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“ The mission of the Fonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity, is to allow wider use of fonts on the Web by identifying a font format that can be supported by all user agents, balancing font vendor concerns with the needs of authors and users and the simplicity of implementation.

— Fonts Working Group charter

“ Last night a Baseline Grid saved my life

— Ben Terrett on designing Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008

“ A journey that long almost makes it a day out, albeit a day out where you spend most of the day underground and very unhappy. It’s the equivalent of me sitting in Oxford and saying “I think I’ll just pop to London Paddington for a coffee”, and to get there I have to go via a working tin mine.

— Paul Haine on travelling by tube across London in search of a non-family friendly coffee shop

“ we need to get Britain talking about UX if we want the UX field to be talking about Britain

— Cennydd Bowles on Complex inferiority: user experience in the UK

“ The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.

— John Gruber on getting paid to blog

“ Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

— Steve Jobs on ‘design’ in the New York Times

“ It’s difficult to go around being aloof and cynical when you look exactly the same and act exactly the same way as everyone else. I caught myself contemplating buying a top hat the other day, just to mix things up a little, but my heart wasn’t really in it.

— Joeblade on living in Highbury

“ I wanted to put together a presentation that could really illustrate my three pillars of web Typography “legibility, hierarchy, and expression” and disprove the idea that typography is just what font you pick.

— Samantha Warren

“ The performance is a tribute to lavish and well-directed spending on IT.

— The Guardian on Ocado

“ After doing a market survey and discovering that their target customers thought that Concorde was more expensive than it actually was, BA progressively raised prices to match these perceptions. It is reported that BA then ran Concorde at a profit.

— Concorde in Wikipedia

“ Cheese is real, and so it seems, is the pleasure of the text

— Stephen Fry in Don’t Mind Your Language…

“ He says that when people treat their web sites like buildings, when they treat them as something to visit, then they become static and end up not worth visiting. It’s like a museum you’ve been to before…it gets old pretty quick if the exhibits don’t change. But when people treat web sites like an environment, an ecosystem where human activity occurs, then people come and participate when they need to do the activity, your architecture being a place to do things as opposed to something to look at or experience.

— Josh Porter on The Live Web

“ I’m Googleable. I’m making my thoughts tangible. Blogging has helped me to understand my job better, and it’s helped me to understand the whole industry better. Thinking, understanding, writing, sharing are all good things. I would encourage every single person to have a blog. […] Life is fleeting. Publish!!

— Rebecca Cottrell on entering the industry and blogging

“ In typography neither the old style nor the new style matters; quality does.

— from Jan Tschichold in Change of Heart by Jason Santa Maria

“ You could gargle bitumen and bin-juice for half an hour, and it couldn’t leave a nastier taste in your mouth than this macho action thriller

— Peter Bradshaw reviews Wanted