{"id":14,"date":"2010-03-16T03:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-03-16T04:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:51:57","slug":"the-tradition-of-the-stretched-numbers-in-appointment-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/the-tradition-of-the-stretched-numbers-in-appointment-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The tradition of the stretched numbers in appointment books"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/typography-appointment-book.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21 \" title=\"typography-appointment-book\" src=\"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/typography-appointment-book.gif\" alt=\"appointment book typography\" width=\"362\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/typography-appointment-book.gif 362w, https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/typography-appointment-book-300x184.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which do you find easier to read?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered why salon appointment books always use such bad stretched numbers for the hours column.  For someone interested in typography and graphic design it drives me crazy.  I guess it must have started as a way to keep the columns narrow to fit as much on the page as possible, but it must only save a couple of pixels.<\/p>\n<p>You end up with a much more legible and aesthetic result if you just keep the font&#8217;s proportions and make the numbers a little shorter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those strange traditions, that I think it&#8217;s time to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered why salon appointment books always use such bad stretched numbers for the hours column. For someone interested in typography and graphic design it drives me crazy. I guess it must have started as a way to keep the columns narrow to fit as much on the page as possible, but it must &#8230; <a title=\"The tradition of the stretched numbers in appointment books\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/the-tradition-of-the-stretched-numbers-in-appointment-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The tradition of the stretched numbers in appointment books\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,8,7],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appointment","tag-books","tag-salons","tag-typography","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}