I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and …
If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, really really like them. So while I am super excited about how well …
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is “snarky” or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that …
Fonts are vector. Vector art with more points makes for larger files than vector art with fewer points. Custom fonts are downloaded. So, fonts with less points in their vector art are smaller. That’s the theory anyway. Shall we see …
There have been some interesting, boundary-pushing typography-related experiments lately. I was trying to think of a joke like “somethings in the descenders” but I just can’t find something that will stand on its own leg without being easy to counter.…
I came across this update from Scott Kellum’s and Sal Hernandez’s project Typetura via my Medium feed this morning, and what a delight?!…
I’m very glad a guide for these features exists because we already know there are so many weird things that variable fonts can do — well done, Tunghsiao Liu!
There are quite a few possible values for font-feature-settings, like, …
Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text …
This is a wondrous little project by Wenting Zhang that showcases a series of variable fonts and lets you manipulate their settings to see the results. It’s interesting that there’s so many tools like this that have been released over …
I don’t think this is an epidemic or anything, but I’ve seen it done a few times and even advocated for. This is what I mean……
