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The art and technique of arranging type: fonts, pairings, and hierarchy

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Readability First: How to Pick Fonts People Can Actually Read
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Readability First: How to Pick Fonts People Can Actually Read

#fonts #typography #webdev #a11y
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We built FontKind to see which fonts real websites load together
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We built FontKind to see which fonts real websites load together

#data #typography #design
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We built FontForThat: find free font alternatives and try them with your own text
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We built FontForThat: find free font alternatives and try them with your own text

#showdev #css #typography #design
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A 5.86 MB font sat in my app for three months. No CSS rule ever referenced it.
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A 5.86 MB font sat in my app for three months. No CSS rule ever referenced it.

#css #performance #webdev #typography
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Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji
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Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji

#javascript #intl #unicode #typography
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I counted the fonts on 632 receipts. The most popular one is a barcode.
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I counted the fonts on 632 receipts. The most popular one is a barcode.

#css #typography #webdev #javascript
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Building an Arabic calligraphy generator with zero dependencies: fonts, SVG embedding and a 40-line PDF writer
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Building an Arabic calligraphy generator with zero dependencies: fonts, SVG embedding and a 40-line PDF writer

#javascript #webdev #typography #i18n
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Kern: exploring variable fonts and generating fluid type
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Kern: exploring variable fonts and generating fluid type

#css #typography #webdev #design
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How Fancy Letters Really Work: A Developer's Tour of Unicode's Hidden Alphabets
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How Fancy Letters Really Work: A Developer's Tour of Unicode's Hidden Alphabets

#unicode #javascript #webdev #typography
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Preserving Global Cultural Heritage: The World's Largest Multilingual Open Typography Archives on GitHub & GitLab
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Preserving Global Cultural Heritage: The World's Largest Multilingual Open Typography Archives on GitHub & GitLab

#opensource #webdev #typography #linux
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Aesthetic Fonts and Text Styles: What Actually Works in Bios, Captions and Chats
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Aesthetic Fonts and Text Styles: What Actually Works in Bios, Captions and Chats

#fonts #unicode #typography #socialmedia
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How 'fancy fonts' actually work: Unicode look-alike characters, explained
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How 'fancy fonts' actually work: Unicode look-alike characters, explained

#webdev #unicode #typography #beginners
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Halftone type in WebGL, one draw call per headline
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Halftone type in WebGL, one draw call per headline

#webgl #typography #performance #javascript
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Stop asking the image model to spell: generate the picture, set the words
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Stop asking the image model to spell: generate the picture, set the words

#ai #design #typography #tutorial
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Why Nastaliq Urdu Text Breaks on the Web — and Practical Fixes for Developers
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Why Nastaliq Urdu Text Breaks on the Web — and Practical Fixes for Developers

#webdev #css #unicode #typography
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