Clagnut summaries

Leading type designers love webfonts

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:10:08 PST

At Typ09, FontShop put together Webfonts Week, a series of interviews with leading type designers. There is universal support for webfonts now, even from those who were dead set against it a year ago. Read more.

18 months of beagle ownership

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:14:41 PST

Poppy is 1½ today. She’s my first dog and, it’s been a wonderful, if occasionally trying experience for both Her Indoors and me. Read more.

The postcode lookup pattern

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:36:13 PST

As a way of enabling address input, the UK postcode look-up is fraught with danger and is rarely implemented well. As is often the case in UX design, everything is fine until an exception is reached. Read more.

Immediate impressions on the new iTunes 9

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:54:47 PST

I didn’t think I’d care much, but there’s a few things I need to get off my chest. Read more.

Talking Type and Design at South by Southwest

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:22:14 PST

I’m on two proposed panels for SxSW 2010 – please cast a thumbs up in their favour! Also, some typography and other interesting looking panels that caught my eye. Read more.

The dConstruct Time Capsule

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:03:51 PST

Win a VIP ticket with the dConstruct Time Capsule, and future proof yourself with a dConstruct workshop. Read more.

How to stop images breaking rounded corners in Safari

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:43:42 PST

When inline images are displayed in box with -webkit-border-radius applied to it, the image is not cropped as expected. There is a simple workaround, at least for Safari. Read more.

Whatever happened to font-stretch?

Tue, 19 May 2009 06:56:34 PST

The font-stretch property was removed from CSS 2 in the transition to CSS 2.1. Unfortunately this leaves us with a rather gaping hole in overall font support. Read more.

Five minute chocolate mug cake

Fri, 08 May 2009 10:27:41 PST

Something for the weekend, or indeed any other time of the week; a version of this recipe seems to have achieved viral status. I made the recipe last night. It’s incredibly easy and it works a treat. Read more.

But why, some say, the moon?

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:33:47 PST

Returning from speaking at the Web App Summit, we watched the brilliant Frost/Nixon and I was reminded of JFK’s fantastic 1962 Moon speech to Rice University. Read more.