Posted on June 16, 2009 by Mike Rankin
So Father’s Day is less than a week away and you’ve procrastinated once again. What are you going to get the old man? Fear not, Publicious is here to help. We’ve got you covered. Provided your dad is a publishing technology geek, who loves free online goodies. Otherwise, you’re on your own.
Let’s face it, he [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2009 by Mike Rankin
I know, I know: what the hell is educated cheese?
“Educated cheese” is a phrase uttered by Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley in his color commentary during a recent Red Sox game. It is my favorite new term, and I use it as much as possible, simply because it the caviar of baseball slang. And [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Ah, springtime in Boston. The last remnants of dirty snow cower in the shadows near big box parking lots. The Emerson girls are trading in their UGGs for flip-flops. And with the first pitch at Fenway, the looooooooooooooooooong winter of ‘08–’09 was finally, officially, over ’round these parts. Now ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Happy Birthday, Publicious!
One year ago today, I published my first Publicious post. Here we are 150 posts later! This has been incredibly fun, rewarding, and tiring. In honor of the occasion, all of today’s links are staying “in house.” Sort of a Greatest Hits thing. Without further ado, here are the 10 most popular Publicious [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Extensis has posted a free 20-page guide on font management in OSX. Happily, it’s not just a lengthy ad for Suitcase Fusion. Of course they mention all the problems their products solve, but overall, there’s a strong signal-to-advernoise ratio. The guide has nice, clear explanations of which fonts are installed where with all your favorite [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Stumbled on an amazing (and I hate how overused that word is, but I have to use it) Japanese Flash game/font website, called FontPark. The idea is that you can use Flash interface to take apart the glyphs from a font and draw beautiful, funny, or just fun pictures. You can move, combine, scale, rotate, [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Mike Rankin
After a few night’s decent sleep, I am now fully recovered from l’affaire autosave. Let us never speak of it again. Time to jump back in the blogfire with both feet. This time the topic is something that’s just pure fun. It’s my new favorite site/application/addiction, and it’s called FontStruct.
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Mike Rankin
About a dozen years ago, as I embarked upon my journey into the realm of publishing, I bought a book called The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. I’m pretty sure it was recommended to me by the guy who taught my first Quark XPress class. I remember thinking it was a fine and fun [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Mike Rankin
A few font bits for your your lunchtimesuck:
Are you into fonts? I mean, are you really into fonts? Do you assign them personalities based on your experiences with them? Then check out Extensis’ amusingly creepy (or is it creepily amusing?) Typecaster videos that cast real people acting like fonts mixing in a singles bar.
I myself [...]
Filed under: Fonts | Tagged: Extensis, Fontifier, Fonts, Identifont, identify font, type | 2 Comments »
