Silo

A repository of excerpts, examinations and experiments, iterated arbitrarily in keeping with the diabolical alliteration of this sentence. Some refer to log entries, which they support. Others stand alone in glorious solitude.

  1. Typography

    1. Rendering test for display sizes
    2. @font-face test with Fontin Regular by Jos Buivenga
    3. 12 examples of paragraph typography
    4. Core web fonts test suite
    5. Spaces test suite

  2. CSS

    1. Complex type rendering test
    2. Elastic layout example
    3. Pixels to ems conversion table for CSS

  3. HTML

    1. HTML <button> test
    2. Placeholder markup with lorem ipsum

  4. Microformats

    1. Plain old semantic HTML badge

  5. PHP

    1. Discovering PHP versions and modules with phpinfo()
Type tree with words forming the branches.

Lately in the Log

  1. Display Type & the Raster Wars — Thu, 6th Nov 2008 {18}

    ClearType is 10 years old this Autumn. For most of that time it lay hidden…

  2. Happy Birthday, Son! — Wed, 5th Nov 2008

    Dear Xen, you’re five today. Five years old! You left for school this…

  3. @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work — Fri, 31st Oct 2008 {24}

    All Hallows’ Eve seems the perfect time for something a little…

  4. Flipped Types — Wed, 15th Oct 2008 {9}

    Sometimes, flipping things around can be a useful mental exercise. It can…

Remarks from the log

  1. By Ivo Ivanov in Designer PHP: A Dynamic Menu with If and Else:

    Thanks Jon, this was a very useful tutorial for a graphic designer like me:)

  2. By Chris Hester in Display Type & the Raster Wars:

    Sadly, even with IE7 installed, I am seeing drive images applied to new computers that a) turn off XP’s default…

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

    It is realy great designs on this site…… this is very helpfull site for web designers…iam a web…

  4. By ilmu komputer gratis in The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS:

    Wow… how a great article! It really inspired me to build elastic layout. thanks.

  5. By Patrick Algrim in @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work:

    Awesome write-up. I am really glad to see that people are focusing on the font issues. Typography is such a huge…

People and XFN

Friends, colleagues and authors with interesting voices:

  1. Jon Gibbins (dotjay)

  2. Alan Colville

  3. Andrei Zmievski

  4. Ben Ramsey

  5. Chris Shiflett

  6. Denna Jones

  7. Ed Finkler

  8. Elizabeth Naramore

  9. Elliot Jay Stocks

  10. John D. Boardley

  11. Kester Limb

  12. Molly E. Holzschlag

  13. Nicola Pressi

  14. Peoples’ Republic of Stokes Croft

  15. Piotr Fedorczyk

  16. Richard Rutter

  17. Simon Pascal Klein

  18. Terry Chay

  19. Theo Schlossnagle

I’m in transition; get in touch to work with me.