Category Archives: Design

BICEP Cookies

Earlier this week, this year’s BICEP / Keck collaboration meeting was held at Harvard (we build, operate, and analyze data from cosmic microwave background telescopes installed at the South Pole). As a collaboration member at the host institution, I decided … Continue reading

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An Improved CMB Map Colormap

Although a variety of colormaps have previously been specifically developed for displaying cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps, none of these have been designed with perceptual uniformity or color-vision-deficiency (CVD) accessibility in mind. To improve upon this status quo, in support … Continue reading

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Pre-calculated Line Breaks for HTML / CSS

Although slowly improving, typography on the web pages is considerably lower quality than that of high-quality print / PDF typography, such as that produced by LaTeX or Adobe InDesign. In particular, line breaks and hyphenation need considerable improvement. While CSS … Continue reading

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A Case Study in Product Label Regressions

Sometime last year, the Shop & Shop and Giant (of Landover) grocery store chains began introducing redesigned packaging for their store brand products. The two chains share a parent company and share branding, so the labels only use the shared … Continue reading

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Color Cycle Survey Update

Since my last update on the Color Cycle Survey, there have been no drastic changes, but responses have continued to trickle in. There are now ~13.7k total responses, with ~6k responses each for the six color and eight color components. … Continue reading

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