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Take a High Def, Guided Tour of Pompeii
Open Culture: “If you want to understand ancient Rome, its architecture, its history, the sprawl of the Roman Empire, you’ve got to go Rome.” So says archaeologist Darius Arya in the video above, making a fair, if obvious, point. “But you also have to go to the Vesuvian cities”: that is, the settlements located near the volcano Mount Vesuvius on the Gulf of Naples. “You have to go to Herculaneum. You must go to Pompeii. Not just because they’re famous, but because of the level of preservation.” This preservation was a side effect of the explosion of Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed all life in Herculaneum and Pompeii, but also kept the basic structures of both cities intact; visiting either one today allows us to “get immersed in the world of the Romans.” It is in Pompeii that the video’s creator Manuel Bravo(previously featured here on Open Culture for his explanations of the Great Pyramids of Giza and Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence) immerses not just himself but also us in that world…”
What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.
Washington Post [and free link] – See how fonts change the way you read and write….You make font choices every day. You pick type designs each time you use a word processor, read an e-book, send an email, prepare a presentation, craft a wedding invite and make an Instagram story. It might seem like just a question of style, but research reveals fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.
Fonts are “the clothes that words wear,” said early 20th-century editor Beatrice Warde. They also embody style, emotion and authority. Like a villain’s costume in a movie, they quietly tell part of the story. Microsoft recently replaced its default Office font of 15 years, Calibri, with one called Aptos that it says has a bit more “warmth.”
