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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
Posted in Design, Miscellaneous Tagged canned vegetables, design, Giant, labels, Stop & Shop Leave a comment
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
Posted in Design, Research Tagged color, color blindness, color cycle, color set, color vision deficiency, machine learning, neural network Leave a comment
Figure Caption Color Indicators
Earlier this year, I became aware of a feature in GitHub-flavored Markdown that displays a colored square inline when HTML color codes are surrounded by backticks, e.g., #1f77b4. Although I only recently became aware of this feature, it dates back … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Research Tagged annotations, color, color blindness, color vision deficiency, figure captions, scientific literature Leave a comment
Discernibility of (Rainbow) Colormaps
Earlier this month, the Turbo rainbow colormap was released and publicized on the Google AI Blog. This colormap attempts to mitigate the banding issues in the existing Jet rainbow colormap, while retaining the advantages of its high contrast; note that … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Miscellaneous Tagged color, color blindness, color vision deficiency, colormap, Jet, Turbo Leave a comment