Monthly Archives: September 2008

Safari Bookshelf

Friday, September 12th, 2008

In a small company like ours, where everyone wears several hats, The O’Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf has become an indispensable resource for the person wearing the hat with the propeller.
Safari is a big electronic reference library of information technology related books from O’Reilly and other technical publishers well-known to IT departments. (O’Reilly books are the [...]

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Affair of the Century Font Family

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

In selecting typefaces, if you’re not a professional typographer, a good practice is to stick with one font family (e.g., Univers, Helvetica) throughout a document.
Our company has often used the combination of New Century for body text and Franklin Gothic for headlines. It turns out that, in a way, these fonts also come from the [...]

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