Matthew Butterick offers Practical Typography, a splendid introduction to practical typography. If you enjoy it, he suggests buying one of his fonts. You've heard the name before: his last work was Typography for Lawyers, an excellent guide to typography for lawyers.
Practical Typography
Surgeons use free IKEA pencils to mark bone cuts
The free IKEA pencil — the little stub in the box next to the maps and measuring tapes — has changed color over the years, from blue to yellow to… READ THE REST
This concrete playground slide looks like brutalist architecture
A concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, looks more like a piece of brutalist architecture than a place for children to play. Built in the late 1950s or 1960s in… READ THE REST
This interactive sketchbook turns your drawings into tessellating patterns
Escherllate is a fun browser sketchbook built around tessellation. You draw on a central tile, and your lines instantly repeat across surrounding copies. The result is a living pattern that… READ THE REST
Play 500+ games with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $62
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: The Ultimate 3-Month Xbox Game Pass gives you access to over 500 high-quality games, in-game add-ons, consumables,… READ THE REST
Your camera roll is a disaster — This app fixes it for $60
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: If your camera roll is a graveyard of screenshots and duplicate photos, CleanMyPhone uses AI to sort through… READ THE REST
Learn 150+ languages for life for $70 with uTalk
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the uTalk language learning app and learn from native speakers for $69.97 (reg. $300),… READ THE REST
