This collection of news chum has to do with typography and words:
- Practical Typography. Here’s an online book about practical typography. What I find interesting is that it shows the value of different fonts, and especially, why some fonts work OK on the screen but not on the printed page.
- Old Typography. Here’s an interesting tumblr with loads of interesting old typography.
- Who vs. Whom. Ever been confused on when to use “whom” vs. “who”? Go forth, and be confused no more.
- Hawaiian. This is a collection of facts about Hawai’i, but I found the first few about the Hawaiian language, particularly interesting. Perhaps next year, at this time, we’ll be in Hawaii.
Have fun in Hawai’i. I’d actually suggest more January than August. Among other things, that’s when the humpbacks are in Hawai’ian waters.
We’re not going this year. I have a two-week timeshare at the Whaler in Kaanapali that starts 8/22 and ends 9/2 (or something like that). We haven’t been able to use it for a number of years due to school start dates (so we’ve done interval exchange — we’re about to go down to Escondido for a week). This year we were going to use it, but the fares never dropped below 600 per person round trip, and that just wasn’t in the budget. Perhaps next year.