Articles Tagged with "Colophon"

08/01/2008: Recipes

I spent a while the other day re-arranging the old recipes on this site and moving them into the “blog” bit rather than the “articles” bit. Hopefully they’ll now be a bit easier to find. Sorry for breaking their URLs.

28/11/2007: Attention Spammers!

I get probably about 10 to 20 spam comments left on this blog every day. However, nobody ever sees them because, firstly, the most obvious spams are automatically filtered out using content scanning and IP blacklists, and secondly, the remaining messages are checked by a human moderator (i.e. me) before they appear on the site.

So spammers, your comment spam will never be seen. It’s a waste of your time and mine.

22/06/2007: A New Look for TobyInkster.co.uk

This site has had a few facelifts recently. Hopefully this one will stick. It’s based on two main principles:

Use Hoefler Text for copy. It’s an absolutely gorgeous font which comes with Mac OS X that I was recently using on a printed document. Hoefler has a delicious set of italic glyphs — they were properly designed in their own right — they’re not just sloping versions of the roman (non-italic) glyphs. It also uses ascending/descending numerals, which look a lot nicer in the normal flow of text than block numerals do. Garamond and Georgia are reasonable substitutes when it’s not available.
The Guardian (newspaper, not website) looks good; copy it! That’s where I got the idea for the small blue “TobyInkster.co.uk” heading at the top of each page.

I’ve combined this with a few other minor ideas:

Numbers and bullet points from lists hang into the margin. The last couple of versions of my site did that too.
Use classical ratios for font sizes. Assuming your browser default text is 12pt, then…

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This site is written and produced by Toby Inkster. Graphics are supposed to be slightly “art deco”, though they’re probably rubbish.

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This is the personal website for Toby Inkster. As you’re on the front page you probably want to know something about me, or find out what is here.

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Condensed life story: I was born in 1980 in Tokyo (my name in Japanese is トビ–) and raised in Sydney and Nottingham. I studied Maths & Computer Science at Imperial College and lived in leafy Ealing for 6 years before moving down to Lewes. I work as a database/software/web devloper for The National Childbirth Trust, Europe’s largest and best recognised parenting charity…

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