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Form and feeling

Christopher Alexander, The Process of Creating Life:

You know the feeling which the thing will have. But you do not yet know the form. In fact, you keep having to change the form, because as the work unfolds, you find out many, many details which have the wrong feeling, which do not function, in response to the whole, as you thought they would. Because you keep the feeling constant, you have to

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	A Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces 3.51 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tim Brown wrote a new blog post Form and feeling Christopher Alexander, The Process of Creating Life: You know the feeling which the thing will have. But you do not yet know the form. In fact, you ke Read more of this blog post »
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Tim Brown liked Xavier's review of Flexible Typesetting: "Si bien se adentra en cosas muy, muy técnicas del HTML/CSS que distraen un poco del tema, siento que es un buen libro con buenos insights de cómo trabajar con tipografía en la web."
Oct 27, 2024 08:12PM · see review
Tim Brown liked Josh Kinal's review of Flexible Typesetting: "This book blew my mind several times. There's so much possibility with type on digital devices and the web in particular. Flexible typesetting got me out of the habit of thinking that the type is as it appears and that we have available to us all the" Read more of this review »
Oct 27, 2024 08:12PM · see review
Tim Brown liked Kivilcim Kokbil's review of Flexible Typesetting: "While I was reading, I thought Tim teaching us a sophisticated language. The idea of expressing your thoughts about every typographic decision in a structured manner is brilliant. I think it is a common problem not being able to expressing our ration" Read more of this review »
Oct 27, 2024 08:12PM · see review