What is a newspaper typeface?
typedrawers.com/discussion/1...

Besides the obvious functional characteristics (serif, sturdy, spatially efficient), newspaper text faces tend to be fairly "conservative" in personality.

#typography #typeface #newspaper

Typewriter / Typeface: The Legacy of the Writing Machine in Type Design
typographica.org/on-typograph...

..referred to the typeface used for writing in a personal printing machine || Currently used to define the appear­ance of faces that remind us of those that were used in typewriters.

#typeface

La morale des objets
www.persee.fr/doc/comm_058...

Une analyse de la logique sociale qui règle la pratique des objets selon les diverses classes ou catégories ne peut qu'être en même temps une analyse critique de l'idéologie de la « consommation », ...

#design

The Aesthetics of Symmetry
chappyessays.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/t...

I was walking along Commonwealth Drive one day in Boston admiring a wrought iron fence when I became introspective, curious as to why I appraised the fence as attractive.

#design #symmetry #aesthetics

After analyzing billions of radio signals received over fifteen years, a team of researchers has zeroed in on 100 that are most likely to have been sent by extraterrestrials 👽. Are the 100 remaining signals messages from across the universe or just a bunch of space noise? https://ow.ly/X2Ls50Y0mCY

It's been ~2 years but I still find it fun:

Animation vs. Math
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6...

#animation #mathematics

closing out a great year for palaeontology with a surprising discovery from denmark that indicates the survival of ammonites following the asteroid impact that marked the cretaceous-paleogene boundary
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There have been five mass extinctions in Earth's history
ourworldindata.org/mass-extinct...

There have been five big #massExtinctions in Earth's history – these are called the "Big Five". Understanding the reasons and timelines of these events is important .. #paleontology

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language
lithub.com/how-babies-a...

How children learn language has long been of interest to those concerned with its evolution. The idea that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ has been promoted, ...

#earlyChildhood #linguistics

Fonts for Complex Data
www.typography.com/blog/fonts-f...

Retail displays, packaged goods, financial reports and apps all present readers with a dizzying array of data. Here are a few ways to make quick work of their long lists, tiny annotations, and mighty stacks of numbers.

#typography #fonts

That #rotationCurves become flat at large radii is one of the most famous results in extragalactic astronomy. This had been established by #VeraRubin and her collaborators by the late 1970s. #galaxy #cosmology

tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/r...

Probably the best summary of the current state of #observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a #trace? What is a #span? Is #log line a span? Do I need #traces if I have logs? #metrics

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