#78 - Reading with a pencil

Hi Folks,

Here’s this weeks hoard of noteworthy links from around the internet…

Thought provoking #

“The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.”

—George Steiner

Reading with a pencil from Austin Kleon.

10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed from Arun Venkatesan.

Design and Code #

Why I ignore the design industry on purpose by Jonas Downey.

José Torre shares 7 Tips to design faster and why speed is important.

Select to Proceed – a guide to designing and using selection controls from Linzi Berry.

Dennis Gaebel explore the features of Firefox DevTools for CSS authors.

Typography #

Angela Riechers answers the question Are Geometric Sans Serifs Really The Best Type for On Screen Text?

CSSans Pro is a fun CSS font project by Andronache Izabela and Codrin Pavel.

NoFoundry hosts a 30-hour type design marathon.

Something to watch #

The Joy of Optimizing Images. An interesting talk by Una Kravets packed full of useful tips for keeping your image sizes small.