Блоги: заметки с тегом standards

Typeface minimalism

Robert — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:02:22 +0500

Robert:

Familiar typefaces can help read quicker.

That’s why I’m trying to reduce the amount of typefaces around me to just a few:

JetBrains Mono for code and the command line,
Atkinson Hyperlegible for my Latin-alphabet projects,
Garamond for books,
my handwriting,
San Francisco for nearly everything else.

Alas, many items around me use other typefaces.

Permanent summer time

Robert — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:42:54 +0500

Robert:

European clocks will be dialled forward by one hour tonight. This clock-switching ritual is not just pointless, but also deadly: heart attacks rise by about 24% in the days after the spring forward. Let tonight be the last time that it ever happens (and not because we end up in a nuclear holocaust).

In any case, it is best to focus on natural rhythms — like heartbeats, sleepiness, the sun’s position, and outdoor brightness — instead of paying heed to the clock time. Alarm clocks destroy sleep quality by agitating the body into overriding its ideals; I’ve actually had a nightmare about having to wake up to one.

Light switches

Robert — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:15:18 +0500

Robert:

Light switches should always be inside the room that the lights are being switched in. Letting outsiders interfere in internal affairs is never a good idea.

Bus doors

Robert — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:41:04 +0500

Robert:

Bus doors should always open outwards. It’s just logic: inwards-opening doors take up space that could otherwise be filled by passengers.

A better abbreviation for sine & cosine

Robert — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:35:25 +0500

Robert:

For some weird reason the abbreviation for sine is sin and cos for cosine. This is madness compared to the beautiful and logical abbreviation for tangent and cotangent: tg and ctg respectively.

My proposal:

sine	si
cosine	csi
tangent	tg
cotangent	ctg

Quite obviously, I submitted them to my local ISO representative for review.