Scripts are usually classified by what a single character represents: a sound, a syllable, a consonant, or a whole word. Almost every design choice below follows from that decision. Here…
What makes a canal worth travelling is that it goes somewhere slowly and levelly, through country that roads avoid. Here are fifteen worth a few days.
1. The Canal du…
The difference between a preserved windmill and a working one is the noise. Inside a mill under sail, the whole building shakes, the gears roar and flour comes out warm.…
The engineering logic is entirely practical, and once you know it the buildings stop looking quaint and start looking sensible. Here are eleven still standing.
1. The Kapellbrucke, Lucerne, Switzerland…
The pattern is consistent: name the colour after the thing, then keep the name long after nobody uses the thing. Here are fifteen.
1. Maroon
From the French for chestnut,…
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Which side of the road a country drives on feels like an arbitrary coin flip that happened somewhere in the past. It is not. The division maps almost perfectly…