While less typographically interesting, this is a much clearer treatment of Elements.
I took Euclidean geometry in high school, and having a book with colors like this would have made things so much easier to grasp. The color scheme is lovely too, and really makes me consider buying the poster. If you'd have told 15 year old me that I would one day really want a Euclid poster, I'd have called you insane!
I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.
I'd rather see a normal s than the long s in the text. Seems unnecessary.
Fwiw, you can use the "Modern English" language setting to banish the long s. Reproducing Byrne's original typography is a stated goal of the author. (You can certainly debate the value of that goal.)
Perhaps I'm alone on this, but I find all the different colors and diagrams distracting rather than helpful. It feels cluttered to me.
For me it iſ the old timey eſſ that iſ moſt diſracting.
I'm slightly baffled it existed in the first place, considering they also used the small s, and it looks almost exactly like the f. To be fair, I am equally confused that so many modern typefaces don't distinguish I and l.
I ſuſpect the uſers of ye olde ſ were/are all liſping.
Yeah, why bother updating the diagrams but then do long s throughout?
A higher tech version is:
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...
While less typographically interesting, this is a much clearer treatment of Elements.
I took Euclidean geometry in high school, and having a book with colors like this would have made things so much easier to grasp. The color scheme is lovely too, and really makes me consider buying the poster. If you'd have told 15 year old me that I would one day really want a Euclid poster, I'd have called you insane!
I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.
(2018) At the time (79 points, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697567
Earlier this year (97 points, 3 months ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867018
I'd rather see a normal s than the long s in the text. Seems unnecessary.
Fwiw, you can use the "Modern English" language setting to banish the long s. Reproducing Byrne's original typography is a stated goal of the author. (You can certainly debate the value of that goal.)
Perhaps I'm alone on this, but I find all the different colors and diagrams distracting rather than helpful. It feels cluttered to me.
For me it iſ the old timey eſſ that iſ moſt diſracting.
I'm slightly baffled it existed in the first place, considering they also used the small s, and it looks almost exactly like the f. To be fair, I am equally confused that so many modern typefaces don't distinguish I and l.
I ſuſpect the uſers of ye olde ſ were/are all liſping.
Yeah, why bother updating the diagrams but then do long s throughout?