This Chrome Extension Will Change Your Life: WhatFont Tool

Nevermind the infinite pursuit for the perfect web types, the hunt to even know what font is used on that beautiful one-in-couple-hundreds-you-stumble-upon is even harder.

It's like that paradigm where the most fundamental step gets skipped when giving help to others and instead you learn the most difficult step in a painstakingly meticulous way. For instance, when teaching how to write an essay to fifth graders (or do you learn this in sixth?), teachers tend to explain what a paragraph is like this: "A multi-sentence structure where they serve together to talk about one topic. They're indented and look like this. Seen them before right? Okay. Now let's move on to writing the thesis." And we all know how awfully difficult it is to formulate that perfect thesis; you don't even know what the true meaning/purpose of a thesis is until like three years after you start writing the dreaded 5-paragraph essays. And maybe you don't even know how to correctly pronounce the word, haha. Yet this topic of writing the perfect thesis is broken down into steps and drilled into you every single time the teacher assigns an essay assignment.

But the sad part is... When you get your essay handed back... All of the red comments are on errors regarding paragraphs: how the paragraphs were split wrongly; the paragraphs are missing the topic sentence; or the paragraph transitions are clunky. UHHHHHHH. Dear teacher, you NEVER taught me how to write a goddamn paragraph.

Same deal here. There's a ton of materials and resources on how to pair web font groups and which work the best and where to go (eg. Google Fonts), but no quick-and-easy, two-step process to find out what font is what...

...Ladies and gentlemen, meet WHATFONT TOOL!!!!!!! 

Download the Chrome extension HERE and then FONT AWAY!!!!!! It's FREE!!!!! (#wtfmoment) I believe that there is also a version for Safari if you click HERE. 

You just turn on the WhatFont tool, and then hover over any thing to know which font it is. Then you can CLICK on it to open up the box to know more details (like PIXEL SIZES and LINE HEIGHT!!!!!!! and even WEB COLOUR CODE) as so: 

I will now proceed to tweet Chengyin Liu to thank him for such an awesome tool. You can, too. Let's show gratitude... Also click the link if you are curious (like me) of how this holy WhatFont tool guy looks like... cuz you know that's not creepy at all........

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...And let the weekend begin!

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Frances Ha

I watched this in the beginning of my vacation... So about the end of April. Frances Ha is a film that is recognized, but most likely not enough.

Directed by Noah Baumbach (known for work with The Squid and the Whale, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), and also written by him and the leading actress, Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha follows Frances, a woman in her late 20's trying to make her career work out in NYC while juggling self-loss, self-finding, friends, and acquaintances. The outwardly pressure of the society combined with raw explication of internal struggles that are not faltered by aesthetics makes Frances Ha one of the most captivating films I've watched recently.

Yes, it is a comedy, but maybe because I am also a somewhat-lost-trying-to-do-the-right-stuff-girl-in-her-twenties, this drama hits the emotional home run. I see my vices and habits of non-productivity and envy within Frances, plus I also see other positive attributes I know I encompass and the guaranteed reward that ultimately comes about for all of us that strive.

Trailer:

As you can see, the entire movie is in black and white. However, it is a little bit more modern... Consider the movie to be in a permanent Instagram-like, beautifully filtered black and white. Not only does this characteristically sets the film apart from the others, but the lack of colour aids the viewer to carefully follow the screenplay and the unconcealed expressions of the actors' faces to further delve into the emotions they are to convey. The screenplay is another story. It is just so delightful. I do not remember the soundtrack, but the quotes!

"Sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it."
- Frances

"Don't treat me like a three-hour brunch friend!"
- Frances

"I'm poor."
"That's actually offensive to poor people."
- Frances & Benji

"It's just this apartment is very... aware of itself."
- Sophie

..........And the recurring "undateable" chats between Benji and Frances!!!

"Are you still undateable?"

"Oh yes, very undateable."

To top it all off, Adam Driver is in this movie. And we all know that this guy has an irresistible charm even though he is SO unattractive. I can't get enough of him! His face! His voice! His next upcoming movie to hit the theatres is Tracks with Mia Wasikowska. That flick looks pretty amazing, too. Anyways, I didn't quote any of his lines, but they are great! In spite of his character being the most stereotypical and flat in the entire story, he nonchalantly delivers witty lines that generate laughs when they are needed to get away from Frances's anxiety and stress. 

Frances Ha is most conveniently available on Netflix, so if you've got 90 minutes to spare... Prioritize this. 

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

It wasn't an illusion. This book was short yet it was one of the sweetest and the saddest ones I've read. For me, it was the style that truly moved me. Certain words and the tone that was used. The narrative looked through what I was feeling and it directly confirmed what I was thinking; I hope you are following me.

Adolescence

Friends

Girls

Sex

Intellect

Books

Age

Lost

Life

Suicides

Reflection

Clique

Peers

Influences

Go over all of this in detail with Tony Webster, the protagonist. I had to use the dictionary several times to get through the book, and that means that Barnes's diction is pretty old-fashioned and specific.



Here are some excerpts from the book worth typing out (according to me anyways, haha):

pg 10 -- Yes, of course we were pretentious – what else is youth for? We used terms like ‘Weltanschuung’ and ‘Sturm und Drang’, enjoyed saying ‘That’s philosophically self-evident’, and assured one another that the imagination’s first duty was to be transgressive. Our parents saw things differently, picturing their children as innocents suddenly exposed to noxious influence. So Colin’s mother referred to me as his ‘dark angel’; my father blamed Alex when he found me reading The Communist Manifesto; Colin was fingered by Alex’s parents when they caught him with a hard-boiled American crime novel. And so on. It was the same with sex. Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behavior of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience.

