April 18, 2003
by Julie • Graphics
Bitstream’s just released the Vera font family as a cross platform replacement for the now removed MS core web fonts. Lot’s of folks are jumping up and down about this, and it’s a good thing they’re now out and available, especially for the Unix/Linux/Open Source/Etc. crowd but they’re just not doing it for me. I [...]
April 11, 2003
by Julie • Graphics
So of course, Quark had to release a pretty vague PR statement about it. John Gruber offers the official statement and a great real world translation. I wanna see what he comes up with when Adobe starts issuing PR verbiage about PS8.
February 12, 2003
by Julie • Graphics
Eric Meyer just put up a nifty little applet that will let you calculate the the midpoint and up to ten intermediate steps between two hex colors.
April 22, 2002
by Julie • About Creativity, Graphics
I was going through some of my favorite Photoshop sites today, and something occured to me – unless you are up in the Deke McCelland/Kai Krause guru/master level of photoshop godhood, you just aren’t going to be able to perfectly duplicate natural surfaces and textures. By this I mean creating from scratch a surface/shape/texture that [...]
March 21, 2002
by Julie • Graphics
Papryus is one of those very nice but tragically overused fonts. Usually when I see it, I’m prejudiced against whatever it’s being used for, regardless of what it is. So when I find an example of it being used and I actually like it, someone is doing something very right. Hilde Schneider-Mott has done this [...]