Category Archives: Design

BICEP Cookies

Posted on July 22, 2023

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

Posted on May 8, 2023

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

Posted on May 25, 2020

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

Posted on March 29, 2020

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

Posted on January 31, 2020

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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