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18th May 2005

Arial, Mon Amour, and Other Font Passions

“The Internet is a nice place for font wonks to hang out. They can laugh at other people’s typographic blunders, swap alphabets, snipe at famous designers and ban fonts they hate. Why should you care? Because everything you read, every sign, book and logo, is in a font. Fonts are like the air: you don’t notice them when they are fine, only when they are mucked up or obscure.”

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18th May 2005

Transparent custom corners and borders

“Have you ever wanted to make a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow? Did you also want to do that without cluttering your markup with a bunch of non-semantic div elements? Now you can.”

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18th May 2005

Too many cooks?

“Imagine what it would be like to work with 29 other people on the same CSS file. Now you get the chance to help me with a little teamwork experiment.”

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18th May 2005

Better Invoices for Better Business

“Invoices are a critical component of every business. They serve as a bill of services, closure for projects, a legal paper trail, and an opportunity to strengthen the rapport between you and your customer. Invoices that obfuscate information, incorrectly state terms or arrive incomplete can be a massive headache for all parties.”

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