Better typography with text-wrap pretty | WebKit
Everything you ever wanted to know about text-wrap: pretty in CSS.
Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer | Web Directions
John has come to the same conclusion as Richard with regards to font embedding. In short, the font foundries are missing a huge revenue stream. They could be offering fonts on a per-domain basis (a la Google Maps or any other third-party API). Rem…
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Introducing TODS – a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
This is a very handy piece of work by Rich:
The idea is to set sensible typographic defaults for use on prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType. The main principle is that it can be used as starting point for all projects, so doesn’t include design-specific aspects such as font choice, type scale or layout (including how you might like to set the line-length).
Modern Font Stacks
This is handy—a collection of font stacks using system fonts. You can see which ones are currently installed on your machine too.
The most performant web font is no web font.
Container Queries and Typography
I feel like we need a name for this era, when CSS started getting real good.
I think this is what I’ve been calling declarative design.
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Sass and clamp
Worst buddy movie ever.
Utopia
Why do I like fluid responsive typography? Let me count the ways…
An nth-letter selector in CSS
The latest installment in the long tradition of calling for this pseudo-element.
Tweaking navigation sizing
Sometimes a consistent interface doesn’t reflect the reality of usage.
Variable fonts
The future of typography is here.