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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...
[Spoiler alert: it’s you, and your variable fonts]
I wrote a bit about this in my ATypI wrap-up, but felt this was important enough to revisit. While there are certainly reasons for type designers and foundries to be circumspect about...
I get asked every so often about where to start learning the basics of typography: what it is, how it works, terminology, and so on. I wrote a bit...
I’ve been spending some time looking at some typography annuals, inspired by Aga Naplocha’s fantastic talk at Finch Front-End in Edinburgh, Scotland earlier this week. She was showing some fantastic design ideas based on different artistic styles and periods...
While I was at ATypI Tokyo a couple weeks ago, Google had some big announcements (I covered those a bit last week). The new version of their API was particularly great to hear, as this marks the first...
There’s no way to adequately sum up what a magical week this has been. A combination of a completely new place and cultural experience, reuniting with a community of friends I only see once or twice a year, and dozens...
I’ve just come back from An Event Apart in Chicago, where I was lucky enough to see a whole lot of wonderful talks. Two that really struck me were from Marcy Sutton on modern CSS and accessibility, and Val...
I’ve been working for a long time to teach graphic designers how much they can do typographically on the web. An overwhelming amount of the time, the reaction is something like ‘if we can’t control all of these things, why...