MetaFilter posts tagged with layout

The Secret Law of Page Harmony

Doleful Creature — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:04:55 -0800

A method to produce the perfect book (single-link graphic design essay).

That saw from the side might be.

Iteki — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:16:49 -0800

AskMeFi is (or rather, might be) accused. Metatalk is a beautiful sword (+4 attack). Mefi music is energetic. goodnewsfortheinsane is the only mod who gets their own room, but pb has an enormous exhibition space. I checked the layout of those rooms, but the results were... worrisome. You can play with that one yourself. The most important thing to remember is that Metafilter is a ginormous goddamn robot. Full list of toys, including some not listed from the main site. While the main site is SFW, some of these toys may not be, including the "sexy" calculator. Correlation¤Origin¤Onomancy¤Brilliant¤Side¤Weapon¤Char¤Floor¤Robot Calc¤Room¤Warrior¤Rice¤World¤House¤Chain¤Vital¤Machine

TIRED OF BRAND X?

The Whelk — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:20:37 -0800

An insert house provides labels and covers for products in TV and film production to avoid legal problems and Earl Hays Press is the big granddaddy of them all so why not enter an alternate off-brand universe of Butt Beer, Captain Sugarr, and Sports Page today?

There are sixteen panels I can put in this grid. Six are televisions, three are flashbacks, six are close-ups of objects falling through space. The other one... hurts.

Artw — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:28:46 -0800

Away From Human Memory: Editing And Composition In Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns'

Typography and the Kindle platform

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:52:23 -0800

Typography is about reading – and so are ebooks [via]

Hembakat är Bäst

phunniemee — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:28:10 -0800

Going to Ikea anytime soon? Stop by the kitchen section pick up their new baking cookbook, Homemade is Best, for free! (Limited time offer, only available in Sweden.) Try a game of guess-the-recipe and look at all the pretty pictures. [via]

Any sufficiently advanced brush pre-set

The Whelk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:18:24 -0800

Arron Diaz of Dresden Codak (previously previously previously) shows us how he makes his colorful comic pages at Indistinguishable From Magic, an art/instruction blog about Character Design, Hands In Storytelling, and Batman.

Secret desktop wars

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:32 -0800

The war in desktop publishing began in 1985 in the shadowy hallways of offices, raging for decades and leaving scores wounded as first one king, then another was toppled. Today the current leader gleefully celebrates its victory, but on the horizon, a possible challenger looms.

It's real! You can touch it!

You Should See the Other Guy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800

Remember Paper is a blog with photos of interesting magazines, books, and other paper-based ephemera. NSFW.

Web Building Tools

netbros — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:54 -0800

Fyrdility has been busy with useful web building tools. First, he has a jQuery plug-in to provide support for the CSS Template Layout Module. Template layout demos using the plug-in here. Then, there's the When can I use... browser compatibility tables that let you know when you can start using the latest web technologies, like CSS3, HTML5, SVG, etc.

Notch tubing without a notcher.

Mitheral — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:19:34 -0800

Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.

Elegant Pelicans

dobbs — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:56:15 -0800

The Pelican Project - six decades of Pelican book covers.

A Better Way to Read Text Online?

gottabefunky — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:03:33 -0800

A Better Way to Read Text Online? By reorganizing text into cascading patterns, more circular (even vaguely poetic) than the usual dull horizontal layout, visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) increases online reading comprehension and efficiency while reducing eyestrain. Among high school students, who read with the format over an entire academic year, the VSTF method increased both academic achievement and long-term reading proficiency by more than a full standard deviation over randomized controls. Try it out. (Any login works)

24 (Web) Ways of 2006

juiceCake — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:56:27 -0800

24 Ways - 2006 Edition This year's possibly useful 24 articles containing 24 tips and tutorials for those of us who love CSS and other related web development techniques. Last year's links are included too.