Red Pepper Flakes. A blog by Imelda Suriato

Typography & font tools

A fabulous compilation of typography & font tools by tripwire magazine. Good resource for designers when picking fonts for the web as well as some really useful tools for HTML & CSS developers (thank you!) to “see” the font.

I know we designers are always the picky ones: We fret over Palatino instead of Georgia, Helvetica over Arial for fonts over 14 pixels, etc., etc. Yes, even as HTML font, it’s important to fret. We’re not trying to make their life painful. Trust me, it is painful for us designers when we see fonts being abused, used interchangeably, kerning discarded, or weight distinction abandoned.

Favorite tools from the bunch:

• For Designers: Flipping Typical, The Grid System & What The Font
• For Developers: Typechart, Typetester, Fontburner & sIFR-related tools

Dow Jones Hanky…

…to wipe away your tears. The $28 handkerchief from Design Glut is a perfect present for your (possibly ex) stockbroker friends, embroidered with Dow Jones graph from 2004 to 2009. If it continues to go south, they will have to just let some strings hang loose at the edge of the cloth. 🙂

Chocolate in a tube

What a package for chocolate!

Creamy chocolate spread in a tube from Summerbird, this concoction of rich nut praline mixed with milk chocolate is squeezable in a cool silver tube, ready to spread on delicious bread.

Checkout all their products: nicely designed, consistent branding, classic with a twist.

The End is Near Robot

Adorable robot created by Philadelphia-based artist Larry West. You just want to hug him… but not too hard or he’ll fal apart right in front of your eyes.

QBN – Architecture of the Day

Exciting communal postings on QBN of cool, strange and sometimes over-indulgent structures from around the world. Go join in if you spotted anything worth adding.