Typography

6 Jan 2012

Are you a tour, or a type? (Sorry, that's not what I meant.) By your talk or a type? (No, not even close.) Are you a talker or a tighter?

Printer keeps pressing on in the old-fashioned way

28 Aug 2011

The moment you step into the Happy Printing shop on Pok Man Street, you are transported back in time.

Four large hand-powered printing presses dominate the room with ink-soaked rags...

English fan takes XXX approach to teaching ABCs

13 Feb 2011

David Tung Tak-wai really does have proper manners - although people who read his book might not know that.

Dash Ahead shows there is still life in his old legs

28 Dec 2009

Evergreen Dash Ahead will turn nine in a few days, but that didn't stop the gelding appreciating a change of pace to land the sixth win of his lengthy career in the Luk Wu Handicap.

Mark these words

11 Nov 2009

Mark it down

What sort of marks are these?

1 a black mark

a. something bad you have done or a bad quality that affects the way people think about you

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Blogs are great - if we avoid slang

Writing blogs has become a mania which has swept all walks of life, all over the world. A lot of teenagers write what happened that day on their blog instead of in a diary.

Pilcrow

by Adam Mars-Jones

Faber and Faber

HK$128

fonts

Characters

A font is a style of writing the letters in the alphabet - or Chinese characters. Fonts should really be called typefaces. But most people today just say font.

Now you'll know where that little apostrophe needs to go

The Girl's Like Spaghetti

By Lynne Truss

Published by Profile Books

ISBN 978 186197 168 5

My new neighbour's daughter is really tall and...

Helvetica

Starring: Michael C. Place, Paula Scher, Matthew Carter and David Carson

Director: Gary Hustwit

The film: If you're familiar with the phrase '...

A better, brighter Sunday read

Last Monday your SCMP took on a new look, and today the Sunday Morning Post follows suit. Nothing drastic, but a sleeker and clearer look to make your reading experience more engaging and...