commonSans is a nice, soft, warm, weird, fun, good, and bad typeface. It is inspired by the ink-spreading phenomenon found on mass-produced products: expiration dates, prices, capacity labels, all kinds of practical information printed on eggs, bread clips, electric capacitors, and the surface of most things around us.
It's a feature, not a bug
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The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height, and is expressed with two numbers separated by a colon, such as 16:9, sixteen-to-nine. For the x:y aspect ratio, the image is x units wide and y units high. Common aspect ratios are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 in cinematography, 4:3 and 16:9 in television photography, and 3:2 in still photography. The common film aspect ratios used in cinemas are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1. Two common videographic aspect ratios are 4:3 (1.3:1), the universal video format of the 20th century, and 16:9 (1.7:1), universal for high-definition television and European digital television. Other cinema and video aspect ratios exist, but are used infrequently. In still camera photography, the most common aspect ratios are 4:3, 3:2, and more recently found in consumer cameras, 16:9. Other aspect ratios, such as 5:3, 5:4, and 1:1 (square format), are used in photography as well, particularly in medium format and large format. With television, DVD and Blu-ray Disc, converting formats of unequal ratios is achieved by enlarging the original image to fill the receiving format’s display area and cutting off any excess picture information (zooming and cropping), by adding horizontal mattes (letterboxing) or vertical mattes (pillarboxing) to retain the original format’s aspect ratio, by stretching (hence distorting) the image to fill the receiving format’s ratio, or by scaling by different factors in both directions, possibly scaling by a different factor in the center and at the edges (as in Wide Zoom mode). In motion picture formats, the physical size of the film area between the sprocket perforations determines the image’s size. The universal standard (established by William Dickson and Thomas Edison in 1892) is a frame that is four perforations high. The film itself is 35 mm wide (1.38 in), but the area …
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Song Dynasty Sad Boy Can Use More Ice Cream Tonight
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You Friend The Rat (Remy)
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My Relatives Saw Me Eating in Yoshinoya
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is the glow that remains after a light has gone
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for example after the sun has gone down
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You can refer to the good feeling or effects that remain after an event as the afterglow.
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Mais qu'est-ce que tu fais là?
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I Left My Heart Strings near San Francisco
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Franc Hlapić smješta ključ od gvožđa uz džbunje.
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The wind sighed. The room was draughty. The doors did not fit, nor the windows. Now and then a ripple, like a reptile, ran under the carpet. On the carpet lay panels of green and yellow, where the sun rested, and then the sun moved and pointed a finger as if in mockery at a hole in the carpet and stopped. And then on it went, the sun's feeble but impartial finger, and lay upon the coat of arms over the fireplace--gently illumined--the shield, the pendant grapes, the mermaid, and the spears. Miss Antonia looked up as the light strengthened. Vast lands, so they said, the old people had owned--her forefathers--the Rashleighs. Over there. Up the Amazons. Freebooter. Voyagers. Sacks of emeralds. Nosing round the island. Taking captives. Maidens. There she was, all scales from the tail to the waist. Miss Antonia grinned. Down struck the finger of the sun and her eye went with it. Now it rested on a silver frame; on a photograph; on an egg-shaped baldish head, on a lip that stuck out under the moustache; and the name "Edward" written with a flourish beneath.
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De la petite taupe qui voulait savoir qui lui avait fait sur la tête
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Ivy Pochoda, née le 22 janvier 1977 à Philadelphie, est une romancière et nouvelliste américaine. Elle est également une ancienne joueuse professionnelle de squash, atteignant en mars 1999 la 38 place au classement mondial. Ivy Pochoda grandit à Brooklyn et fait ses études à l'université Harvard où elle obtient en 1998 un BA en littérature grecque classique et anglaise. Elle obtient également en 2011 un MFA en écriture au Bennington College. Après sa carrière de squash, son premier roman est publié en 2009. Elle reçoit plusieurs distinctions pour son activité littéraire. Mariée au cinéaste et scénariste Justin Nowell, elle vit à Los Angeles. De 1999 à 2006, Ivy Pochoda joue dans le WSA World Tour, atteignant la 38 place au classement mondial en mars 2000. Avec l'équipe nationale américaine, elle participe aux championnats du monde par équipes en 1998, 2000 et 2006. En 2001, 2002 et 2008, elle atteint la demi-finale des championnats nationaux. Elle joue également pour l'équipe universitaire de Harvard et remporte plusieurs titres dans le sport universitaire.
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The audacity is almost impressive.
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Audrey, About the Landscape
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What a Mafia Leader Would Say (Joanna Wang)
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She said that she dreamt of her friend in primary school
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Don’t Put Your Winter Clothes in the Closet
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About commonSans's designer
Xiaoyuan Gao (She/Her) is a Rotterdam-based freelance graphic designer, image-maker, type designer and the initiator of notyourtypefoundry. While experimenting with unconventional approaches to type design and typesetting, she sees type design as a tool making process.