links for 2011-04-24

  • "This special issue of Common-place explores food. It particularly investigates the production and consumption of food during the age of experiment, that period between 1820 and 1890 in the United States after the soil crisis of the early nineteenth century disrupted customary agriculture and before scientific agriculture became institutionalized nationally in the system of experimental stations legislated into being by the Hatch Act (1887)."
  • "While Adelle is a slab serif typeface conceived specifically for intensive editorial use, mainly in newspapers and magazines, its personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface.
    The intermediate weights deliver a very legible and neutral look when used in text sizes, providing the usual robustness expected in a newspaper font. The unobstrusive appearance, excellent texture and slightly dark color allow it to behave flawlessly in continuous text setting, even in the most demanding editorial applications.…"
  • "NovelSans Pro is new humanist grotesque typeface family matching the award winning serif typeface Novel Pro.
    NovelSans' carefully attuned character design, well balanced weight contrast and the classic proportions show many similarities with the serif version and enable designers to combine those two families and reach highest quality in typography.…"

links for 2011-04-17

links for 2011-04-14

  • "One of the characteristics of the titles was that they used multiple variations of the same basic letter forms to create unusual variations in character placement and to allow nesting of certain characters in special relationships with other characters. Simulating this effect required the creation of three complete sets of characters, representing three possible positions and forms for each letter. A few letters even have a fourth variation. For the user this means that hitting the any letter key in combination with shift or option will produce different versions of the letter.…"

links for 2011-04-10

  • "Standing in contrast to these stretched models is the hybrid. It is based on the principle that a single entity—be it an L3C, a 501(c)(3), a benefit corporation, or a traditional for-profit—cannot by itself do everything that a social venture needs to do. Instead, the hybrid uses a series of contracts and agreements to combine one or more independent businesses and nonprofits into a flexible structure that allows them to conduct a wide range of activities and generate synergies that cannot be done with a single legal entity. The two (or more) entities that generally make up a hybrid are distinct for legal purposes, and each is responsible for compliance with the laws and regulations that govern it, but when properly structured, the legally distinct entities can behave much like a single entity. For these reasons, a hybrid is often a better solution than a single legal entity that tries to incorporate a wide range of activities."
  • "A few years back, when a user at the University of Manchester asked for help with the ‘diff – files too big/ out of memory’ problem, I wrote a modern version that I called idiffh (for Ian’s diffh). My ground rules were:
    Work on any text files on any operating system with a C compilerHave no limits on, e.g., line lengths or file sizeNever ‘give up’ if the going gets tough (i.e. when the files are very different)"