I can’t really speak to whether their findings will help anyone chop onions better (I feel attacked that they discourage the horizontal slicing technique, my preferred way of getting tiny dices before my eyes start watering up), but look at this web design! A custom onion web font, onion handles for the toggle switch UI elements, scrollbars that look onion-y if you have translucent scrollbars — they committed to the bit and nailed it.
Tag: web typography
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The Pudding: Dicing an Onion the Mathematically Optimal Way
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Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography
From the files of things I don’t know much about: best practices for Japanese web typography, a nice short primer. Web fonts are problematic enough in the West, and we don’t even have the character set troubles introduced by having multiple alphabets, the huge glyph set and calligraphic history of kanji, the need to be interspersed with Latin characters and ruby characters…