Some links that might be of interest to readers, that I’m not going to write a whole post about but also don’t want to just sit on.
Theme Ideas
Multi-Stroke Text Effect
I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS
text-strokeproperty, but the results never quite matched. Becausetext-strokeaccepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn’t seem to work.One evening late last year, I was eager to give it another shot after seeing the text effect again in the book Graphic Japan : from woodblock and zen to manga and kawaii.
Why were so many control rooms sea foam green?
What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green, …
Ascending into the Realm of Japanese Charts
At a certain point, I was no longer finding books. I was discovering a world: chart-rich, prewar, often beautiful, and in some cases likely never before shelved in this hemisphere.
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Mystic Symbolic Cluster
