"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."
Google Fonts only lets you download .ttf files meaning that if you want to self-host your fonts (and you should), you have to first convert them to .woff2 files.
Luckily this tool has been online for over a decade, doing what Google Fonts should be doing by default.
This is absolutely wonderful!
There’s deep dives and then there’s Marcin’s deeeeeeep dives. Sit back and enjoy this wholesome detective work, all beautifully presented with lovely interactive elements.
This is what the web is for!
Everyone’s raving about this great talk by Marcin, and rightly so!
Like a little mini Utopia:
Handy little tool for calculating viewport-based clamped values.
A typeface co-designed with a tree over the course of five years.
Yes, a tree.
Occlusion Grotesque is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree. As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually.
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
For some reason, Google Fonts only provides .ttf files if you’re self-hosting. I don’t know why.
The font choices for Resilient Web Design.
Sometimes a consistent interface doesn’t reflect the reality of usage.
The latest installment in the long tradition of calling for this pseudo-element.