a warm gun is the personal web site of multimedia artist and resident geek Ian Adams, based out of Seattle, WA. The page you’re seeing shows all posts in the “Typography” category.
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Admittedly, a favourite activity of mine is what I like to call “font spotting”. Basically, it’s trying to identify fonts that I see in my day to day life. On web pages, it’s usually pretty easy, because you can just look at the CSS to see what font is being assigned.
Well, the realign/redesign is going pretty well, but I just wanted to write a quick note about this utility I just discovered called TextSoap. As the site will tell you, “TextSoap is a utility that makes it easy to clean out the annoying forwarding marks, invisible characters, and formatting that you often find in email and long documents.” The brilliance of this is that it’s one of those applications that you never knew you needed. It comes with plug-ins for a slew of text editors and email clients, Automator support, and (my personal favourite) it’s Service-aware!
It’s $25 shareware, runs on Mac OS X 10.3+ (yes, that means it works on Tiger, too), and is really quite handy if you work with text a lot like I do. So check it out!
