The past four years (2007-2011) much of my energy and capital has been focused into building the Mugtug graphics suite; Sketchpad, Darkroom and Lightbox. The suite has come a long way since I developed Sketchpad during a seven month work binge of Red-Bulls! Through the collaboration of many developers we’ve moved forwards to create an entire(…)
Typography
HTML5: Typographic Effects
HTML5 Rocks is a website that helps inspire developers and teach how to implement those shiny new HTML5 features in real world examples. They recently asked me to write an article for their website. Working on a project for Google was inspiring (even if there was no pay involved)! … Neon Rainbow Jitter; … Sleek Zebra (inspired by WebDesignerWall);(…)
HTML5: Unicode Profiling Project
The Unicode Profiling Project was designed to gather statistics on unicode support across systems. The software checks each symbol in your systems Unicode catalog (65,535 glyphs) to see which are visible on your computer using <canvas> and Javascript. The data generated from your computer will help profile the state of unicode support on the web. Your computers unicode(…)
HTML5: Font Detection
So you want to detect fonts in a HTML5 webapp? Presenting a fast-native solution for accurately detecting fonts installed on your system — this demo utilizes Javascript and the <canvas> tag and requires a browser that supports ctx.fillFont(), and ctx.getImageData() — including Chrome, Firefox, IE9, Opera and Safari. This plugin would make sense a website such as TypeTester(…)