MNteractive

Haven’t had a Friday link-dump in a while. Here ya go:

Type:

St. Paul…er…New Hope…er…UK based Process Type Foundry (Eric Olson) has a new typeface out called Seravek.

Portugal Based DSType Foundry (Dino dos Santos) is having a half-off summer sale. Dino has some great faces that are already affordably priced. Half off is going to make it hard not to resist purchasing a few of these…

Architecture:

Building Minnesota is a MN-centric architecture blog written by Todd Melby that I came across via the AIA MN’s Blog.

Shopping:

Have you been through Target all summer eying that nice looking modern plywood toddler two-wheeler for $50 for your 3 year old? It went on sale last week for $25. Go grab one. Link? For some inexplicable reason, Target isn’t selling their own Target branded outdoor toys online.

CSS grid-based layout frameworks:

At work here, we recently had a consulting firm deliver us a prototype for a new intranet. They built the site using pure CSS-P which is great, and then I noticed that they decided to use the Yahoo CSS framework. We have the daunting task of somehow getting this inside of SharePoint, which may or may not work as-is, but I am going to be interested in how easy it is to work with Yahoo’s prebuilt CSS framework. Seems that the biggest complaint about them is a lack of semantic labeling, which is to be expected if the framework is to work as a generic platform. Blueprint is another grid-based CSS framework that has been making the rounds this week which is also being compared to the aptly named Yet Another Multicolumn Layout CSS framework. I hope to take a closer look at these options soon. If you’ve used them, please share your thoughts.