There are a couple of things I’d like to show you this week. One is a relatively small but important step forward for the book project: supporting light modes (with user preference setting). The other is more important to me...
This week is one I’ve been awaiting for quite some time. Really since before I even started this process. It’s also the first time I’m posting something that I know is broken in a lot of browsers. But where it...
This week has a big update to the typographic scaling that features some very new CSS about which I’m pretty excited. It’s featuring a new way of defining low, scaling, and high values for things like font-size that removes a...
Last week we added web fonts to our project—both static and variable versions. This week we’re going to add font loading management and style our fallback fonts. I first wrote about some of these ideas and techniques back in 2011...
This is a big week for the project. While it was an important step last week to establish some basic responsiveness, we couldn’t really nail down the typography until we added the typeface. Too many aspects of the feel, proportions...
The feedback I’ve received over the past week has been amazing, and matches my own excitement about this project. I’ve spent a lot of time researching, writing, and teaching about creating better typography for reading on digital devices over the...
I don’t know when it was I started using the text of Moby Dick in my workshops and talks. Likely it dates back to some of my earliest explorations of web typography. Since it’s out of copyright, it’s one those...
This week’s issue took a bit of a meander. I started thinking I might make another Google Fonts API tutorial. But part way through that I got another email from International Poster Gallery celebrating the work of Swiss designer Herbert...
Inspiration has struck yet again in the form of an email from International Poster Gallery in Boston. I love vintage travel posters, and this Rio advertisement by Joa circa 1950 really grabbed me. The big graphic use of type as...
Once again this week there were a few different threads coming together to inspire this issue. I’m continuing to explore amazing examples of graphic design in the form of publication covers and posters, and focusing on how we can achieve...
A few things coalesced to inspire the issue this week, and they bring us back to exploring some beautiful cover designs dating from the early 1960’s. I recently picked up Impact 1.0 and Impact 2.0 from Unit Editions, each filled...
This week we’re going to dig in to more text effects. In keeping with the idea of exploring more editorial design without requiring lots of custom code, this issue’s experiment could certainly be set up in a content management system...
Following on from last week’s issue (and inspired a bit by receiving the latest Type Directors Club annual in the post), I spent some more time looking at vintage posters. The spark came about when I went looking through the...
When looking through some vintage posters on the International Poster Gallery’s site not long ago I was really struck by this work by Austrian painter and poster artist Hans Fabigan and another one by an unknown artist that use...
One thing I’ve ended up doing on several projects lately—including my own site—is to style ordered (and unordered) lists with a slightly different approach than in the past. It’s always been frustrating that by default you can’t style the numbers...
Last week I wrote a bit (well, a lot) about what the web wants from type designers, foundries, and providers when it comes to variable fonts. This week I’d like to talk about how we teach the web community how...