The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces is an attractive yet simple web-app that makes it easy to find 'n' filter your way through popular fonts, with some interesting stats and visualizations of the set. [via MeFi]
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Oct 24, 2017
1,000 fonts to peruse and choose
Here's a jet with an outdoor deck for the ultra rich who've made a killing from Covid-19
“You’ve probably heard that America’s billionaires have gotten at least $282 billion richer during the pandemic,” writes Rain Noe on Core77. “What will they spend that extra cash on, once this is all over?” Rain recommends the Aviro Business Jet Explorer, a private jet with an outdoor deck. It’s just a concept design for BAE […]
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Michael Connelly's imaginary Blue Note albums
Police procedural novelist Michael Connelly is a connoisseur of jazz music so it’s no surprise that his most famous character, LAPD detective Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch, is also a deep enthusiast of the genre. (Connelly has a page on his personal Web site all about the “music in the novels.”) Illustrator Russell Walks took those cues […]
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Stuck on VHS is a visual history of video store stickers
Stuck on VHS is a book that has over 1000 photos of stickers that video rental stores of the 1980s and 1990s would stick onto the cassettes. These stickers would be used to let people know about a video’s genre and rating, and also to remind them that they could be fined if they neglected […]
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This digital content training will have customers chasing you, not the other way around
Promoting products is almost nothing like it was back in the Mad Men days. In fact, the digital landscape has changed the ad game so much that it barely even resembles early Grey’s Anatomy days anymore. Marketing a product digitally isn’t about the right ad slogan or color scheme. It’s about crafting the narrative around […]
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The Coconut Light goes anywhere, fits anywhere, and it’s hypnotically cool
Every once in a while, we see a new product come along that’s so versatile and elegantly simple that it’s strange no one’s ever gone there before. Portable lights themselves aren’t new, but there’s something about the MOGICS Coconut Light that’s so seamlessly well-designed and adaptable that it feels startlingly original. The Coconut is basically […]
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30 items on sale for Memorial Day that'll improve your home and beyond
With the U.S. cautiously reopening, it’s probably time to take stock of where you’re at. After spending all these weeks in the house, you’ve likely already assembled a little list of items you either realized you were missing or need to replace. And those kinds of revelations probably apply to nearly every room. We got […]
