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There’s not a mainstream broadcaster in the UK who hasn’t commissioned FontSmith at one time or another. Be prepared to browse beautiful type. - Jon Tan

A magazine about Italian typography. Beautiful. - Jon Tan

Pool of typographic ornaments known as the hand, pointing hand, hand director, pointer, digit, fist, mutton fist, bishop's fist, index, and indicationum. - Jon Tan

Regarding the history of the type ornament taken from scribes known as the ‘manicule’ or hand, pointing hand, hand director, pointer, digit, fist, mutton fist, bishop's fist, index, indicationum. Fascinating reading. - Jon Tan

"Thanks for the kind words, Nick! http://fontdeck.com/ is something I’m involved in that’s also worth keeping an eye on for web fonts in the future. All the best to you and your readers." - Jon Tan

Bookmarklet to refresh just the CSS for a page/view, avoiding the need to reload the entire page when testing style iterations. - Jon Tan

‘Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session.’ — Fantanstic in every way. - Jon Tan

A pair of new shoes is given to a child in need with every pair purchased — great idea, and I like the slouchy shoes, too. - Jon Tan

PDF (3.5 MB) from the Taipei Times featuring Ri Xing Typography which has the last complete set of traditional Chinese character lead moulds in the world. - Jon Tan

"All the best, mate! I have a certain feeling the other doors are already wide open." - Jon Tan

"All the best, mate! I have a certain feeling the other doors are already wide open." - Jon Tan

"Thanks, guys, I really appreciate you taking the time to comment. I hope I can live up to your kind anticipation and praise. Good luck to you who’re making their own changes, and my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your encouragement! Pat, it seems like so long ago. Amazing how time flies. You, Jon and I need to share a pint again soon. Come to Bristol (with an open offer to all), and I’ll introduce you to Bee Sting cider. :) Jason and Dan, Cheers for the offer! I’ll definitely be in Dumbo again at some point. I still have friends like Chris, Rebecca, and old colleagues there, so when I’m back, I’ll look you up. Dumbo is a fantastic little place, Vivien. From my uncle’s time 20 years ago when it was sketchy, to all of the people that have moved in since, it has a great flavour. Try it sometime. :) Hopefully I’ll be writing more soon. Thanks for the suggestions. Paul, you have a daughter? Holy cow, dude, I have to meet her! I never even knew you had a Twitter account." - Jon Tan

As it says on the tin. A gold mine of stuff you didn't know. - Jon Tan

Not so brief, but very, very good reading from Thomas Phinney. - Jon Tan

Print versus screen readability comparison around text size. - Jon Tan

Proposal from John Daggett on 2009-06-29 (www-style@w3.org from June 2009) - Jon Tan

Illuminating way of comparing print and screen text size. - Jon Tan

Erudition for the typophiles from Monotype. - Jon Tan

Quote: “Pieter Omvlee won an Apple Design Award this year for his app's elegant UI backed by a powerful tagging system…If you've used iPhoto or iTunes you'll be instantly familiar with the FontCase interface.” - Jon Tan

The Imaginary foundation was established in Geneva in 1973 as an experimental "think-tank" for new ideas. So, the year I was born. Great prints and t-shirts, still. - Jon Tan

Create to-do list items in Things automatically from Basecamp, Mail, iCal, and others. - Jon Tan

Font subsetting tool (also generates .eot files) from Phillip Taylor. - Jon Tan

So this is what NASA was thinking about as I was a little boy. Fantastic (literally) and well worth a bit of browsing time. - Jon Tan

Browser widget to strip content from a page and make it more legible from Arc90 Lab. Simple but good. - Jon Tan

Bespoke type. Great product. - Jon Tan

Beautifully simple technical / urban clothing made from recycled or sustainable materials. Pricy but good. - Jon Tan

Based on the exquisite calligraphy of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, and just updated via Linotype. - Jon Tan

Fantastic hand-drawn Molskine record of SxSW 2009 from Mike Rohde of http://www.rohdesign.com/ - Jon Tan

From the weird to the wonderful: VIllain chairs to the fire bucket barbeque. Great stuff. - Jon Tan

Digitises text from receipts (IRS approved), and any printed documents like business cards. It's, well, neat. - Jon Tan