Part 7: The reader’s right—preferences and light modes
7 Jul, 2020
There are a couple of things I’d like to show you this week. One is a relatively small but important...
Typography Tips
Web typography tips covering design fundamentals and more advanced editorial design and performance techniques
Part 6: On the nature of ‘book’-ishness
29 May, 2020
This week is one I’ve been awaiting for quite some time. Really since before I even started this process. It’s...
Part 5: Dynamic Typography Redux: clamp() on it
18 May, 2020
This week has a big update to the typographic scaling that features some very new CSS about which I’m pretty...
Part 4: Fixing FOUT with font loading & fallback tuning
11 May, 2020
Last week we added web fonts to our project—both static and variable versions. This week we’re going to add font...
Part 3: Adding web fonts—giving voice to our words
4 May, 2020
This is a big week for the project. While it was an important step last week to establish some basic...
Part 2: Making the typography responsive and laying foundations for more to come
27 Apr, 2020
The feedback I’ve received over the past week has been amazing, and matches my own excitement about this project. I’ve...
Landing the whale: making a book on the web, part 1
20 Apr, 2020
I don’t know when it was I started using the text of Moby Dick in my workshops and talks. Likely...
Swiss inspiration & morning rituals observed
10 Apr, 2020
This week’s issue took a bit of a meander. I started thinking I might make another Google Fonts API tutorial....
Masks, perspective, and pattern
3 Apr, 2020
Inspiration has struck yet again in the form of an email from International Poster Gallery in Boston. I love vintage...
Skewed, rotated, and styled
27 Mar, 2020
Once again this week there were a few different threads coming together to inspire this issue. I’m continuing to explore...
Outlines and overprints
16 Mar, 2020
A few things coalesced to inspire the issue this week, and they bring us back to exploring some beautiful cover...
Introducing VariableFonts.io
6 Mar, 2020
This week marks the launch of a project nearly a year in the making. Or at least it’s been almost...
Figure/ground composition with text, image, and color
29 Feb, 2020
This week we’re going to dig in to more text effects. In keeping with the idea of exploring more editorial...
Text & image, interplay & animation
7 Feb, 2020
Following on from last week’s issue (and inspired a bit by receiving the latest Type Directors Club annual in the...
Glyphs as graphics: make your headlines hit harder
31 Jan, 2020
When looking through some vintage posters on the International Poster Gallery’s site not long ago I was really struck by...
Conjuring up a better numbered list
22 Nov, 2019
One thing I’ve ended up doing on several projects lately—including my own site—is to style ordered (and unordered) lists with...
Variable Fonts: What web authors need to know
27 Oct, 2019
Last week I wrote a bit (well, a lot) about what the web wants from type designers, foundries, and providers...
What the web wants
18 Oct, 2019
[Spoiler alert: it’s you, and your variable fonts] I wrote a bit about this in my ATypI wrap-up, but felt...