dividends for me, reduce wastage for my clients and give end-users a well-designed, well-presented view of what they come for — content.
It’s a big day. hCards and hReviews are already published in huge quantities all over the web … but this is the biggest user-base so far to benefit from the consumption of microformats in an application.
I’m perplexed. Either a whole swathe of my peers are confusing elastic and liquid layouts or I’m missing something fundamental.
Ampersand, after all, is H&FJ’s middle name.
Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.
…something extraordinary happened at the end of 2000. My partner, Pat, was a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. She did well enough to enable me to take six months off my freelance design business to work on new fonts. During that break, I created Coquette, Anonymous, and Mostra.
Sound itself attracts — ask any eavesdropper.
Let’s not go into this next year with blind enthusiasm or crushing anxiety, but with a great sense of kinsmanship and and eager promise. Let us all work together to do what we can to grow our network into a future titan of industry. One that contributes to the community and the economy, global and local.
I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious.
The pixel will never go away entirely, but its finite universe of digital watches and winking highway signs is contracting fast. It’s likely that the pixel’s final and most enduring role will be a shabby one, serving as an out-of-touch visual cliché to connote ‘the digital age.’
I would like to use Huffduffer. I want my username to be ___________ and I want my password to be __________ . My email address is __________. By the way, my name is __________ and my website is __________ .
… we can stop waiting around for browser makers to give us what we want, thanks to their efforts on JS engines, and start using the advanced CSS we’ve been hearing about for years.
The homepage in particular uses RGBA color values to add transparency to the text so it picks up the background tone, whether it’s a solid color or an image. Even the “black” text on the homepage is slightly transparent, which gives it just a hint of the background color. It softens the contrast a bit, and it reminds me of the effect when I used to overprint colors in print design.
Duct Tape is a business tool. It’s not one that anyone wants to use but it’s there for when perfection has run it’s course and it’s time to move on to other pursuits. Purity has no duct tape—only devotion.
Why a magazine? Because we didn’t hear the music we wanted on the radio.
An exercise in documenting words in the music I listen to with color and type. The constraints are simple: (1) Only use Georgia (serif) or Helvetica (sans) and (2) try to post as often as possible.”
For the most part, the type usage in each of the [Indiana Jones] movies is correct for the period depicted. With one exception: The maps used in the travel montages.”
…this isn’t a field of straightforward answers and universal solutions. We are often faced with problems that have multiple solutions, none of them perfect. To understand what makes each solution imperfect and to know which of them is the best choice in the situation—that’s knowing your craft.”
“If people use your site enough, they’ll want an even faster way to reach the content they want. They’re not browsing anymore. They are power users. They know what they want. Give them a nicely hackable URL to do this.”
“Actually, the page used to be #DD00FF from circa 1994 until late 2006, resulting in numerous complaints that it was not quite purple. On 6-Nov-2006 I changed it to #7D26CD based on various recommendations. It’s darker than the old purple, but more clearly purple.”
“Ironic, isn’t it? Giving away a physical item to promote a digital product? Welcome to this strange new world the internet’s creating.”
“We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.”
“While I was doing some research for one of my upcoming projects today, I found the very first Photoshop icon. It’s actually a tiny little photo shop!”
“Be polite. No, you’re no more cool than the other dork standing next to you. They may call it an ‘Interactive’ conference but really it’s a large gathering of computer nerds.”
“I haven’t expressed sheer effusiveness about a logo on Brand New before, but I think this warrants it: I love it. I would even call it ‘brilliantly executed’ and stand behind it 100%.”
“In 1976, after only working for two weeks at Apple, [original Apple logo designer, Ronald] Wayne relinquished his stock (10% of the company) for a one-time payment of $800 because he thought Apple was too risky.”
“In the beginning, there is the screenplay. The story, the IDEA. Your Photoshop canvas is blank but your mind is racing … You obsess over every pixel the way a good director would obsess over every frame.”
IconShoppe Icons to go
FoameeWho do you owe?
