It really wasn’t designed for small sizes on screens. Words like milliliter can be very difficult to decipher. If you ever had to read or write a password with 1, i, l or I, you know the problem. That little comparison below is also available from the download page.

If you cook recipes from a US cookbook, you need to use measurements that seem archaic to a metrified European like myself. They use cups for liquid measurements. US fluid ounces are different from UK fluid ounces, but that is another story. I made a conversion chart for our kitchen, listing cups, tablespoons (which they like to abbreviate as TBSP), teaspoons (TSP) and milliliters. Europeans know that one of the advantages of the metric system is the fact that liquid measurements follow the same standard as those for other substances. Thus, a liter of water (i. e. 1000 milliliters) weighs 1 kilogram (i. e. 1000 grams). I’m using US spelling here, UK English would be litre and kilogramme.

I made a pdf which you’ll find in the download portion of this blog, so you can download it, print it out and stick it to you fridge door or wherever else you wish. Magnets cannot be downloaded over the internet yet.

A bunch of old guys on stage in New York: Roger Black, Matthew Carter, Paul Shaw and Erik Spiekermann. Moderated by Maxim Zhukov.

FF MetaSerif Pro: characterset runs to 5 pages now with Cyrillic et al: bit.ly/zwavJI

— erik spiekermann (@espiekermann) January 18, 2012

Our bookshelves in Berlin run over two floors. The only way to get to them is by using a harness.

If you – like me – have more than one book and never know how to arrange them, watch this movie. It was made by the owners of Type bookstore in Toronto.

Creative Arte TV gave me 8 minutes to draw my ideal studio space. For those of you who have already commented on the practical issues, like where the daylight might come from and where the toilets are: this is an idea, not a plan.