This is utterly fascinating and a thing of absolute typographic beauty: https://storiedcolors.com
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Richard Rutter
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Cofounder of Clearleft, author of Web Typography book, designer of digital things, loves a bit of service design, cyclist. Known elsewhere as @clagnut.
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It was my Dad’s funeral yesterday. I don’t know why, but I felt the need to post the eulogy I gave. Maybe I thought he deserved some kind of public recognition – he was a lovely person and a great friend to many.
In countries like Australia, public events open by acknowledging the indigenous peoples of the land.
Similarly, a law should be passed so that anyone espousing the virtues of AI should begin by acknowledging the copyrighted material stolen and the wilful damage to the environment (and preferably the now jobless too).
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I’ll run along the cowpaths that have been paved and spend time with the new and shiny things that bring expressiveness, fine detail, responsiveness, consistency and efficiency to your work: variable fonts in all their glory, typographic units, drop-caps, hanging punctuation, `text-box-trim`, container-aware fonts and fluid type.
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@behdad I'd definitely agree that adoption of VF is wide enough to NOT consider it a failure. Every time I give a talk about web typography I'll bang on about variable fonts (and OpentType features for that matter).
Web browsers have excellent support - and were arguably the first bits of software to do so outside of type design tooling. Which is more than you can say for Keynote or any other Apple software, whose support is woeful outside of named instances.
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One thing I didn't explicitly say is that my focus in this article was on European writing systems.
As @ri pointed out privately, I could have also mentioned https://www.w3.org/TR/predefined-counter-styles/ as a resource for non-English content authors, as well as https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical being of interest to the many users of vertically-set text.
#i18n #css
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@piccalilli@front-end.social I'm definitely going to bad at it. I don't even know what colours they are i the first place! 🤩
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"Orangutan covered in coconuts"
In this episode we talk about how AI coding tools fit into their workflows at @Clearleft@mastodon.social and Stuff & Nonsense. Then, Andy explains how he used AI to help him build Sho!io, his new app for sharing designs.
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If you've no idea what font-size-adjust does, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/font-size-adjust
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Anyone here have a strong opinion one way or the other about Payload CMS? (https://payloadcms.com/)
The whole React / Node.js aspect doesn't fill me with joy or confidence, but maybe i'm wrong?
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@sturobson@front-end.social Wow. i'd just got to writing the bit of my Web Day Out talk where I was going to skip over fluid type and point to previous talks, but now I'm not so sure...
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@paddyduke@mastodon.social @sturobson@front-end.social yeah that would be good. Of course there's no actual breakpoints in the way Utopia works, just clamps at the extremes, with the main premise enabling different scales at different viewports (or containers). There's other benefits too IMO, with the common language that can be shared for type size and spacing btw designer and developer.