This is the archive of jontangerine.com version one, made in 2006, launched in 2007, and active until 2012. It’s archived to preserve the original design and its content that was referenced in multiple posts, books and galleries. There’s a holding page before the new site arrives.
Pith & pulp — not an image, but perhaps a reversion to type.
Nena, 1991→ More
Hello, I’m Jon Tan, a designer, typographer and co-founder of Fontdeck. I run and work from Mild Bunch HQ in Bristol, UK.
I’m pleased to be able to say that Analog is joining forces with Fictive Kin! We already work together on Brooklyn Beta…
In 2003, my wife Lowri and I went to a christening party. We were friends of the hosts but we knew almost no-one else…
The first Ampersand web typography conference took place in Brighton last Friday. Ampersand was ace. I’m going to say…
Wow, this has been a busy period. I’m just back from the Ampersand web typography conference in Brighton, and having a…
Stories are everywhere. When they don’t exist we make up the narrative — we join the dots. We make…
You can browse all entries in full via the log archive →
The Magic Behind Type. 10–12 Jun 2014 in Leiden, The Netherlands..
(TBD). 24 Sep 2014 at G Live, Guildford, UK..
The Magic Behind Type. 27–29 Oct 2014 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA..
Big Type, Little Type. 18–22 May 2013 at Marriot Marguis and Marina, San Diego, USA.
Big Type, Little Type. 18–20 Feb 2013 at InterContinental, Atlanta, USA.
Big Type, Little Type. 23–25 Jan 2013 at The Albert Hall, Nottingham, UK.
Big Type, Little Type. 12–14 Nov 2012 at The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, USA.
A quick discourse on single versus double quotations marks (or inverted commas for us prosiac Brits) and typographic texture.
The many styles of the humble paragraph from pre-history to the Web, with practical examples using CSS.
What is an “em”? Using ems to create an elastic layout with scalable images. Also in Italiano, Deutsch, Español & Russian.
The status of the core web fonts and the font-face property with a few thoughts on making quality faces ubiquitous.
Exploring optimal anti-aliasing for core Web fonts and the rendering engines that make it all possible.
Live the questions and one day grow into the answers.
This simple dish was created with a little xHTML, a dash of CSS and a pinch of PHP. It’s garnished with hAtom, hCalendar, XFN, hCard and rel-tag with a large slice of accessible intent. Hopefully it plays nicely, all the time.
Remarks from the Log
By pixelangry in We, Who Are Web Designers:
By George in Copywriting, Experience Design, Daleks & Julio:
By Martins in Typeface != Font:
By DarkStar in Smoothing out the Creases in Web Fonts:
By Martin Varesio in Ampersand, the Aftermath:
By Steve Blakeborough in Display Type & the Raster Wars: