I’ve been thinking about keyboards lately, you’ll see why in a minute. The keyboard is a pretty amazing thing. Invented in the late 19th century along with the mechanism to imprint “type-writing” onto paper, keyboards first appeared as the operational end of the typewriter. Up until that time, all writing by all writers, authors, novelists, […]
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I Am My Keyboard
I Am My Keyboard, meditating on life in the digital age
Digital Typesetter Makes Headlines . . . Oops!
Digital Typesetter Makes Headlines . . . Oops! A typesetter for HarperCollins UK makes the wrong kind of news regarding Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, causing 80,000 books to be pulped.
The Typographer’s Curse: Automatic Leading
Automatic leading is about as satisfying as a robot dog. Increase or decrease leading to make your document look more professional.
Apple iPad Typography: Fonts We Actually Want
We haven’t seen much of the Apple iPad yet, and the screen shots we have seen show that the fonts for the Apple iPad are perhaps not all they might be. What do we know? Apple, as far as I know, has issued only the one press release on the day of the product’s announcement, […]