Jon Tangerine.

Pith & pulp — not an image, but perhaps a reversion to type.

Bristol at night

After midnight in Bristol → Next

Preface

Hi, I’m Jon Tan, lead designer at Grow Collective in Bristol, UK.

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Lately in the Log

  1. Collaboration at OSCON ’08 — Thu, 10th Jul 2008 {2}

    In just under two weeks time I’ll be delivering a joint talk with Chris Shiflett at OSCON, the biggest open source…

  2. No. 172 — Fri, 4th Jul 2008 {13}

    When I woke this morning it seemed like any other day. The sun was shining. I liked that. The boys were mischievous. I…

  3. The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Mon, 9th Jun 2008 {16}

    Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas. After selecting a typeface, choosing the right paragraph style is one…

  4. Reflecting on Acceptance — Mon, 12th May 2008 {15}

    You might already know that my entries are mostly about design with a few personal perspectives that peep out between the…

  5. Typographers, lend me your pain — Fri, 2nd May 2008 {13}

    Dear web typographers and designers, I need your help (and your woes!) A couple of days back, Jason Teague, Director of Web…

  6. An Ephemeral Site: Denna Jones — Fri, 25th Apr 2008 {21}

    Denna Jones is a designer, and we recently launched a site for her that is unlike any other that Jon Gibbins and I have done…

  7. A Site for Sore Eyes: OmniTI — Thu, 24th Apr 2008 {8}

    You may have seen the recent case study featuring the evolution of OmniTI’s brand mark. Work on their new web site…

  8. Naked in Tahiti (where’s Ms CSS?) — Wed, 9th Apr 2008 {10}

    Naked again. Why, oh why every year do I feel the urge to cast off the perfidity of style and expose my structure to the…

  9. You can browse all entries in full via the log archive →

Conferences and Talks

  1. OSCON 2008

    21 Jul 2008, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, USA

  2. UWE Web Developers Conference

    12 Nov 2008, Watershed, Bristol, UK

Featured from the Log

  1. The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS — {57}

    What is an “em”? Using ems to create an elastic layout with scalable text and images. Also in Italiano, Deutsch and Español.

  2. What Future for Web Typography & Screen Fonts? — {10}

    The core web fonts are in stasis. Whither licensing with the font-face property? This is a few thoughts on making quality faces with mutliple fonts ubiquitous.

  3. Designer PHP: A Simple Include — {27}

    The first in a series of simple PHP tutorials to make interface design more efficient and easy to update.

  4. Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts — {6}

    Exploring optimal anti-aliasing for core Web fonts and the rendering engines that make it all possible.

Remarks from the Log

  1. By Kevin in Naked in Tahiti (where’s Ms CSS?):

    Wow what a great idea, A CSS naked day – I think next year i may have to do it on my site. I wonder if there…

  2. By Sean Lahman in The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design:

    The thing about typography and design is that it’s not always apparent (especially to the layman) why things…

  3. By Richard Williams in The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS:

    I can’t get this to work now with FireFox 3. Reducing body font-size to 0.8em, say, will reduce the character…

  4. By Brian Z. in Collaboration at OSCON ’08:

    Too bad I’m on the other side of the country, but one of these years I’ll go to such a convention for the…

Snippets from the Silo

  1. 12 Examples of Paragraph Typography

  2. Placeholder Markup

  3. Core Web fonts test suite

  4. Elasic Layout Example

  5. Pixels to ems conversion for CSS

  6. Using phpinfo() to Discover the PHP Version and Modules Installed on your Server

  7. Complex type rendering test

  8. POSH (plain old semantic HTML) badge

  9. HTML button test

Work with me via ~ Grow Collective ~ a creative consortium.