Brian Koberlein
What a beautiful website!
The Futures of Typography
A wonderfully thoughtful piece from Robin, ranging from the printing technologies of the 15th century right up to the latest web technologies. It’s got all my favourite things in there: typography, digital preservation, and service workers. Marvellous!
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Modern Font Stacks
This is handy—a collection of font stacks using system fonts. You can see which ones are currently installed on your machine too.
The most performant web font is no web font.
Bunny Fonts | Explore Faster & GDPR friendly Fonts
A drop-in replacement for Google Fonts without the tracking …but really, you should be self-hosting your font files.
Tim Brown: CSS forces
Some interesting thoughts from Tim here. What if CSS could “displace” design decisions from one area to another?
For example, a flexible line spacing value in one container could influence margins that surround the text block. That change in spaciousness may mean that nearby headings need size or spacing adjustments to stay feeling connected.
This feels like the complete opposite way that most people approach design systems—modular, componentised, and discrete—but very in-line with the way that CSS has been designed—interconnected, relational and cascading.
Related posts
Utopia
Why do I like fluid responsive typography? Let me count the ways…
An nth-letter selector in CSS
The latest installment in the long tradition of calling for this pseudo-element.
The typography of a web book
The font choices for Resilient Web Design.
Declarative design
Defining the inputs instead of trying to control the outputs.
Timelines of the web
The World Wide Web is a mashup.