Author Archives: Anton

more great moments in typography

I see I haven’t mentioned here that Charlie Stross’s novel Saturn’s Children is printed in modified Bembo, with single-loop ‘a’ and hook-tailed ‘gy’. It’s remarkable how much the page color is affected by those three letters.

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great moments in typesetting

I’m reading Ken Macleod’s novel The Execution Channel (Tor hardcover 2007). It appears that someone replaced every ‘fi’ or ‘fl’ with a ligature, without checking case.

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all the politics I need

I designed a bumper sticker, which is not acutely relevant just now — but I wanted to get it done ahead of the rush.

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who needs rich text, anyway?

Apple’s TextEdit refuses to save as .txt. What’s up wit dat?

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let’s not exaggerate

It’s tempting to say that the jail sentence of Alan Shadrake confirms his allegation, but no; it doesn’t show that Singapore’s judiciary is corrupt, merely that the Republic of Singapore is a coward.

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free peeks by appointment

I got a webcam for my birthday. If you want to see what I’m like in realtime, it can be arranged. I don’t promise to scintillate.

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link cautiously

Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.

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