The semi-(in)frequent musings of David Kaneda, maker of Boo.
Hoefler & Co. has released Operator, their first take on a monospace font, and it looks fantastic. It’s full of character, especially with its playful, but still readable, set of italics. I’ll probably set this up over the weekend in Terminal and Sublime Text.
Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting.
Impressive. As far as I know, it’s the first programming font that’s built to serve a mixture of serif and sans-serif as style differentiators within code.
CodePen is becoming a fantastic tool for showing off bits of code, testing changes, and exploring others’ code. CodePen Pro looks to be an excellent addition to the service with a slew of new features.
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships.
While the scheme as obviously been tested and very thoroughly thought-out, it doesn’t quite have the contrast/pop I like. Still very much worth noting and looking at for all of the color theory applied. If you do happen to fancy it, here’s a Textmate theme.
“All the code that’s fit to printf()”
A few code libraries used at the New York Times, openly released.
jQuery plugin for “j/k” previous/next key commands (as well as some others) on GitHub.
