I've long been a fan of Edward Tufte's work. I'm also a fan of old-style serif fonts, such as Bembo.

I happened across the R Studio Tufte Handout Style yesterday, and I was im­me­di­ate­ly struck by how much it resembles Tufte's books. It uses Tufte CSS and the open-source Tufte Book Font. ETBook is a “computer version” of Bembo that Tufte con­struct­ed for the more recent editions of his books, sup­plant­i­ng the lead type of the earlier editions.

I've adapted this blog's stylesheet to use ETBook and some of the other settings from tufte.css. It's not completely faithful; e.g., headings are bold, not italic.

Mis­cel­la­neous links.

• Do you see the subliminal arrow in the negative space of the FedEx logo at right? Neither did I until I read about it at Edward Tufte's joint. Now I can't stop seeing it.

• One more year to go until the next pres­i­den­tial in­au­gu­ra­tion on 2009/01/20. Who knows how much more damage Bush can pull off by then? Stick­er­Giant.com has com­mem­o­ra­tive swag.

• Im­peach­ment is in the air. Watch Rep. Wexler's speech before the U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Read about State Sen. Oemig's hearing in the Washington Leg­is­la­ture.

• Three days ago, I was sent email by Draft­Bloomberg.com, asking me to sign a petition to draft Mike Bloomberg as an in­de­pen­dent candidate for President. I …continue.