Typography Tips

Web typography tips covering design fundamentals and more advanced editorial design and performance techniques

Variable Fonts: opening the door to a whole new typography

5 May, 2019

I’ve made a few mentions about variable fonts over the past weeks, and it’s high time I explain myself—and them—because...

26 Apr, 2019

I was recently extended the honor of participating in the W3C Web Fonts Working Group as an Invited Expert. The...

19 Apr, 2019

As I’m sure many of you do, I read a fair amount on the subject of web typography, performance, and...

12 Apr, 2019

My new talk is about using some new developments in CSS and variable fonts to rethink how we create typographic...

5 Apr, 2019

This week I thought I’d go over something I see often overlooked on web projects, leading to a lot of...

29 Mar, 2019

This week I’d like to explore something perhaps a bit whimsical, but nonetheless something with a clear place in design...

22 Mar, 2019

I wrote about the basics of typesetting a paragraph on the web a few weeks ago, and focused on the...

19 Mar, 2019

Ink and blood run thick in the streets when typographers debate typographic scale. Much of both have been spilled fighting...

8 Mar, 2019

I’d like to take a little time to talk about the various units of measure we have at our disposal,...

2 Mar, 2019

Now that I’ve got a couple issues out, I wanted to return to some typographic fundamentals—and I can’t think of...

22 Feb, 2019

A ‘drop cap’ or ‘initial’ is a specifically-styled first letter of a block of text that is usually larger and...

15 Feb, 2019

Seeing as this is the very first issue, I didn’t want to start with something too complicated—at the same time...