Posts tagged with "typography"
List encounters of the third kind

Content warning: over a thousand words about the appearance of a certain kind of list. How many times have you seen or written a list like the one below? Label: one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph.Other label: one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe a short paragraph. one or more sentences, maybe...

Ghost 1.0

A few days ago, the Ghost blogging engine reached version 1.0, a significant milestone in the development of any piece of software, especially in today’s eternal-beta world. Though I no longer use it, I’m invested enough in its development to mark the occasion. For the first couple of years, this blog ran on Ghost, and it was good. Truth be told, I started this blog for no grander purpose than because Ghost looked cool and new and I wanted to try it out on my ...

Website updates: fonts and random string helpers

Ever have one of those days where you start out just doing some maintenance on something (say, a website), not meaning to spend too much time on it, but then get caught up in all sorts of little things and end up spending a good deal of your day fiddling with fonts and layouts? That was me with this website today, after I realised that hey, it had been quite a while since I’d last updated Ghost. A summary of changes made: The most meaningful changes have been to the random tagline...