Pg 103 – Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn’t be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that’s something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we’re just stuck with what we’ve got. We’re on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn’t it? And also – if this isn’t too grand a word – our tragedy.


  Big thanks and love to Kathy who lent me the book!  

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THE SPITEFUL CHANT by KENDRICK LAMAR ft. SCHOOLBOY Q

SWIMMING POOL (DRANK) by KENDRICK LAMAR

Been fadin' for too many nights in a row.

Recovery day today.

Started at Tim Hortons for a bagel with cream cheese

Hopped to Starbucks to flash my poor gold card for ma grande dark

Too lazy to shower

Hop to Jericho

Beach and tan and just living the Vancity life-

Moving again soon.

Wish me luck. 

Pray for only the Lord will help poor souls out from abyss.

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$$$$ I NEED CASH $$$$ FOR THESE $$$$

FOUND A NEW SITE..... WWW.FAKETOKYO.COM
I WENT GAGA ON AN ONLINE SHOP WHERE LANGUAGE (AND CURRENCY WAS TOTALLY A BARRIER).
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---------remember that I have a huge soft spot for hideous things.....

This ain't too hideous. It's actually really nice. Especially the super cropped back !! AND GUESS WHAT !? It's unisex, too !!!!!!!!! *__*v

I don't know if I like his hair more than his skirt, or the actual jacket, or.. Yeah you get my gist. THIS IS SO EPIC MY EYES ARE HAVING A FIT. You know what also gives you a fit !? TRY CHANGING THESE PRICES to a currency you understand. You'd be falling off your chair by now. Chiching, bye-bye ~

Yes, I just can't get enough of the Olsen twins. They provide me with the thrill of unaffordablehandbags, affordable (so tempting) shades, and the cheap (OMG HOW AND WHY DO I NOT HAVE A TEE ALREADY !??!) StyleMint shirts. Here is the selection of shades from their luxury line, The Row, that I like from Net-A-Porter: (probably forever)

* M A I S O N M A R T I N M A R G I E L A *

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So please shop now and max out your credit card at the following e-business sites:
WWW.FAKETOKYO.COM
WWW.SSENSE.COM
WWW.NET-A-PORTER.COM

And because I'm on a picture uploading roll, here are two girls you can analyze. Their ensembles are so much fun and edgy while playing on the high fashion (ish) grounds. Those Prada shoes.... to KILL SOMEONE for. Droooooooooooooooooool-

hair therapy for the bleh-

I was feeling like poop these days -- and pretty much still am -- so I decided to go ahead and get my hair done. Do her up. So does the blonde (or white, whatever) work on Asians ? Your call.

The process of double bleaching, treatment, toner, then again treatment !! At the Aveda Institute salon in Gastown, Vancouver.

Dinner at Well Tea in Downtown with Justin after-

The few accessible pics that happen to be few of my favourites with my darlings:

Peace. Imma gonna read and move to the fictionland-

Cute or Just No ?

So I'm just casually clicking links from one Japanese boutique's site to another.. and from the boutique people's blogs to another..... lalallalala. Casually. I mean, I don't even understand Japanese.. and I came across this mind-blowing boutique called SPANK. Like where are these people from !? Yes, Tokyo. But what about their brainwaves !??!!!?!??! SO EXTREMEEEE. I love. You can tell. So then I came across these images of little sundresses:

So those designs are obviously sold exclusively at SPANK, the boutique, and are from Maga's blog. These are really interesting to me, because I have all the Barbie fabric they used at home... why and how !? They are my favourite Barbie BED SHEETS !!!!!!! I'M NOT JOKING. So one day, if you know how to work the sewing machine, give me a ring ! We can tear apart my Barbie bedsheets and make 'em into splendid mini dresses. Let's just pair them with like everything else PASTEL and look... good ? I'm half fascinated and half vomiting here. HAHA. But gotta give credits to ppl living true to their colours !! :) :) :)

SPANK's official website
SPANK's Maga's blog (where the dresses are from)
SPANK's (owner, I think) Tavuchi's blog - Visit this to just get a better idea of Spank's style + culture !!

Talking about SPANK this whole time totally reminded me of that Flash game from WAY BACK WHEN... SPANK THE MONKEY !!!!! Have you guys ever played it !??! I used to love it... Addictinggames was the best- I'll link you, actually. We can drown in nostalgia, hehehehehe.

PLAY SPANK THE MONKEY

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SWASH bucklin'

Recently going over a few files, I came across Swash's spring summer 2010 lookbook. Swash is a small thing not really well known over here in North America. Based in London, it is a fashion partnership between Sarah Swash and Toshio Yamanaka who both studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Every collection that they come out with is a brilliant mix of patterns and prints and quite heavily Japanese-inspired, though it pulls off the total British vibe. That's what makes Swash breathtaking, in my opinion anyways.

Swash's Spring Summer 2010 Lookbook

Yamanaka had also completed various courses in technical fashion design and trained as a pattern cutter at Kingston University and the London College of Fashion. His technicality totally shows through and maybe this is why they can also construct successful menswear accessories. I personally love their BIG bags that seem to be so big that you can probs fit your whole life in it. Hehe.

Swash grew in Japan then won lots of awards in Europe. What we want is for them to branch out into North America, and for that to happen... North Americans should start opening up to a stronger silhouette, funkier architecture, and anything goes prints. Let's have more fun with our clothes, shall we ?

Swash's scarf designs Spring Summer 2011

All about animals, dogs, zebras, slinkys, giraffes, basically anything goes. Not just the animal prints, but also the animal HEADS. These are scarf designs, but they design beautiful clothes that include turbans, wide-legged jumpsuits, maxis, draperies, leggings, and even to simple tees. Such an eclectic mix of character and vitality !!! LOVE !!!!!!

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