Your Code Sucks

So, when I hear that someone has looked at someone else’s code base and determined that it sucked I smile and remember what it was like to be so new and sure of myself.

Your Code Sucks – Girl Developer

View from Kicking Horse Gondola

This is one of the views from the top of the Kicking Horse gondola. You can see mountains from six national parks from here. Spectacular.

Nice Entity — "Find your character!"

Link: Nice Entity — “Find your character!”

Quick References of Most Common Entities.

FontFonter

Try Web FontFonts on any website. Enter a url and FontFonter uses custom CSS and other techniques to temporarily replace a site’s font styles with Web FontFonts.

FontFonter

I could spend hours playing around with this. Very well done. See also the Google Font Previewer

Sometimes the message is just the message

Sometimes the message is just the message. It might not have an inner meaning that can be brought forward (think of a letterhead for a metal-works business or an advert for an accountant — often dry, huh?). But this doesn’t mean that order can’t be given and brought forward. Sizes of type should be deliberate so that it is clear what is important and what’s to be read first, then second, third and so on. Whatever is on the page should be deliberately and thoughtfully put in its place.

“Clarity!” Demanded the Modernists – Retinart

Outsmarting the Facebook Lobster Trap

Always look for ways to pull people out of the lobster trap and into the greater connective commons. Use Facebook as an entry point into other, more broadly connective media, never the other way around

Nonprofit Online News: Outsmarting the Facebook Lobster Trap: Three Worries, One Guideline, Seven Principles

Includes a great list of points for how to make the most of facebook.

Curling Table

Curling Table July 16th, 2010 Expose This Design: Samare
Manufacture: self-production (babiche – Marcel Lemay)
Date: 2010 (via The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » Curling Table).

One can never have too much curling.

Moved to Tumblr

I have started posting at aprilmains.tumblr.com.

Bringing Order and Clarity to the Weather Information in My Local Paper

The layout for the weather forecast in this newspaper is confusing and difficult to read. A few simple changes can make it easier to grasp accurately and scan quickly. On the right is a more readable suggestion. I don’t have the exact fonts but you get the idea.

The most important information about the weather isn’t the date, it’s the weather.

I have given greater emphasis to the forecast temperatures by making them larger and bolder and moving them to the left side so that they are the first information seen by English language readers. I’ve also moved the icon closer to the conditions text to make a more logical grouping. This will make the weather forecast easier to scan by creating a distinct column of temperatures down the left hand side and a column of forecast weather conditions on the right hand side.

Reference: Thinking With Type

A typographic hierarchy expresses an organizational system for content, emphasizing some data and diminishing others. A hierarchy helps readers scan a text, knowing where to enter and exit and how to pick and choose among its offerings. Each level of the hierarchy should be signaled by one or more cues, applied consistently across a body of text. A cue can be spatial (indent, line spacing, placement on page) or graphic (size, style, color of typeface). Infinite variations are possible.

Great clouds last night