An enthusiasm by Richard Rutter

Hello. I’m Richard, a designer, author and speaker living by the sea in Brighton, UK. I’m co-founder of Clearleft, a digital design consultancy.

I love all things to do with human-centred design, typography, music and cycling. I occasionally write about them here.

Latest Posts

On the road to recovery

I was back in hospital today. I needed an echocardiogram to check my heart was OK and that my lungs were clear of blood clots. It was, and they are, so all good. This is the account – primarily for future me – of how I ended up there.

18th November 2024
The problem with superscripts and subscripts

A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it.

25th September 2024
Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet

Introducing a new open source web typography project. The idea is to have a default CSS file to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose text, making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.

22nd September 2024
Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances)

When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text in CSS? To do so makes assumptions that don’t necessarily hold up, and there are more appropriate units to use. Also: was it my fault?

14th June 2024
A modern approach to browser support

Recently we realised Clearleft didn’t have a written browser support policy. Rather than fixating on specific browsers, we needed to a policy that considered capabilities and outcomes for users. It turns out there’s an initiative for that.

4th June 2024