Managing typefaces on computers has always been difficult. This month, support for the font management tool I have used for many years, FontExplorer X, was…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Managing typefaces on computers has always been difficult. This month, support for the font management tool I have used for many years, FontExplorer X, was…
I used to consider software development one of the few careers, outside librarians and medical examiners, surely insulated from the extroverts too often in charge…
Learning Management System (LMS) design must address the needs of three (or more) user audiences, including: teachers, students, administrators, and sometimes guardians. Blackboard dominates the…
Workbook publishers, you have made my life difficult as a homeschooling parent. We purchase perforated workbooks so we can remove pages and give them one…
As the co-editor of Type Matters, along with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, I argue that font designs are semiotic communication. Typefaces accrue meaning through their historical uses…
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
The letter forms we use to communicate words convey meaning, enhancing a text. Dot-Font, John D. Berry’s long-running blog, also exists as two books. The…
Asked to summarize my research projects… Curiously, beyond the theses and dissertation, all my work is in the economics of media and narrative. I ask…