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Jon Tan
Personal blog · jontangerine.com/logdesignwriting
Jon Tan's personal blog at jontangerine.com covers design and writing. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jon Tan's blog on web design and typography, covering web fonts, paragraph styling and display type. HN readers cite it as a design resource and point newcomers to it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-10
What Hacker News says?
I can't believe no one has mentioned: Jon Tan His taste is exquisite his websites are beautiful and functional. http://jontangerine.com/
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on “Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?”Submitted We, Who Are Web Designers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe internet is pretty awesome, and has a lot of resources too. :P Some of my favorites: http://www.viget.com/inspire/ , http://veerle.duoh.com/ , http://www.webdesignerwall.com/ , and http://jontangerine.com/ . Even if these resources don't have tutorials, surround yourself with design and you'll start picking it up.
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on “Ask HN: Recommend some good books for a dev with no design background?”Submitted The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan 陳 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell one issue is the Cleartype is, somewhat unbelievably, worse than the standard Windows rasterisation for text at display sizes, where you would most want to use custom fonts: http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/11/display-type-and-the-ras... Personally, even with that caveat, I don't think the accessibility trade-offs make sense to ditch the built in system for some 3rd party hack. That's never stopped web designer…
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on “Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)”Submitted Ides of March and Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBe sure to check out this link within the post: http://jontangerine.com/silo/typography/p/ There he gives 12 examples of paragraph styling and the CSS needed.
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on “The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan 陳”Submitted Given the choice, what work would you choose to do? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting article on concept of "White labelling" of food stuffs. Anyone know of software/web app examples of this? ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product via http://jontangerine.com/log/2009/12/introducing-analog Who is the "Richelieu" of software?
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on “There's new appetite for peddlers of cheap eats”