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    Typographic Programming Wrapup

    October 6th, 2014

    I need to move on to other projects so I’m wrapping up the rest of my ideas in this blog. Gotta get it outta my brainz first.

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    Tagged: fonts programming

    Improving Regular Expressions with Typography

    September 15th, 2014

    After the more abstract talk I’d like to come back to something concrete. Regular Expressions, or regex, are powerful but often inscrutable. Today let’s see how we could make them easier to use through typography and visualization without diminishing that power.

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    Tagged: programming fonts

    Tabs vs Spaces, the Pointless War

    September 2nd, 2014

    So far my posts on Typographic Programming have covered font choices and formatting. Different ways of rendering the source code itself. I haven’t covered the spacing of the code yet, or more specifically: indentation. Or even more specifically: tabs vs spaces.

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    Tagged: fonts programming

    Typographic Programming: Fonts

    August 25th, 2014

    Apparently my last post hit HackerNews and I didn’t know it. That’s what I get for not checking my server logs.

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    Tagged: programming fonts

    Typographic Programming Language

    August 22nd, 2014

    Allow me to present a simple thought experiment. Suppose we didn’t need to store our code as ASCII text on disk. Could we change the way we write – and more importantly read – symbolic code? Let’s assume we have a magic code editor which can read, edit, and write anything we can imagine. Furthermore, assume we have a magic compiler which can work with the same. What would the ideal code look like?

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    Tagged: programming fonts

    Typography 101

    December 3rd, 2009

    Typography is the study of

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    Tagged: best fonts

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