Archive for the 'Typography' Category
RestructuredText, Markdown, and Textile (and typography)
When I first discovered Dean Allen’s Textile I thought it was god’s gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
ReST for Markdown and Textile Users
ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective.
Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character […]
Web Typography, Bringhurst-style
Read The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web at http://webtypography.net/. A great project devoted to a wonderful book.
The Elements of Typographic Style
Thanks to Nat for letting me borrow The Elements of Typographic Style (ISBN: 0881792063).Update: I’m glad I looked at bn.com on a whim, the 3.0 edition was released last month (this month?) and Amazon was still selling an old version. As it is a .0 revision I’ve heard rumors it sports a more in-depth look […]