Damian’s notes

Spicy Sections is a web component that takes sections and can display them as tabs or detail/summary depending on screen size.

It’s developed as part of explorations in Open UI, to get an idea of how a future ‘tabs’ element should be designed.

inspire.js is a nifty HTML + CSS + JavaScript framework for making slide decks for presentations

Fictional brands archive: a table of information about brands of companies and institutions in films, games, and animation, originating as a master’s thesis in brand design.

A tool for measuring contrast value Lᶜ as proposed for WCAG 3. The Lᶜ value (written with upper case L with lower case c superscript) is intended to be a better match for how the human eye perceives contrast in light-on-dark displays and dark colours generally than the relative luminance calculation used by WCAG 2.1.

Braggoscope, an unofficial index of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg interviews three subject experts on an amazing range of topics. Organized by Dewey Decimal category and guests.

The Street Design Manual of Oslo, translated into English (PDF). As well as trying to make their city more navigable on foot, by cycle and by wheelchair, it has a lot to say about trees, snow storage, and stormwater management.

Of interest to active-travel promoters in English-speaking countries.

Specimen Books of Metal & Wood Type is a catalogue of digitized typeface specimens available online from various institutions. I didn’t know there were specimens dating as far back as 1567!

Digital Benin is a digital database of thousands of objects collectively known as the Benin Bronzes, looted from the Kingdom of Benin (now in Nigeria) in the 19th century, combining information from 100 museums.

Reasonable Colors is a set of CSS colours that make it easier to choose combinations with a contrast ratio satisfying WCAG 2.0