This is a response to Miriam Suzanne’s excellent post on Reimagining Fluid Typography. She poses lots of really interesting questions, some of which I disagree with, but most of all they got me thinking… and writing.
I read a couple of posts about AI recently, which seemed to hold opposing ideas, but I agreed with them both to some extent. I’m conflicted, but what I do know is that I find LLMs useful on occasion, but every time I use one I die a little inside.
In Jeremy’s recent post, “The web on mobile”, he bemoans the mobile web experience. I had some further thoughts, including: if web apps are to compete with native apps in the affections of users, then they need to be equivalent.
I don’t know if it’s just me, or if something’s happened in the last few months, but I keep seeing faux bolds everywhere. The fix is tiny and simple, although frankly the mistake is pretty basic – there’s no excuse for it being so prevalent.
The short answer is: quite a lot. The long answer covers some accessibility issues, some new CSS, some slightly older CSS, some high level colour theory, a bit about SVGs, and some typography finessing; all of which I’ll cover in this post.