lets play: url abc
8 CommentsOn the topic of miscellaneous on February 10th
It’s Wednesday night and I’m bored—and what better to do when you’re bored than play a game. Lately, I’ve been seeing many designers playing the ABC URL game on their blogs.
The rules are simple: Launch your favorite, most frequently used browser for surfing the web. Start by typing, one letter at a time, the entire alphabet into the search bar to see what pops up first. Record the results.
I’ve discovered new and interesting links and resources from seeing what other designers results were. Below you will find mine.
- A - Revised Font Stack
- B – Best Web Gallery
- C - CSS-Tricks
- D - Dribbble
- E - Elliot Jay Stocks
- F - Facebook *hanging head in shame*
- G - Google Reader
- H - BrianHoff.net
- I - I Love Typography: Sex, lies, & type
- J - Jason Santa Maria
- K - The Kid Whisperer Blog (blog I designed for a client a few months back)
- L - Ligature, Loop & Stem
- M - MFR Currency Management (client website)
- N - ffffound
- O - Owltastic
- P - Pattern Tap
- Q - Amazon.com
- R – Remember the milk
- S - Smashing Magazine
- T - Twitter.com
- U - Unmatched Style
- V - My Ember (my third result, however I wanted to list a new result)
- W - We Love Typography
- X – My Amazon bookstore (again, this was a third, yet new result)
- Y - Flickr Inspiration Stream
- Z - Zazzle (I don’t even remember visiting this one)
Feel free to submit yours in the comments below or share a link to your URL ABCs from your blog.
Vassilis Mastorostergios said on February 11, 2010 @ 1:43 am
Where’s Y? :P
Brian Hoff said on February 11, 2010 @ 10:24 am
Vassilis,
Woops! It was late last night, but I’ve added it in now. :)
Amrinder Sandhu said on February 11, 2010 @ 7:50 pm
Glad to see myself at the top of the stack (A-Z). Thanks for the mention, Brian. And I love your designs ;)
Brian Hoff said on February 11, 2010 @ 8:32 pm
Amrinder,
Of course. It was a great article (font stacking) in additional to a great site. Also, thanks for the kind words on my work, and as always I appreciate the comment.
Devlin said on February 12, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Pretty cool post, thought I’d play along…
http://devlindonnelly.com/2010/02/abc-url-game/
Ron L said on April 12, 2010 @ 10:05 pm
Great idea! I’m not a google-launcher, but still had no results for ‘x’, strange.
http://www.ronlipke.com/blog/a-b-c-urls/
Love your site, Brian. Probably the biggest inspiration for my own redesign (in the works).
Brian Hoff said on April 13, 2010 @ 4:40 am
Ron,
Thank you. Really means a lot hearing that. Maybe I should change my URL to start with an ‘x’ so behoff.com pops-up. ;)
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Semblance said on February 10, 2010 @ 10:50 pm
I also did one a few months ago… I work on 2 different computers every weekday. I think it would have been more interesting to see a combination of the 2 browsers’ history. http://www.semblance.co.za/2009/12/14/url-abc/