• 10 inventions that owe their success to World War One
  Including daylight saving, teabags and zips.
  with miscellany
• 1001 Free Fonts
  
  1001 Free Fonts offers a huge selection of free fonts. Download free fonts for Windows and Macintosh. License fonts for commercial use.
  1001 buy calligraphy cool dingbats download downloadable english font fonts free handwriting mac old photoshop signature truety
  with typography
• 113 Countries from Above
  Photographs from Yann Arthus-Bertrand's 'Earth from Above' project.
  with image-galleries
• 1921 fact checker
  xkcd
  with humour
• 2dSearch
  "2Dsearch is a radical alternative to conventional 'advanced search'. Instead of entering Boolean strings into one-dimensional search boxes, queries are formulated by manipulating objects on a two-dimensional canvas. This eliminates syntax errors, makes the query semantics more transparent, and offers new ways to collaborate, share, and optimize search strategies and best practices."
  with computers-and-it
• 3 simple ways to improve low resolution images (and typography)
  with photography
• 37 Granton Park Avenue, former Madelvic Works...
  Historic Scotland listed building report
  with buildings-and-architecture edinburgh
• 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy
  BBC World Service, all episodes.
  with miscellany
• 58 color found slides show everyday life of Edinburgh in the 1950s
  with edinburgh image-galleries
• A brief history of electronic document and records management systems and related standards
  with records-management
• A framework for brainstorming products
  Introduction to User Story Mapping (USM).
  with management-and-productivity
• A Grammar of Colouring
  "A compilation of the 1800s chemist, George Field, intended to give decorative artists information on the origin, composition and properties of various pigments, dyes and paints." Downloadable PDF.
  with art-and-design colour
• A guide to Edinburgh’s popular observatory
  History of the City Observatory, by Astronomical Society of Edinburgh.
  with buildings-and-architecture edinburgh william-peck
• A history of Library Hand
  "Library hand, a specific style of handwriting, was once a highly-sought and praised manner of lettering and spacing..."
  with library-management
• A Journey to Edenborough in Scotland
  "...written in 1705 by Joseph Taylor, an English barrister and later Member of Parliament. Accompanied by several acquaintances, he set off from London on 2 August 1705 and intended to reach the northern parts of England and eventually reach Edinburgh."
  with edinburgh history
• A Quick Guide to Sans-Serif Fonts
  "The first documented usage of sans-serif type was in 1723, by Scottish scholar Thomas Dempster, in his book De Etruria regali libri VII." [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/mp49cm/44NLS_ALMA21544162790004341]
  with typography
• A Quick Guide to Serif Fonts
  An overview of various categories of serf typeface.
  with typography
• A Roman marching camp in Ayr
  Archaeological description of camp discovered during preparations for construction of new Ayr Academy.
  with ayr history
• A simple web developer's guide to color
  "...in this article, you won’t see a single color wheel. Instead I’m going to show you a simple color workflow that you can use in your next web project."
  with art-and-design colour
• A Sketch of the Universe : The artistic influence of D'Arcy Thompson
  "D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) was a pioneering Scottish biologist whose work had a profound impact on 20th century art."
  with art-and-design

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