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Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography v5.3 Edge of the Web presentation Thanks. Yea, happy to give it at LGD at LCA. Will add some more free desktop stuff to it for that. (: 1 week ago
Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography (#5) @Jakob Moses: Thank you. I used Minion Pro designed by Robert Slimbach which ships with Mac OS X and Fontin Sans, designed by Jos Buivenga, and freely available for download and even direct @font-face linking on the web: http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontinsans.html Kind regards. —Pascal 3 months ago
Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography (#5) @Kenneth Kam: Thanks. To answer you question: it depends. It depends on the language you’re writing in, the styles you’re following, and the typeface you’re setting. The Chigaco Manual of Style and the Oxford Guide to Style regulate an un-spaced em dash (‘closed’ em dash). In a number of European languages the en dash is sometimes picked in place of the em dash and surrounded by spaces. As with typefaces themselves, some may have very long em dashes relative to the other glyphs and particularly when combined with full spaces on either side of the dash can produce large breaks in sentences (and aid in the production of paragraph rivers). I think a could compromise is using hair spaces or thin spaces (& thinsp; in HTML ) to hug the em dash. 3 months ago
Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography (#5) Thanks. (: 3 months ago
Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web I’ve written a more conclusive article defending reset style sheets on my web site. 2 years ago
Pascal Klein commented on Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web I disagree – reset style sheets aren’t “bad” at all. None of the arguments nor alternatives really fix the consistency problem: 1. Listing a reset style sheet and then over-riding various definitions in your own stylesheet is a) part of the design principle and b) if you’re that worried you can merge the reset stylesheet and your own together – I usually have a development set of stylesheets and a final production version that I run through CSSTidy. This also debunks the load time argument. 2. The YUI reset stylesheet when CSSTidy-ed is under 3 kb. Un-optimized images, poorly structured (X)HTML and back-end code or even poorly written main stylesheets will add to the latency much more. I think this argument is fairly baseless and irrelevant. 3. YUI reset.css does not alter the outline property. 4. Just because there are a larger number of differing user agent stylesheets doesn’t necessarily mean reset stylesheets will need to be bigger – if one browser’s stylesheet defines the margin-bottom of a h1 element as 1em, and another 1.5, resetting it with margin: 0; fixes them all. Again I don’t see this much of an issue, even if it might mean that to accommodate for IE8, we may need to add another line or three to reset stylesheet. Also note it is possible to deliver compressed CSS files to clients that support them. On a final note, it really depends on the site you’re building. If you’re producing something for an upcoming Hollywood flick whereby without an over abundant use of Flash the site won’t get the approval stamp anyway – sure it’s relatively useless however when structuring large CMSs, intranets, news websites or the like it becomes highly useful. 2 years ago
Pascal Klein commented on What is Design Overall good message but justifying words and letters that way makes it highly difficult and annoying to read. Never justify letters! :-) 2 years ago

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