The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing illustrative project by Brooklyn based typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Hische states:
Each day (or at least each work day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.
Hische posts examples of each drop cap in use and licenses them for free use under a Creative Commons license.
The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:
![AIGA [Extreme Detail]](/assets/whats_the_harm_nano.png)
AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…
![Kind of Bloop [Detail]](/assets/kind_of_sued_nano.png)
In 2009, Andy Baio - a writer and entrepreneur who helped build Kickstarter - ate his own dog food and launched a Kickstarter project called 'Kind of Bloop'. The idea was elegant, and one we immediately fell in love with…
![Color [Detail]](/assets/color_nano.png)
As the old saying goes, "You only get one chance to make a first impression." Launched amid much fanfare late last week, Color is, apparently, "a miraculous application," and one of the first of many, new life-changing applications for the 'Post-PC World' in which we now live. It's also guilty of a not insubstantial degree of hyperbole…
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@standardistas: Thanks to the dozens who pointed out that the pile of poo was in Unicode since 6.0. Thank goodness this wasn't an exam question.