things i’ve learned in december

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On the topic of things i've learned on December 21st

december 21:

GeoIP Wrangling

An excellent article on how to use IP-based geolocation to create a personalized greeting based on each visitor’s location.

Porchez Typofonderie and Delve Fonts join Typekit

New fonts and foundries have been added to Typekit, thus making it that much better.

Museo 500 typeface from exljbris

Go grab yourself the new, beautiful and free font from exljbris.

How a typeface is made

Christian Schwartz’s 2008 Talk “Couture Type and The New York Times.”

december 14:

Clients from hell

A hilarious and depressingly true collection of client statements and design requests as heard and told by the designers themselves.

The making of vesper

Insight into the making of a beautiful typeface, Vesper.

december 8:

Why snow is white

A different take on color theory, the basics of visual color perception and some wintry color palettes from the people at ColourLovers.

How to create branded urls

A great lesson by Shaun Inman on how to create personalized shorten URLs. (via: @gracesmith)

Performing a website redesign

A quick and to the point article discussing the opening presentation of A Site Redesign, by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Google chrome browser for mac officially released (BETA)

Google Chrome is now officially in live BETA for Mac users. It’s quick, snappy and search-able from the address bar.

Dragon dictation for the iphone [itunes link]

A super and free iPhone app. Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] allows you to easily speak and compose a text or email message. Did I mention that it works like a charm?

Phail-adelphia

The lovely city of Philadelphia, that I call home, now has a new logo that has Ben Franklin give the middle finger to and designers searching through clip art for similarities.