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Just a short follow up to my previous post of few months ago.My elected winner w...

05 Auguscht, 2020

Selawik was released by Microsoft as an open source font as a replacement for the proprietary Segoe UI. This is pretty significant and unthinkable (Microsoft and open source?) just a few years ago. They even release the glyphs source file. Wow! This is no

04 Auguscht, 2020

I usually don’t do a lot of reposting but these are very entertaining by Sarah Cooper This sounds a lot like me in meetings and this is not just very funny but true or even more polite Credits:The Cooper Review There is also a calendar available for p

02 Auguscht, 2020

Today I purchased a license for the web version of the font Tahoma that is now used in this website. Born to be added in Windows 95 it fits well with the retro windows theme of this website. The default font that came with the CSS was Arial so why change

02 Auguscht, 2020

Back in the late 90’s (to give you some context Google was founded in 1998) the web was moving rapidly from static websites (made with Microsoft Frontpage, Dreamweaver or other now obsolete HTML/CSS editors) to dynamic website. There was Perl which was pr

02 Auguscht, 2020

##Fonts.Yoga! Fonts.yoga is a game that challenges you to identify very similar fonts: Helvetica, Arial, San Francisco and font.yoga! ###These three fonts appear almost identical but..they are not! Collect points by guessing the right font! ###How do

19 Juli, 2020

hi I have spent a bit some time coming up with a new iOS app idea. I never managed to do a game. Since I love fonts I got this idea: how about a simple game where you need to identify 4 very similar fonts and can learn the 100 most frequently used German

19 Juli, 2020

I didn’t write in this blog since May. A lot of things happened since then, most notably the end of lockdown in Switzerland and return to semi-normality. Not full normality because 3 digits cases (or high 2 digits) are still reported daily. Mostly becaus

18 Juli, 2020

It looks like moving back and forth to different technologies is my new hobby 🤔. Truth to be told all frameworks/web programming languages have pro and cons. I recently made some simple micro-website in PHP7 and it was pretty cool too. For this blog (sinc

04 Mai, 2020

My latest Züri.Tours app  (yes I know a tourism app during the lockdown is 🤨) was approved for iOS distribution but...not for macOS) but why? Because it is apparently a book📚:"Your app is primarily a book and is therefore not appropriate for the App

28 April, 2020

Probably this is the worse time ever to release a tourism related app. I have however been intrigued to try to develop an app with SwiftUI: the new framework launched by Apple last year.I welcome the idea of a simplier way to to an app in Swift: it was al

27 April, 2020

During this global corona virus pandemic, like many, I have been stuck trying to create a daily routine. I have read that this can be useful and perhaps help to lift the spirit in a difficult time. Listen to radio is not something that I started now (I al

13 April, 2020

Europe and Switzerland haveen plagued by COVID-19 also known as Corona Virus. Things have been pretty grim. In Switzerland going out is not forbidden but all shops are closed beside groceries stores and pharmacies. Even if is not formally forbidden to go

25 März, 2020

Taking advantage of the extra time imposed by the current situation with the 🦠 I have now moved back my blog from Python/Django to NodeJS. Why? After posting about how cool was to move to Django this sounds a bit weird but actually all the “pro” points of

17 März, 2020

I have always been fascinated –and sometimes amazed – by fonts. Typography is extremely important both offline and online. Some logos are now made just from the typeface e.g. Salt, Burberry or Google (do I really need to post a link to google?!). It is no

12 März, 2020