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Archive for July 9th, 2008

Google opensources internal data exchange format

Posted by Michael on July 9th, 2008

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Today, Google announces the open-sourcing of their Protocol Buffers project. From a first glance, it seems to be a high-performance way to exchange deep data structures between different services (it seems Google has a need for that — they claim that their production servers constantly run at full capacity). XML parsing [...]

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How do type designers write by hand?

Posted by Michael on July 9th, 2008

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My handwriting sucks. That’s why I use a keyboard whenever I need to make sure that what I write down is actually read/write. Still, I am very fond of good design, and of good typefaces.
The man in blue is wondering about the typeface designers themselves: “There’s great power in a typeface, [...]

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