Array(16).join( ‘hero’-1) + “Batman”;

NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNBatman

(This javascript joke is courtesy of codecademy.com.)

From Batman #84, June 1954, "Ten Nights of Fear!" page 24, panel 1. Pencils by Sheldon Moldoff, inks by Charles Paris.

 

Posted in Amusement, Cleverness & Wit, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Technical Geekery

Free Icons for V-Day

(Thanks Cuberto!)

Posted in Amusement, Stock

Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery!

While CSS3 allows us to rotate letters, it is quite complicated to arrange each letter along a curved path. Arctext.js is a jQuery plugin that let’s you do exactly that. Based on Lettering.js, it calculates the right rotation of each letter and distributes the letters equally across the imaginary arc of the given radius.

Check it out: here!
Learn more: here!
Get the code: here!

 

Posted in Amusement, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Stock, Technical Geekery, Typography, Vocation & Profession, Web

The Grace of Garamond

Download, Gaptown, the slightly better alternative to Comic Sans: here or here.

To learn more about type, go here. To learn more about the scourge of Comic Sans please visit BanComicSans.com, ComicSansCriminal.org or the BBC.

(Thanks Andreas!)

Posted in Design Ethics, Actions & Impact, Repost From Cited Source, Typography

Primary Colors

Posted in Amusement, Cleverness & Wit, Color Theory, Fiddling & Time Wasters